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PAYSAGE D’HIVER “Die Berge”
PAYSAGE D’HIVER “Die Berge”
By Octopi Mills
If one has followed this Swiss one man project through the numerous albums throughout the years one knows that this project is always unique and interesting. Where others fall short PAYSAGE has lasted throughout the years creating very atmospheric black metal and ambient that sounds like the winter itself; a certain mood, atmosphere and ambience that has to be heard to truly be understood, and often many times.
This offering is rumored to be the last album and fulfills perhaps the final chapter in the concept of the wanderer character at the center of the band’s creations. The album’s length is long, and this is good and in no way boring. Not sounding far off from the other albums, it is just different in that it is done with even more mastery. The music blends together like a cinematic winter storm that is smooth yet howling and soft in its wild nature. Man becomes frozen in a death that becomes spiritual, and he becomes part pf the frosty landscape in something that is no longer mere survival but a sort of passage and transformation. It is like a great wintry painting that takes you there and all parts become one and not so individual and blend together so well as to be indistinguishable from the rest; all parts becoming something greater,
If there ever was a fellow who is able to do this best it is indeed the man here, creating an album that is new but will always be timeless and old. This is something that is so great that the artist is able to achieve that is more of a painting or film than actual music once one gets take to the realm, and it builds and takes a moment to do so but it literally takes you somewhere far off and away nearly like an astral experience or deep trance. I’ve never quite heard anyone do what PAYSAGE D’HIVER has done with this. I fail terribly to fully describe but here he does it again and perhaps to the greatest effect ever before. The last album was the same journey but different and worth the listen as are all of his albums. It will certainly be hard for anyone this year to make an album anywhere near the depth of this so go out and buy this one, it is well deserved. I must say, also, that I love how simple that artwork is and much like the earlier albums of before. It doesn’t have anything to prove and this man is certainly a musical genius.
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