sunnuntai 23. elokuuta 2015

Mindworm Fields (28.08)



To celebrate the band's 10th anniversary, Somnam is releasing a follow-up to its 2007 Paradigms Recordings debut "Melancholy's Masquerade". The new album, titled "Mindworm Fields" is to be released on August 28, 2015 via Kello Neljän Levyt.

tracklist:
01. "Opening The Gate To The Outer Fields Of Obscurity"
02. "Deeper Surrealism"
03. "Insection Outlands"
04. "Mindworm Fields"
05. "Moonlight Silence"
06. "Mythological Creature Invasion"
07. "Closing Eyes And Drifting Away From Dreamland"

maanantai 6. huhtikuuta 2015

Old "Melancholy's Masquerade"review @ Avant-garde Metal

http://www.avantgarde-metal.com/content/beyond2.php?id=44 

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SOMNAM

Melancholy's Masquerade

Release:  2007
Label:  Paradigms Recordings
Avantgenre:  Experimental / Ambient / Electronica
Duration:  43:42
Origin:  Finland
Official site:  http://www.myspace.com/sOmnam

Review online since:  07.11.2008 / 08:54:42
 
The title chosen for the debut album of the Finnish one ghost project SOMNAM is perfect: "Melancholy’s Masquerade” offers us nine keyboard based voyages through dreary, yet colourful autumnal spheres, sometimes oppressive, sometimes uplifting, but always with sublime melancholic undertones that attach the listener with creative charm. Unlike many other ambient / electronica artists, SOMNAM’s sound is chameleonic, changes every now and then, and most of the time there’s more than a single melody which twists your brain. This is certainly not depressive in a sense of hopeless and not varying, but really melancholic. But did I write "twist your brain”? That’s after all not really the case since Antti Vaheri finds the balance between easy listening and the dramatic, maybe as a result of his fascination for specific soundtrack composers? SOMNAM certainly offers you atmospheric music for your own inner movies, not necessarily the nightmarish ones, but not for the comedies as well. These sound spheres take off where the mighty Norwegian Esperanza left after its incredible debut and I can recommend it to everybody into the ambient music of Tor Lundvall, Ulver or the named, far too early gone sound wizard from the Jester Records label. Music for your sleepwalks in the twilight hours, thus the monicker SOMNAM seems to be chosen with ulterior motives as well...

Thor Joakimsson



TRACKLIST:

01 - Masquerade
02 - Melancholy Disguised
03 - Devouring Spiral Oasis
04 - Drunk By The Sand
05 - Ghost Of The Light
06 - Deserted Mindscape
07 - Seconds Before The Shadows Come
08 - Faint Noise Dying
09 - Sunburnt & Withered

tiistai 31. maaliskuuta 2015

Rearranged demo songs 2006.

These two songs are from Somnam's 2nd demo Weeping Streets and Crying Cities 2006. Entrance was opening theme and Ghost Park was 9th.

Entrance (2014 edit)
  
Ghost Park (2015 edit)
 

Breathing Ends presents main theme from very 1st demo When Breathing Ends 2006.

Breathing Ends (2015 edit)

 River of Perdition is song made after 2nd demo.

River of Perdition (2013 edit)