EREBUS, LA SUITE DE LAS SOMBRAS.

Quite familiar and nostalgic, regardless of the latest creation of ASCETA. "Erebus, La Suite De Las Sombras" was released as the second album of a Chilean chamber-rock project ASCETA. Such an impressive debut has been launched by them in the late 2022 (and lots of chamber-rock fans have been immersed in this stuff), and surprisingly they have come back to our mind with a new opus full of creativity only half a year later. Guess their creativity consists of their flexible improvisational appearance and elaborately calculated musical intention in the background. BAsically the melody lines are quite complicated and the rhythmic bases are pretty sarcastic but the instrumental sound combination can cool, stabilize, and relieve us in a mysterious manner. Their colourful musicscape and worldview cannot be caught and digested so easily as you know but wonderful sound construction can be smoothly accepted as an overall flow.

Quirky music complexity is clarified and actualized from the beginning of "Preludio", that is veiled in a depressive realistic atmosphere like the current tough situation all over the world. And a contrast and comparison of darkness and brightness get to be apparent in a huge suite "El Hereje Y El Devoto ~ Profanos Y Arcanos". You can hear melodic, rhythmic complications around this suite, filled with sensitive strings, dry-fruity, a bit objective horn sections, and bitter supportive rhythm sections. On the contrary you can find the suite could express difficulty nowadays and brilliant hope and expectation in the near future. Our life involves ups and downs ... but in "La Danza De Los Condenados" as a dance sometimes crazy and sometimes calm, we, the damned by various issues, should never give up hope and keep dancing under their complex melodic departure. Let's face forward and go ahead together, ASCETA say.