Poisoned Dreams: a dark-ambient CD inspired by Lovecraft

chrysoenix · Post by **chrysoenix** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:35 pm

Hello everyone, I'm new here... my name is Jason. I am an avid Lovecraft fan and am well submerged in his mythos. I am a recording artist and I record under the name The Unquiet Void and my third release, on Middle Pillar Presents ( http://www.middlepillar.com ), is called Poisoned Dreams and is based on Dagon, The Call of Cthulhu and The Shadow Over Innsmouth by HP Lovecraft. This CD is part 1 of a trilogy I am creating due to my love of Lovecraft's work and I'm anxious to share it with other Lovecraft fanatics.

MP3 samples of this CD can be heard at:

http://www.middlepillar.com/mpp/mpp980/

and for more information on the CD / The Unquiet Void please come and visit my website at:

http://www.theunquietvoid.com

I took the project VERY seriously to bring forth an album that is a companion piece to the writing as well as to LARPing. It's very dark and very strange and I hope some of you will like it.

Thanks much for your time

Stick · Post by **Stick** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 5:47 pm

What great thunder and crashing waves (of ambience)!

I cannot wait to hear more!

neonchris · Post by **neonchris** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:44 pm

"Posioned Dreams" is an amazing disc, I can't reccomend it highly enough. It has far more of the mythos in it than any other music I can think of, and it also has more longevity than most lovecraft inspired music, I'm still listening to it regulary a year down the line. Amazing, mesmerising stuff.

chrysoenix · Post by **chrysoenix** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:47 am

Thank you everso much Neonchris... I truly appreciate the feedback and I'm flattered that you think so highly of the album. Just to let you know it is the first in a trilogy of albums I have planned. The second album, The Shadow-Haunted Outside, is completed after a long and grueling process. During the recording my apartment burnt down (in April of 05) fueling the release with my own feelings of uncertainty, anger, sadness, loss, etc... and then came the nightmares, some of the most unbearable I have ever had - because of them I took a 4 and 1/2 month break from it... it was too heavy for my spirit at one point.

The album continues from Poisoned Dreams and is about the awakening of the outer gods and their reclaimation of our world. There is really no melodic work in this album because we're venturing into their territory and melody if familiar to people - I took away the familiarity.

Until this Sunday on The Unquiet Void Myspace page you can hear the first 4 tracks of the album to get a sense of what it's like. The album builds to a climax that is 18 and 1/2 minutes in length called "The Lurker at the Threshold" - it's a mindfuck piece. I'm really happy with the way it turned out and I hope you will like it as well... I think it's darker and stranger than Poisoned Dreams personally.

Poisoned Dreams, over a year later, is still selling very well and is still being reviewed!! The momentum is really amazing to me. People really seem to connect with it and that pleases me more than I can say. I have made a lot of really wonderful friends (into the mythos and otherwise) because of it. Some poeple have even told me that they started reading Lovecraft because of it - that is amazing!! We all love his work and we should all celebrate in that together... that's my take anyhow.

The response to the first album has been quite overwhealming to me... but wonderful just the same.

http://www.myspace.com/theunquietvoid

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