Stream "Hauntology", the Brand New Concept Album by Italian Dark Ambient Artist Abiura
Italian Dark Ambient artist Abiura has released his expansive new concept album "Hauntology", via Moment of Collapse Records. The 31 minute long album was constructed as a single track, split into 6 sections for this release.
The project is born from the interest for the exploration of sounds as an opportunity for spiritual introspection and contemplation.
The main influences are projects and artists like Saåad, Arve Henriksen, Tim Hecker, Burial, Byla, Ben Frost, Hoedh, Barn Owl, Uboa, Ulver, William Basinski. About the theme that "Hauntology" deals with, the project has been influenced by the philosophical work of Mark Fisher, Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek.
From the Artist:
I would describe this album as my own personal attempt to face Modernity and at least try to escape it through art, by representing the Real in musical terms.
"Hauntology '' is a concept album constructed as a 31 minutes long track, split in 6 different sections unified by one common leitmotif that inspired the whole work: the theme of late capitalism and its pervasive effects on the human being. The different sections of the album are metaphorically the stages of a journey through the "ghosts" of the 21st century, the lost futures that are tormenting us and which are preventing us to imagine different realities, by locking us in a cultural impasse.
The idea of this journey started from a thought that I personally find terrifying and inspiring at the same time: we tend to interpret "ideology" as something external that's being imposed on us, but what if ideology has become our natural state? What if our most profound and inner desires are already born as a coherent piece in the structure of late-capitalism? Can we step outside this paradigm?
I tried to represent the haunting "uneasiness" of this dilemma through this album.
I hope that at the end of the journey the listener will be left with the feeling that the future is slowly fading away. And life, emotions, sounds, history... ultimately everything is disappearing with it. But also with the awareness that we still have art, and with it we can start to reimagine all sorts of alternative realities. - Daniele Vergine
Listen to the “Hauntology” album below and connect with Abiura on his social media.