Ananak by Xenis Emputae

A VERY early pre-XETB recording from 2000. Originally released in a very small edition (perhaps around 10 copies) on my own label.

One copy at least made it to a guy called Andrew Johnson who recorded noise under the name D-503, who wrote the following review:

"seeing as this release has only four tracks on it i don't think it'd be too much trouble to go song by song on the review, so here goes: 'saint toad' starts off the disc with slow bells, joined at times with more natural sounding bells and a buzzy flange sweep, a pretty low-key way to start the disc. the next track, 'hall of ****' (where the third word is written in hebrew, which i cannot understand) is more busy, with what sounds like distorted metal friction and feedback layered over atmospheric sounds (wind,maybe birds and some more bells). nice juxtaposition between natural (sounding) and more traditional noise type sounds, very grey and bleak. the theme continues with 'sustasis to helios', which sounds like water and rain at the start and then layers on a sort of melody with a synthesizer(?) and somewhat muffled chirping, buzzing metallic noise. the final track, 'nigredo', opens with a deep reverberated sound and animal sounds (which seem to be actually human in origin) and adds in sparse white noise and feedback. as a whole this album is pretty atmospheric, even the noisier bits are not too loud, and the whole thing is actually sort of depressing to listen to. don't take that as a negative comment on it, i enjoyed this album a lot and it seemed very planned out and well put together. highly recommended."

Tracklist

1.	Saint Toad	7:03

2.	Hall of CThVLH	7:03

3.	Sustasis To Helios	7:02

4.	Nigredo	7:02

5.	Bonus: Six Times Seven	0:41

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released January 1, 2000

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