Thursday, December 15, 2022

Onségen Ensemble - Duel (2018)

The second album from this band from Finland.

The band is a collective of eight musicians and the lineup is drums, bass, guitars, flutes, synths, keyboards and vocals.

I reviewed their 2016 debut album Awalai some years ago for another issue of this blog and liked that album a lot. I got their brand new album some weeks ago and decided to get their second and third album too for reviewing before reviewing their new album. Reviews that will follow before the end of this year.

The band is from the arctic tundras in the far north of Finland and that has coloured at least Duel, the album I am reviewing today.

The music is a mix of space rock and post-rock. There is a lot of ethnic, Scandinavian feelings and sounds on this album too. Hence my references to where the band comes from.

There is a lot of flutes and strange synths sounds on this album in addition to ethnic chanting in both male and female vocals.

The music is majestic and bold too. It has some Magma and zeuhl influences in this respect. 

The quality is decent to good throughout this album. I am not entirely won over. Nevertheless, this is an interesting album.

2.5 points



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