AEONICA MONUMENTARIUM

It seems that Aeonica is a sort of newage phylosophical movement whose scope is building what they call "a parallel reality". This fits very well into Senmuth's mystic world and I have few doubts that the album title isn't related to it.

From a musical perspective this is very similar in the concept and in the mood to "Internal Images": A list of instrumental tracks with an ethnic flavour quite close to new age, each of them inspired by a specific place or monument or ruin around the world.

The first thing that I have noticed is on "Rakchi", the second track. The main theme is backed by the guitar which uses a low-pitch but less distorted than how it's usual on the industrial tracks. Considering that this use of guitar is one of the causes of what I call "Industrial Noise", what we hear in this context is surel not noise. It just makes it sound a bit more powerful. This track has those bad "randomic" changes of pitch, but it fades into "Tolmens Of Caucasus" with a great guitar solo. (I think Tolmens is a mistyping for Dolmens). The acoustic guitar is then back after being missed from the last two albums.

Another good track containing a nice guitar part is "Ziqqurat", but also this has the defect of the randomic pitch changes which have the effect or interrupting the melodic line too suddenly. I mean the problem with those "jumps" is that they seems to not be following any rule so they can't be "anticipated" by the listener's mind. Sometimes it's good, too much is bad.

Another interesting track is "Qenko". A sort of Bolero mainly made of chords alternated to percussions. Also this track suffers of the unstructured pitch changes.

"Petra" is different. I think the music reflects the sense of wonder caused by that famous dead city in the desert, and the music has a Krautrock flavour. The best track of the album.

A track which reminds directly to TD of late 80s is "Saksaywaman". A 4 stars track.

Finally, 13.0.0.0.0 seems to be a Babilonese arithmetical notation or something like this. The nice thing is that the track is exactly 13:00 minutes long.

An average good album with some weaker moments that don't allow it to gain the 4th star.