SECRET PYRAMID: The Movements of Night LP
Secret Pyramid "The Movements of Night" LP
Secret Pyramid is the solo project of Vancouver-based musician Amir
Abbey, whose previous output includes “The Silent March,” a
cassette-only release that we’ll be reissuing on vinyl in early 2014.
“Movements of Night” finds Abbey refining and developing the haunting,
faraway soundworld that earned the aforementioned cassette well-due
praise. “A Descent” opens the record, and its title aptly portends the
dirge-like drones and throbbing cycles of low-end that are offered up to
the listener. Throughout the album, Abbey masterfully navigates the
properties of sleep and unconsciousness, charting a course that is equal
parts harrowing and funereal, tranquil and sublime. Abbey proves
particularly adept at juxtaposing the everyday with the obscured, and
this is evidenced perfectly on “Closer,” with half-there melodies and
arcs of hazy guitar histrionics that seamlessly dissolve into “To
Forget,” a track that posits a more familiar, tangible atmosphere in
which radiant drones are tethered to a driving bassline, recalling
perhaps a lost 70’s Popol Vuh Herzog soundtrack. “Escape” closes the
album on a nostalgic note, akin to the feeling one is confronted with
when waking from a wondrous dream which he knows he cannot revisit. With
“Movements of Night,” Abbey casts his net into the abyss of the
unconscious and returns with a potent paean to the dreamworld.
Tracklist:
1. Descent
2. Quiet Sky
3. Closer
4. To Forget
5. Move Through Night
6. Wish
7. Depths
8. Escape (Fade Out)
