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One-woman soundscape artist Abby Helasdottir from Wellington, New Zealand creates music self-described as “dark ambience for dark goddesses”.
Gydja’s (Norwegian for “Priestess”) most recent recording is on Gears of Sand called “Machina Mundi”. It apparently evokes the spirit of weather and plant life. There is also “Umbilicus Maris” on Mystery Sea and others.
“Umbilicus Maris” truly is the perfect imaginary soundtrack to aquatic spelunking in Mexico. It’s “dark” only in that you can’t see that well, but the tones and the nature of the disc is really quite warm. Underground rivers on the Yucatán maintain a temperature of 76 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius) year-round. I’m not saying that Abby Helasdottir was going for 76-degree water with this recording, but even if you’re staring into the dark abyss, it’s much more comfortable if the water is warm. The disc is akin to drifting underground and discovering a plethora of iridescent petroglyphs that animate in a slow dancing story of an unrecorded civilization. Gurgling swaths of reverb use the water’s reflection to paint images on the cave’s ceiling, while prismatic droplets drip from glowing stalactites with beating hearts from an ice age still encased inside.
Gydja’s (Norwegian for “Priestess”) most recent recording is on Gears of Sand called “Machina Mundi”. It apparently evokes the spirit of weather and plant life. There is also “Umbilicus Maris” on Mystery Sea and others.
“Umbilicus Maris” truly is the perfect imaginary soundtrack to aquatic spelunking in Mexico. It’s “dark” only in that you can’t see that well, but the tones and the nature of the disc is really quite warm. Underground rivers on the Yucatán maintain a temperature of 76 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius) year-round. I’m not saying that Abby Helasdottir was going for 76-degree water with this recording, but even if you’re staring into the dark abyss, it’s much more comfortable if the water is warm. The disc is akin to drifting underground and discovering a plethora of iridescent petroglyphs that animate in a slow dancing story of an unrecorded civilization. Gurgling swaths of reverb use the water’s reflection to paint images on the cave’s ceiling, while prismatic droplets drip from glowing stalactites with beating hearts from an ice age still encased inside.
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SweetTenderness wrote:
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Fantastic ambient.
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News
The Blue-Lidded Daughter of Sunset
12 Jan 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/gydjaa
Available now from the Roil Noise label is The Blue-Lidded
Daughter of Sunset, a split release between Gydja and Thee Girls Ov
Ctephin. A celebration of the goddess Nuit, this features two long
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26 Jul 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/gydjaa
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YellofFright, DarthFreud, FreakyBallerina and 1 other person added Gydja to their libraries. Saturday morning
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Jacek_86 tagged Gydja with new zealand, ritual, ambient and 3 other tags. October 2011
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PiedPaper tagged Gydja with ritual, dark and dark ambient. October 2011
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and 1 other person added Gydja to their libraries. October 2011
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Ha5tur tagged Gydja with ‘dark ambient’. July 2011
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Madrangue tagged Gydja with dark, experimental, ambient and one other tag. July 2011
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cstewart1122 and mairi_d added Gydja to their libraries. July 2011
- Gydja posted a news item ‘The Blue-Lidded Daughter of Sunset’. May 2011
- Gydja posted a news item ‘Helchemy out now on AFE Records’. May 2011
- Gydja posted a news item ‘Gydja track on AtmoWorks Presents: Compiled’. May 2011
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