Aviliai by Daina Dieva & Skeldos
"Aviliai" is an album by two Lithuanian drone-ambient projects Daina Dieva and Skeldos. Their idea on working on a record together has matured over a couple of years, and finally, when materialized, became a multifaceted soundscape. The sound travels in between the silence and the noise, layered voice-patterns give way to a harsher wall of sounds, easing out again to the minimal volume, maximum tension.
Skeldos tell, that "the album is about a dream, which is being born while you fall into the sleep while surrounded by the branches of a tree, as if in your bee-hive. It is as if you'd walk though viscous sands that become endless seas, into the sound of the rain of moths. It's a dream which needs you body-less. It's a dream from which you can't return."
"I've filled "Aviliai" album with the sweetness of honey, with my pain and heartburn, my longing for serenity and the fatigue of time. All of those feelings and forebodings, dreams and nightmares unfold themselves and turn to sound," shares Daina Dieva.
This sound-trip starts with a flutter of a butterfly in a mirror and goes through to the core of a dream.
Reviews:
"If you allow the music to enfold you, and don’t ask too many questions, Aviliai becomes a special type of collaborative listening experience, and one that reaches a rare relationship between artist and listener." https://teutonkhamat.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/daina-dieva-skeldos-aviliai/
"Ambitious, epic and yet also intimate and minimalist, this is something very special."
https://active-listener.blogspot.com/2015/02/daina-dieva-skeldos-aviliai.html
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weaving drones and listening to the whisper, screech and chirp of more-than-human world she inhabits.
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