Assimilating the Shadow

by Ricardo Donoso

Assimilating the Shadow cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 4 September 2012
  • Label: Denovali
  • Country: Brazil
  • Length: 1:09:41
  • Community rating: 3.38/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Brazilian-born, Boston-based composer delivers an intricate, highly cinematic exercise in modern electronic sequencing. The album draws heavy inspiration from the arpeggiated, sci-fi propulsion of 1970s Tangerine Dream, updating the classic Berlin School aesthetic with pristine, incredibly detailed contemporary sound design. It operates as a masterclass in building tension through shifting, polyrhythmic synthesizer loops and vast, ominous low-end drones.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, atmospheric, repetitive, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Overture (4:26)
  2. Chemical Structures (9:07)
  3. From Sterling to Snow (5:14)
  4. Reflection & Rotation (9:55)
  5. The Bow and the Lyre (8:27)
  6. Empathy Gap (3:00)
  7. Equivalence of the Thirteen (8:11)
  8. Probing (4:24)
  9. Shadow Aspect (7:51)
  10. Renunciation (9:03)

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