Album Notes

Machine Tribe Recordings and The Sound-O-Mat are proud to present 'evergone', a collaborative effort between Abstract Audio Systems of New York City and ambient composers Austere, from Portland, Ore. Moving, evolving ambient musick that stays on the edge of "ambient" but continues to engage the listener at all times.

The raw sound materials for this 6 track CD were provided by Austere and subsequently manipulated and sequenced by AAS. The result is an ambient work inspired by the ideas of space and distance.

These cold reaches can be heard in 'exo-bio', while 'blu" and 'atul' speak of the ocean's depths and the wildness of the unexplored. "blackfilm" and "unquiet" are much more claustrophobic, each mapping some secret, inner space that we ourselves are sometimes afraid to explore. The title track returns us to the light and reminds us of the comfortable spaces we build around ourselves. For more information, please visit the links below:

http://austere.org (austere@austere.org)

http://www.mtrec.com (info@mtrec.com)

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Austere
A Biography
By Bill Binkleman
Wind & Wire magazine
http://www.windandwire.com

Austere is an enigmatic duo who record some of the more interesting ambient music I've heard in my six plus years of reviewing. From the swirling drones (I was gonna say "dark" drones, but...) and eerie melancholy of Monodia to the warmth and beauty amidst minimalism of Fade to the cool glitch beats and samples of one of Austere's side project's The Mystifying Oracle's Quintessence (see my review here:
http://www.windandwire.com/may/quintessence.htm)

Austere are less concerned with following the path and more concerned with breaking new ground. However, they are undoubtedly enigmatic, as one would glean from the above, and shun the spotlights of media and personality. However, in my many communiques with them, I have found few artists in this industry who are more polite, engaging, genuine or friendly. If only some of the more "exposed" artists in ambient music were as humble and humane.

Check them out at http://www.austere.org and read more reviews of their work by yours truly here at http://www.windandwire.com.


There, now you and others know as much about Austere as anyone!

Bill