Canadian sound teller or ageless count from the depths of Bulgaria, we don't much about Frost Goth except that he has been sharing dark and esoteric ambient music under the moniker A Bleeding Star since 2008. Ten years of plummetting into the murkiest of lo-fi abysses through albums and EPs, self-releasing most of them and a few other with the help of small structures dedicated to idiosyncratic ambient and electronic music like Somehow Recordings (and its former subdivision Twisted Tree Line - French readers can check Des Cendres à la Cave's review of The Wolfbitten Melodies Of My Snowfallen Memories, maybe his most beautiful LP so far), Xtraplex (the excellent Encyclopeiaferamorte Decuparactesdelosotros Vienhivernatomeindormir last year, fitting with the more glitchy and abstract universe of one of the best IDM labels of the decade) and Assembly Field.
For about two years now, those gloomy offerings have been taking the singular form of an almost weekly single track output to stream and download for free on Frost's Bandcamp page, soon to be called "Cauldronations" with individual titles as evocative as the music itself.
An interesting choice for a type of music that usually relies a lot on lengthy immersion, this concept allows A Bleeding Star to blend in his cauldron different ingredients and influences every time, from the industrial downtempo beats of the well-named Ghost & Grey and the piano-based elegy My Castle Walls Couldn't Be Any Higher...So Fuck thy Luck At Gettin' Possibly Closer to the Eno-esque stellar ascension Singin' Sweetly: "I'm Goin' to Rip Your Fuckin' Heart Apart & there's Nothin' You Can Do to Stop Me", through the ethereal clouds of Curse thy Nefarious Light...I 'Vant None of It...for this Nocturnal Creature's Pure Darkness and Kenrokuen Garden, the rainy hiss melancholia of Exitfogblissforest, the harrowing lapping and clattering of Sink Or Swim? (ending on a sweet piano lullaby full of nostalgia) or the liquefied cinematography of Leaving Tokyo After A Crucial Message to Make My Way to Iwate's Tono Furusato Village.
Among the highlights of those past 8 months, let's mention the longform Classical Snowglobe Castle: Heart Apart By Deceitful Psychical Icicles with its organic flows of found percussions and stormy drones, sinking in the darkest ocean or floating in a snowglobe filled with ashes and lava dust :
... the misty atmosphere and martial pulsations of Pure Instincts: Nighthuntin' Departure's Street...Extinct-Time to Feast... dangers are lurking under the weak street lights at night :
... the chiroscuro dreamlike drones filled with mystery of the Badalamenti-friendly Just Give Me A Minute So I Can Recollect My Senses :
... the hammered chamber music for piano and metal percussions of Kithzenith :
... the liquefied hauntological reveries of 'Tis Ok...Blissful Dreams Eventually Slip & Break : (Revoking the Offering) :
... and the aerial and syncopated electronica of Recorderhope: Usin' Musical Notes Heard Further Years Ago In Order to Cope, which should feel warmly familiar to fervent followers of labels like Raumklang Music or the late Tympanik Audio (whose alumni Tineidae was sampled for another beat-based Cauldronation) :
Other sampled artists include the Belgian beatmaker Mind.Divided, who also released music with Raumklang in the past, on the crawling and creepy Los(t) Angel(es)s: Deadsign'd On A Glass Table...Contractcost Able...Parallel Line of A Mess, and the brilliant duo Tangent from Netherlands, formerly fom the Tympanik roster and now associated with n5MD, for the cosmic tides of Latenight Entertain'd & Still Swatchblazed...We Watch'd the NSA Go Up In Flames. A new direction favourable to proper collaborations, which happened very recently with Pavlo Storonsky aka Tineidae, resulting in the deep and bleak ambient maze of Vermilion Haze :
A lot more soon, maybe compilation volumes, who knows ? And to make sure you don't miss anything of what comes next, keep an ear on A Bleeding Star's Bandcamp page !
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