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Mathias Grassow : first gift of life

  • DATABLOEM
  • Release Year 2014
  • 4 Tracks, 60 Minutes
  • CD in Two Panel Digifile

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DB052

12,90 €

Next gift of life from Mathias Grassow to the world. Prior to the musical realization of the spiritual development and awakening steps through our life heard on SECOND GIFT OF LIFE, FIRST GIFT OF LIFE is the musical realization of physical origin from source in the womb to destination birth, here presented by a monotonously ebbing and drifting 60 minute drone piece.


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REVIEW
Enigmatic drone visionary Mathias Grassow has released "Second Gift Of Life" at the end of 2012. One and half year later comes its inverted follow up, the first chapter "First Gift Of Life". Again released on Databloem (May 2014) and packaged in uniformed digifile tastefully designed by Theo Rabou.Announced as a 60-minute long monochromatic drone piece, so I am pretty sure this is going to be a quite challenging task to review this album. A dedicated exploratory session is a truly crucial thing in this case, no question about this, because passive listening might easily turn into an absolute disaster. But I am not afraid of this, because all devotees know exactly the most hidden entrances into Mathias Grassow's spectacular inner domains. "First Gift Of Life" is divided into four parts, ranging between 16 and 13 and half minutes. Of course don't expect any pauses or overlapping passages, the drone can't glide more seamlessly. "Part One" immediately unfolds with ultra flatlined drone therapy, drifting through subtle tides and exquisitely augmented by perplexingly twinkling distant subtleties, while mysterious gongs ride atop. Powerfully mindscaping dronescape reaches almost inconspicuously its intense peak toward the end with pervading dissonant layers. Welcome to the drone Eden!!! I am reawaken for a brief moment by buzzing discordances and I see that "Second Part" is already in its full bloom. So don't expect any pauses or overlapping passages, this stunningly intense drone scenario can't glide more seamlessly. Yet precisely tickling my ears with high-pitched, mesmerizingly towering oddities, while guarding viscous magmatic flow of drones. This is certainly Mathias Grassow at the very top of his ferocious dronesculpting. Blissfully transporting magic indeed, there is no way to escape from the realms owned by this undeniable Drone Emperor!!! Yep, I again missed transmuting point between "Part Two" and "Part Three", but around 4th-5th minute the drone quietly extends into even more immense and gracious expanse, but accompanying piercing delicacies are slowly substituted by meandering hissy blankets. But this dominates for few minutes only, then mysterious tinkles resurface again and continuously reinforce monolithic drone fields. Toward the end occasional cyber-tech bleeps rise from the immersion and tranquilly amalgamate with oracular sparkles and solitary gongs, when preserving deliberately vanishing drone tension. Wow, I am finally detecting inaudible gap between two parts, "Part Four" is ignited!!! Spacious, but quietly free-floating, with slightly decreasing volume through the beginning, but that seems to be the calm before the storm. Drone monochromatism slips into the deepest abyssal domains with enormously humming reverberations, illuminating scraps disappear in unfathomable depths of nothingness. Absolutely breathtaking transition!!! But the drone mysteriously crescendoes through the entirely fascinating subterranean sceneries. Heavyweight drifts, which in the meantime smoothly move upward into brighter glimpses, are meticulously interrupted with crepuscular rumbles and intangible squeaks. A grand finale, the destination birth!!!Did I say monochromatic? Sure, utterly monotonous, but thrillingly adventurous at the same time with constantly rewarding, well-hidden treasures, more please!!! A headphone listening guarantees an extraordinary journey to explore and map the most spellbinding mysteries of the body and mind, follow the drone Shaman! (Richard Gürtler)