"It is Nils Petter Molvaer's most angry and darkest album up to date
with climaxes in the songs "Friction" and "Cruel Altitude" where he and
his fellow musicians, guitarist Eivind Aarset and drummer Audun Kleive,
leave the paths of ambient, electronica and improvisation and get the
axe out to poach in the fields of indie and 70ies-prog-rock, before they
cool it down to end the album on a more conciliatory note.
The
word "Hamada" is taken from the Arabian language and means dead,
inanimately, congealed, lapsed. It is used as the geological term for a
stone or rock desert with no or only little sand. Instead it is filled
with edgy stones or rocks as a result of physical erosion."-Thirsty Ear |