Embers is evocative of such deep emotional experience: loss, trauma, fear; but also healing, hope, renewal; that it feels like a journey through an inner life-- from broken suffering to triumphant self-actualization.
It makes one want to turn away from the noise of contemporary life to enter this space of pacifying and rejuvenating calm.
Embers is an elusive work which defies analysis: it flows effortlessly from one track to the next with liquid melodies and an economic sparsity squirebells
Spectral, dark-edged British folk, warped on the latter half by mesmerizing remixes. All proceeds go to Black South West Network. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 23, 2020
Working with just voice, piano and handmade cassette loops, the Chicago sound artist navigates heavy themes through a minimalist lens. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 2, 2021
Like a soundtrack to the world’s trippiest video game, the neon-like tones on the latest from Heaven Topology conjure whole new worlds. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 15, 2022
Sounds like shadows in the underworld...trapped in a sonic limbo between "not yet" and "not anymore", coming and going like silent guests, merely indicating the stories they bear and the sorrows they carry. Günter Schlienz created an album like a silent theater play, highly narrative without saying a single word. Beautiful! Rindenberg