Larva 108: "99​.​09 – Inside the stones" (grey007) digipack CD

Larva 108: "99​.​09 – Inside the stones" (grey007)
Pro CD, 4 page digipack with 8 page booklet


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Tracklist : La pioggia e le lumache | Larva 62 | Z-1 | Snowstorm and the number 8 | Egli risale il ruscello | Larva P11 | Larva 57 | Larva 6 XM | Radice Nebbia Gole | Il campo delle lumache | Larva 13 | Larva 2 – XM |
Sale notes :“99.09 Inside the stones” is a collection of the most significant tracks made by LARVA 108 during the first 10 years. 12 songs for 60 minutes. A sountrack for walking alone through a winter snowstorm or between the trees during a grey day of november. Experimental, electronica, drones creates organic gloomy atmospheres.


DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST: 
99.09 Inside The Stones is a collection of mysterious twilight dronescapes and post-industrial darkness from this Italian project, who appears here with their first official release after years of surreptitious recording sessions. The music of Larva 108 is very dark and very abstract, sometimes evoking snow-covered landscapes and frozen cloud formations, at other times resembling the cries of virulent hard drive demons and failing machinery. I suspect that Coil was a major influence on these works, but Larva 108 heads into a heavier, more distorted sound, with glimpses of almost metallic guitar drone. The hour long album begins with the random street noise and heavy rainfall of "La Pioggia E Le Lumache", a canvas of field recordings that becomes painted with haunting processed guitar and crushing, heavily distorted synth-like bass. The slow, glitchy, skittering electronic rhythms that emerge have the feel of dark 80's soundtrack music as translated by a dubstep producer, dark and heavy and very dramatic. "Larva 62" introduces a muffled, subterranean heartbeat-like rhythm as it's own heavily distorted melody slowly fades into view, building into a tangle of melodic drone, crushing distortion and looped underwater synths. A minimal wintry fuzzscape of swelling static and rhythmic rumblings appears on "Z-1", followed with "Snowstorm And Number 8"'s layered orchestral drone that unfolds over repetitive metallic loops and dub-style echoes, later shifting into a massive rumbling cosmic fog. "Egli Risale Il Ruscello" is one of the harsher tracks here, with heavily flanged drones, running water and piercing electronic skree woven into disquieting electronica. There's more creepy ambience on "P11", delayed vocals and deep sub-earth dark ambience forming into a nightmarish dubdrift, and "Larva 57" has church choirs echoing through black monstrous throb and sheets of crumbling, corrosive distortion. There's crushing industrial dirges, and gorgeously bleak tableaus of down tuned distorted guitar and kosimiche drones, sometimes resembling the guitar-generated dark ambience of MGR, heavy and ominous riffage drifting high above skittery abstract rhythms and shadowy low end thrum. The last song even has massive doom-laden heaviness rising towards the end, an almost Nadja-like distorted noisy majesty closing this album out, ending it with a mournful glare of backwards melody, fuzz, and rumbling noise. Comes in a digipack with an eight page booklet of liner notes, released in a limited edition of 500. © CRUCIAL BLAST