#aethenor

[low-ends]

Daily Wax 1: Æthenor's Deep in Ocean Sunk the Lamp of Light (VHF#97)

In order to blow the dust off of low ends, I decided to run through my records, æ to z.

Horror Jazz supergroup Æthenor were at the time keyboardist Daniel O'Sullivan, guitarist Stephen O'Malley and Organist/synthesizer Vincent De Roguin. Together they created the score to an unknowable horror film soundtrack. The noises, musical and otherwise, sway, drop and swell like the sea. Storm clouds in the form of clanging metal and plucked guitar form on the hroizon just as the tide rolls out, leaving the stench of space. A truly agoraphobic release, addicting and easy to lose hours to, despite being a painfully brief 34 minutes. 9/10.

[mistersenorlovedaddy]

aethenor “betimes black cloudmasses”

[store15nov]

AETHENOR / Hazel (LP+DL) AETHENOR 待望の５作目 "Hazel" アナログ盤！！ダウンロード・コード付き。Stephen O’Malley ( Sunn0))), KTL )、Daniel O’Sullivan ( Ulver, This is Not This Heat, Grumbling Fur, etc. ), Kristopher Rygg ( Ulver ), Steve Noble ( Brötzmann Trio, N.E.W. ) によるエクスペリメンタル・ユニット "Athernor" の５年ぶり５枚目となるアルバムが登場。気だるい情感を引きずり土煙が舞い上がる暗黒のサイケデリック・ミュージック！！

[mistersenorlovedaddy]

æthenor “en form for bla”

[adisgustfordetails]

Droning my morning away courtesy of Aethenor. #morningjams #aethenor

[noch-nicht-tot]

...playing together...

[owenmyers]

Introducing: Miracle

*Cilla voice* What's your name and where d'ya come from?

Daniel and Steve used to play in metal bands with names like Sunn0))) and Aethenor, but they got a tired of playing one bone-crushing note for two hours and decided they wanted to be pop stars.

We're not talking Evanescence?

Think more like the brooding synth-pop of Soft Cell, or a darker-hearted Hurts. Big stadium-sized pop melodramas with house beats and synth baselines. Like their genres, they're also not afraid of mixing their metaphors (sample lyric: 'No mortal lips are worthy of this kiss')

Blimey.

Yes. The video for 'Good Love' is a weird 80s-does pre-Raphaelite hi-gloss affair. Singer Daniel cries blood and levitates a shrouded lady, and there's also plenty-o-Brylcreem and billowing chiffon.

Like Channel 5 in the 90s?

I doubt they'd have too much problem with that comparison. For their London single launch they performed on a light-up dancefloor, after all. Very Disco 2000.

Anyway, back to the music.

New single 'Fall Into Night' is the kind of disco heartbreak anti-anthem that everyone wished Rebecca Ferguson had come out with, with a soaring synth-led chorus about walking through fire, a glitchy Miraclestep™ breakdown and lots of pulsating quasar synths to keep everyone on their toes. Vocoders aplenty too. 

'Do you belieee-heevee in life after love?'

Just listen to the record already.

'Introducing' feature originally published in Attitude, March 2012.