The Italian sound and drone monsters Ufomammuth aren't my cup of tea at all. But what bassist Urlo delivers with his solo project The Mon in the form of the Gesamtkunstwerk "Major Arcana" is quite simply a masterpiece of visual and acoustic aesthetics. The diverse layers of frequencies and sounds, in their contradictions, form a tightly interwoven web of simultaneous lightness, transparency, and density, similar to the tent construction of Munich's Olympic Stadium. Whether this, according to the press release, leads one on an inner journey to God or a similar spirituality is debatable. The fact is, without a sense of, or without a pre-existing spirituality, one would subject oneself to the seven-minute flood of images accompanied by acoustic accompaniment.
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