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Frozen Bloom

by Olhava

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glentruax
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glentruax I came for the drone, and I got it. Beautiful as always - blackgaze forever. Favorite track: Frozen Bloom II.
Madrigal_hjalmar
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Madrigal_hjalmar The whole thing is awesome, but when Austin's characteristic melodies and pacings roll in I am instantly taken to the moon. Buy all of Olhava's catalogue, it is fantastic. Favorite track: Frozen Bloom I.
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distantstar So excited was I to find new Olhava in my feed, I hit play without reading the blurb or credits. Halfway thru track 1, I'm thinking, hmm, there's something Panopticonical going on here: distant echoes of "Pale Ghosts" and "A Superior Lament." By track 3: Ok, what's really going on here?! Austin Lunn is going on here. Olhava still sound fully like themselves, but it's a brilliant collaboration in which Olhava offer us beautiful vernal variations on Panopticon's transcendent autumnal elegies. Favorite track: Frozen Bloom I.
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Я здесь оставлю всё, мне лишнего не надо. Один остался и снова убегаю прочь от боли. Вернусь туда, где раз предавшего не ждут. Солнце мое, где мне найти приют? Ещё один год уходит. Улетают птицы с насиженных мест. Отравлен воздух. Куда ни сделай шаг, везде людей теряю. Склонюсь пред травой, лягу в свежераспаханном поле, Дай только воздухом надышаться. Дай напоследок побыть с тобою.
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Adrift 07:41
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Мы снов своих больные дети - Бежим к другим мирам. Но на пути обратном расставляем сети, Чтоб не вернуться больше никогда К своим мечтам. Укутан тайной, многолик тот мир, Что был вчера для нас загадкой. А я - вернуться рад туда, где средь обид Я счастлив был. Хотя бы миг Неповторимый пережить украдкой.
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Frozen Bloom is our fourth album where we took some different routes compositionally. Two of four tracks are traditionally storm-like blackgaze passages and another two are leaning towards more meditative drone experience.

It is about unfulfilled dreams. About how we sacrifice everything today for some abstract “tomorrow” which may never come. But tomorrow and yesterday don’t exist – only this very moment of static contemplation.

When winter is just starting to fade and give some space for a spring’s first steps, when first life starts to reappear and the very early flowers peek through the thawing soil a sudden shift in temperature can leave them petrified and frozen back again like being punished by the Queen of Fields. This statuesque dead beauty, being infinitely alive and dead at the same time is Frozen Bloom.

We got a chance to collaborate with A. Lunn (appearing courtesy of Bindrune records) who kindly agreed to record an electric guitar solo as well as acoustic parts and choral parts on Frozen Bloom I

credits

released April 2, 2021

Recording, mixing and mastering by Mihail Kurochkin
Cover art by Daniel Teisakowski (@daniel_tskwsk)
Guest electric guitar, acoustic guitar, square neck resonator guitar and choral vocals - A. Lunn (Appearing courtesy of Bindrune recordings)
Physical release via Avantgarde music
Cassette release by Slowsnow records

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