Апорєа - На Рєкахъ Вавл҃нскыхъ album flac

this release is actually recorded at the end of 1985 and realized like a tape few months later, on 1996.

It's difficult to overstate how much of a joy this short album is. Orthodox Christian songs and chants combine with the sort of atmospherics one might expect out a tape on Nekrophile Records - lo-fi, ritualistic, post-industrial. There's nothing even slightly gimmicky about the combination, and the result is a cogent work of beauty that hints at having more to show than what it allows to be seen, a beauty that turns the mind inward towards contemplation.

Sometimes you instantly recognise a gem as soon as you find it. Or, better, as soon as IT finds you. And you bet it did, even if it took 27 years after its release (1988). I only remember experiencing such pleasant shock 20 years ago when discovering THE MOON LAY HIDDEN BENEATH A CLOUD. So, what have these guys from Yugoslavia/Skopje managed to release with this cassette? Nothing less than AIN SOPH-like ritualism at its best, accompanied by ZOVIET FRANCE-like experimentalism and byzantine chanting, all combined harmonically in a highly mesmerizing and authentic manner. After this, only silence among the filthy. ΑΓΧΙΒΑΣΙΗΝ.