Album: Bod
Artist: MUUR
Label: Cyclic Law
Catalogue no: 143rd Cycle
Tracklist:
1. Bod
MUUR’s Bod is composed of a single track of
deeply resonant, atavistic, subterranean, and primeval ritual occult ambient,
rising up from the deepest chasms. Strangely-garbed and faceless figures huddle
in secret temples, bathed in the dim light of sacred fires and billows of
incense, singing chants of abysmal power accompanied by instruments made from
bone. This is the sound of tectonics shifting, of the planet realigning itself
into a new paradigm, of ages-old power preparing itself for a renewal and
resurgence into the light of the modern era. Tinkling finger-cymbals, guttural
throat-singing reciting ancient texts that were once buried with our ancestors,
massive fuzzed-out guitar chords, all set against swathes of deep sweeping bass
chords and primitive rhythms. It’s like listening to the very earth itself
reawakening a long-entombed power, a power that has been biding its time until
all the right elements are properly aligned, a calling up of preternatural
entities to wrest the world from the desecrators and defilers.
This really is the most
extraordinary and the most glorious piece of ritual ambient I’ve heard
recently. This goes straight to the limbic system in our brains, stimulating
our most primitive instincts and connections. This is after all the purpose of
rituals such as these – to forge links with those aspects of ourselves and our
world that we’ve forgotten or lost. More than that, those deep subterranean
voices and bass rumbles are felt deeply, sometimes physically in the pit of
one’s stomach. These aren’t some empty ritualistic gestures aimed at some
abstract deity: no, the entities addressed here are far older, far more real,
and far more deeply embedded in the fabric of our reality than we are wont to
acknowledge. These beings or, rather, spirits are intertwined with the physical
matter that constitutes our planet. Even so, they are capricious in nature and
they are not beholden to us: we are merely passengers.
MUUR’s Bod is goose-pimple-inducing, and the
hairs on the back of my neck and arms stood up, plus shivers ran down my spine.
It’s a reaction that’s a result of our mind and body remembering – the
resurfacing of our most hidden memories that modern society and civilisation
have covered over with unnecessary detritus. It’s a reminder too of what we’ve
forgotten, and what we’ve lost, as well as a signpost to a deeper reality.
Let the gods of the elder
times sweep you along and bring you face to face with your ancestors – you’ll
be grateful for it.
Out on 30th
July and available as a CD in an edition of 500 from Cyclic Law’s Bandcamp page
here: https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/bod
