Substratum, by Monocube

Substratum

by Monocube

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	1.	Sehnsucht 05:03
	2.	Prima Materia 08:24
	3.	Luft 08:23
	4.	Visiones V 07:23
	5.	The Opposite Of Nadir (feat. Antti Litmanen) 10:08
	6.	Opaque 10:44
	7.	Actio In Distans 06:04
	8.	Limen (feat. Visions) 08:22

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Monocube’s new album since 2016’s “The Rituals”, a suite of wide landscapes painted in modular synth and stringed instruments.
A spellbinding new album for Cyclic Law and Malignant Records, employing eight long-form pieces for the most expansive solo release by Monocube to date. Taking into account its haunting and elegiac quality - the result of no less than two years assiduous work it is elevated to the another level, presenting an analog purification of Monocube’s overtones.

Purposefully evoking the feelings which are usually avoided in more scholastic examples of dark and drone music, Monocube voices the soul, while improvising on modular synth and stringed instruments, intimates a transcendental quality and approaches to the shape and density, delicacy and relation to transient and everlasting subjects, reaching the depth that was not present before.

The outcome is considered as a reflection of non-verbal communication: from the flowing blossoms of Sehnsucht to the palsied depth of Prima Materia to the stirring crescendo of Luft and through the burned-out distortions of Visiones V to the 10 minute+ misty-eyed panorama of The Opposite Of Nadir following the helical torques and instilled eschatological atmosphere of Opaque, tempting the longing souls to the valerian vortex of Action In Distans and consummating with ultra-wide Limen. An alchemy of mysterious spirit.

The mixed media artwork employs analog techniques, as cameraless photography and illustrations, which spawn silhouettes and haunting figures, recurring entropic motifs, a transition into worlds within worlds, coaxed out of gelatine silver prints. Enchanting, often deeply mysterious and disquieted is the visual part of Substratum created by sukkeret.og.pepper studio in Berlin.

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released April 26, 2019

Released on CD by Malignant Records and Cyclic Law.
"The Opposite Of Nadir" feat. Antti Litmanen (Arktau Eos)
"Limen" feat. VIsions
Mastered by James Plotkin
Artwork by sukkeret.og.pepper studio.

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Monocube Berlin, Germany

MONOCUBE is an experimental dark ambient one man band.

discography

Impasse

Aug 2023
Unbound

Nov 2021
Kataplexis

May 2020
Contemplator Caeli

Jul 2019
NO

Mar 2019
Substratum

Apr 2019
Kalopsia

Nov 2018
The Rituals

Dec 2016
Visiones IV

Oct 2016
Blue Dusk /// Red Dawn

Dec 2014
Vibramina Maeroris

Feb 2010

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