Tjaktjadálvve - Echoes On A Windswept Plain (full album, 2023)

Here is a recent release from the multi-project, multi-instrumentalist, multi-talented Matthew Bell, on the marvellous Flowing Downward label. An artist who I have previously featured on several (but nowhere near all) of his guises through different labels, including Moonlight Drowns - one of the very first albums I uploaded to the channel in its early days, and one I still play a lot because few albums come close to that heart-string shredding melancholic euphoria of Destiny and the Aftermath. Likewise his Autumn’s Dawn project with its powerfully stirring melodies, and the stratospheric cosmic atmoblack of Stjärnfält. Bell has also been picking up a lot of praise recently for his Skuggor project, which leans heavily into brzm for its raw naturalistic melancholies (and will be released to tape by another friend of the channel soon). From that point we arrive at Tjaktjadálvve. Looking at the artwork you can feel you are in a bleak place, and this album delivers those morose greys of DSBM, scarred with troughs of grim ambience, yet elevated with the primal energies of elemental atmospheric black metals into walls of harrowing trance, from its origins through to modern incarnations. Safe to say, Bell is a very talented musician and black metal songwriter, and if the musical credentials on display here aren’t enough to convince you, know that he’s currently been playing in the Lustre live band. Tjaktjadálvve - Echoes on a Windswept Plain is available now in digital and CD formats from Flowing Downward bandcamp: and the Tjaktjadálvve bandcamp: Band: Tjaktjadálvve Album: Echoes on a Windswept Plain Year: 2023 Label: Flowing Downward Country: Sweden Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal Transmissions links: Album: Tracklist: 1. Echoes on a Windswept Plain 00:00 2. Barren 08:17 3. Circling the Abyss 09:03 4. The Descent 15:23 5. That Sinking Feeling 17:07 6. Wandering Aurora 26:44 More about the artist here: - Tjaktjadálvve - Bandcamp: Instagram: Spotify: Metal Archives: álvve/3540501881 - Flowing Downward - Web: Bandcamp: Instagram: Facebook: Metal Archives: Uploaded on behalf of Flowing Downward and M., with thanks. - Transmissions links - LinkTree: Instagram Facebook Page: Twitter Transmissions logo by Rotting Reign Instagram: Facebook: Transmissions Banner image photography by Alison Scarpulla – untitled, 2010. #AtmosphericBlackMetal #DSBM #FlowingDownward