Ascension of Shadows

One of Steve Roach’s most regular collaborators over time has been Belgium’s equally steadily prolific Dirk Serries, who worked under the Vidna Obmana moniker for many years, and it’s little surprise that their equivalent interests in deep electronic meditations were simpatico. The three disc Ascension of Shadows, originally released in 1999 as a marking of the impending millennium, is arguably the logical end point of their maximalist sides (in length if not necessarily sonically) nearly four hours of enveloping compositions that each fill their respective discs beautifully.