Artist: Divine Matrix
Trackliste:
‘Dark Machine’ is a gloriously dark ambient release from Divine Matrix. It’s to easy to refer to an artist’s latest album as “their best yet”, but quite simply Dark Machine is and it’s sensational!From the drifting brilliance of the opening ‘Enigmatic Structure’, through the unsettling ‘Element Unknown’, the music is spellbinding. There are dangerous undertones in the title track and ominous foreboding throughout the remainder of the album.The penultimate track ‘Mort du Soleil’ offers a hint of optimism with its stunning Tangerine Dream’esq sequencing – a brilliant track. The album concludes with the aptly titled ‘Life Will Find A Way’. Here the music attempts to grasp at fleeting melodies through the darkness. And yet…this is far from a depressing album. In fact, it is an album brimming with inventive ambient music, peppered with great sequencing and rhythmic motion. There were times when I was reminded by tone and feel of the Vangelis track ‘Himalaya’ from the classic album ‘China’. And it could easily be the soundtrack to a sci-fi movie.
