It has always been a problem for me to find a dark ambient release that was able to fullfill my needs of darkness. You know, the problem is that with the years I became used to listen drones and mysterious voices coming from dusty closets. Musterion‚s first release The Black Lodge fortunately isn’t a dark-ambient release that contains tracks made with two sounds with titles that evoke unknown demons. Simon AA Kölle had the idea...

On the HORUS CyclicDaemon web site I read about the release. HORUS CyclicDaemon explains the cd as a story. Not surprising as Musterion is the solo project of Simon AA Kölle. The story (or concept) is not presented like he (and Simon Heath) presents the Za Frûmi saga, in a dialog. The Black Lodge is a world beyond the normal world as we know it. The main character Dale Cooper of the cult series Twin Peaks is trapped there. In the cd we...

As the album progresses the listener travels through water bound places in the wild as you struggle alongside unknown companions to escape unseen forces in the night. Time shifts and landscapes morph into new and undetermined lands as if you walk through a reality constructed of dreams. What was an open marsh under the stars becomes a moment of deep inner reflection alone in an alley. One moment you are exploring the abandoned remains of a...

The Black Lodge, a world beyond, is the place were Agent Dale Cooper is trapped. He travers through memories, dreams, Tibet, the works of H. P. Lovecraft and more. The Agent possesses the body of the late Jerzy Grotowski as he do his last journey among the walking dead. The visions of Cooper are seen, heard and felt in this avant-garde and exquisitely dark ambient album from Musterion, Simon AA Kölle (Za Frûmi, Abnocto). The Black Lodge is...