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Ka-Baalim & Bunk Data - The Insomniati: Two - When You Forget You're Dreaming And Never Wake Up

Ka-Baalim & Bunk Data - The Insomniati: Two - When You Forget You're Dreaming And Never Wake Up

Musician: Ka-Baalim
Album title: The Insomniati: Two - When You Forget You're Dreaming And Never Wake Up
Style: Dark Ambient, Experimental
Released: 2008
Country: US
Size MP3 version: 1865 mb
Size APE version: 1793 mb
Size WMA version: 1426 mb
Rating ✫: 4.9
Votes: 920
Format: WAV AUD DMF AAC MOD WMA AIFF
Genre: Electronic

Ka-Baalim & Bunk Data - The Insomniati: Two - When You Forget You're Dreaming And Never Wake Up


Tracklist Hide Credits

Part 1
1 The Distance Between Death And Dreams 8:39
2 The Last Thing I Would Ever Want To Do 7:05
3 The Red Queen 6:07
4 Forget Thyself 9:31
5 The Doings Of Me 7:05
6 Dreamspeak 5:35
Part 2
7 1,000 Miles (Phil Western Remix)
Remix – Phil Western
10:51
8 1,000 Mile Lap (LAP Remix)
Remix – LAP
2:25
Part 3
9 Six Hundred And Eleven 18:22

Notes

This release is dedicated to the memory of Matt Zaun, the unofficial fifth member of Ka-baalim. You are dearly missed.

Thanks to:

Source samples from “The Red Queen” were originally created as a part of the soundtrack for Jillia Pessenda’s play “Made in China”

Source samples for “dreamspeak” were unwittingly supplied by www.edentropy.blogspot.com

Some original material from “611” created by the fadladder project

Analog Drones courtesy of the Amanita Oscilator Box by Psychonautic Sonic Electronics and the Sloshbox ST by The Squarewave Parade

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Mr.Savik
The net label Dark Winter recently released a new collaboration between Ka-Baalim and Bunk Data, the second part in their Insomniati series. Part one has been reviewed here before and was a record that gripped me on a very personal level. I did not expect such a strong reaction this time around, but that doesn't mean that the second installment is any less terrifying... The central theme to "The Isomniati: Two - when you forget you're dreaming and never wake up" is love and loss, and dreaming of dying. The drawings of a woman sitting in a coffin and holding a shrivelled corpse speak for themselves. The album has been divided in three parts with the first six tracks and 45 minutes focussing on this theme. Ghostly drones and dark ambient interlaced with spoken pieces is again the style that is employed, but this time it is a woman reciting most of the pieces. Her cryptic texts are often abstract, but due to her delivery also horrifying. "When a moment, is a moment, within an option, I awake from my nightmare and don't feel quite so dead." Especially tracks like "The Red Queen" with its deep drones, or the gloomy "Forget Thyself", where minimalist drones are joined by a deep male voice that slowly and very loudly recites his texts, impressed me. The latter even managed to scare me the first time. "I say to the body, "my soul will have the hour of this afternoon with you, and I brought a large lunch, which I plan to eat, while sitting at the edge of your coffin." " The album reaches for even more abysmal territories with "The Doings Of Me" where our central figure seems to lose grip on reality more and more. She starts singing fragments of nursery rhymes, would like to lunch next to a coffin and ponders her own mortality. "Humpty Dumpty, building a wall Humpty Dumpty, forgot to fall" The second part of the album consists of two remixes of "Insomniati: One" , specifically of "One Thousand Miles To The Door", which was the track that impressed me most back then. Phil Western's ten minute remix stands out due to its rhythmic and hypnotising interpretation of this song. Still, I like it and the change of pace is nice. No, but then LAP, who in less than two-and-a-half minutes manages to portray the atmosphere of the original and, if at all possible, makes it even more claustrophobic. An upsetting intro is followed by the processed vocals of the original and it sounds as if the speaker is slowly falling through space. With a number of unsettling noises you are whipped into the last part of the album, an 18-minute improvisation session which is again mostly dark and is a collage of voices, drones, bells and other sounds. This album is quite diverse but to me does not appear incoherent. Even the rhythmical remix of Phil Western fits in. Again the ladies and gents behind these projects have managed to create an extraordinary and unsettling piece of music. Just as with the first part I feel that the addition of spoken pieces of text makes the album that much more gripping and scary. Especially considering its theme it gnawes at the edges of your sanity like some maniac, slowly pushing you towards the edge. Those into dark ambient and other dark and atmospheric music are recommended to download this album right away! And cheers to Dark Winter for yet another memorable record. - songsoverruins Originally written for the Dutch weblog IkEcht, English translation by the author.