TUNNELS OF AH - 'Deathless Mind'





CSR279CD (15 May 2020)
CD in digipak
Barcode: 0641871745548

'NO DEATH BECAUSE THERE IS NO BIRTH'.

The ambient drones and angular abstractions on 'Deathless Mind' combine to carry the listener on a disquieting journey into dark recesses. TUNNELS OF ĀH pursue a singular sonic path. Each album has been recorded with a visualised location arising in; for 'Charnel Transmissions' it was a childhood landfill, 'Thus Avici', a field of pig arks in a Golgotha landscape. How these places emerge and obsess is a mystery. 'Deathless Mind' is set on a half mile stretch of abandoned railway where various human transgressions have occurred.

With contributions from Primitive Knot on 'Ritual For The New Dumb' and Adam Probert (The Mannequin Factory) on 'Saint of Slaves', 'Deathless Mind' is an album recorded at the height of summer and sounding like the depths of winter.

TUNNELS OF AH is Stephen Ah Burroughs (HEAD OF DAVID).

Track listing:

1. Ritual For The New Dumb
2. Parable Of The Sewer
3. The Cult Is On The Move
4. Saint Of Slaves
5. Ascetic
6. Cum Iron In The Spine
7. Sanatorium Lawns

REVIEWS:

"For every movement, there is, necessarily an anti-movement, and in the face of international popular culture, there must, by necessity, be a staunchly devoted underground. And it’s deep underground that we find Tunnels of Āh. Bold, scraping bows sound the barking start of long, low notes, before monastic voices and abrasive extranea enter the mix. A relentless barrage of low thrums and serrations that fizz, scratch, and crackle filter through the speakers and fill the air. It’s dark, tense, and oppressive…” (Whisperin And Hollerin)

“Discordant, pared-down industrial noise fractures into something new entirely here, largely disposing with vocals and recognisable samples to emphasise a rich, if menacing and discomfiting, often overwhelming soundscape… In some ways, it feels as though the album is accompanying a journey in some respects (or at least, some dark night of the soul). There’s a sense of being drawn onward to some place, almost against one’s will… a recording which refuses to fade into the background. You can’t help but be absorbed by it and into it, whilst perhaps most interestingly of all, it has the strange feeling of a learning experience” (Trebuchet)

“Superestructuras de planos musicales erigidas por Stephen Ah Burroughs como túmulos funerarios en “Deathless Mind”, y que transmiten esa inquietud existencial unida a la esencia del ser humano desde que la llama de la Razón iluminara su interior, y le hiciera preguntarse cuál era el sentido de la vida y qué hay más allá de la muerte... Con detalles industriales de vanguardia decorando esta tenebrosa estructura, a lo largo del tiempo su atmósfera oprime y desespera al adquirir ese halo de perdición propio del callejón sin salida o del laberinto que los anglosajones denominan como maze. Un toque demoníaco y perverso siempre latente a lo largo de toda la composición” (Lux Atenea)