Polish instrumental doom/drone/ambient/sludge duo Noche Oscura stream their new album »Gardens«

Wrocław, Poland based instrumental doom/drone/ambient/sludge duo Noche Oscura has released their new album »Gardens« on June 25th, 2024.

Tracklist:
01. Eden
02. The Two Gardens
03. The Beam Of Darkness

Noche Oscura is a Polish instrumental project playing music that follows the convention of sludge/doom metal with drone/ambient elements. The name was taken from the writings of the Spanish mystic Saint. John of the Cross, who used this term to describe the phenomenon of the “dark night” as a circumstance conducive to meditation and deep spiritual contemplation.

Therefore, the design compositions are characterized by an extremely dense and stuffy atmosphere. However, here the convention based mainly on dark, heavy structures is a counterpoint to the gently emerging light, giving hope and indicating the right direction of the chosen path. In this way, Noche Oscura creates a soundtrack that perfectly illustrates the state in which a difficult mystical experience, although severe and sometimes painful, leads to enlightenment. Therefore, when darkness takes over the mind, body and soul, it is an opportunity to explore true happiness
hidden under the facade of fragility, superficiality and insignificance.

This Manichaean practice is not always associated with suffering, but always requires sacrifice, based on abandoning comfort, routine, and apparent pleasure, in order to experience the “dark night” with humility and give rise to a deep experience of happiness, knowledge and love.

Order »Gardens« on CD here:
nocheoscura.bandcamp.com/album/gardens

Recorded between August nad Ocrober 2022 at Soundscope Studio by Jarosław Wysocki, Wrocław, Poland.
All tracks mixed and mastered by Jarosław Wysocki and Wojciech Szachowski.
Lyrics and voices on track »The Beam Of Darkness« taken from film »La Noche Oscura« (1989) by Carlos Saura.

Noche Oscura is:
Wojciech Szachowski – Guitars, Programming Samples
Michał Krupa – Bass Guitar, Samples

Guests:
Jakub Ściślak – Tenor Sax
Karol Petertil – Shakuhachi
Mateusz Mazur – Drums
Tomasz Wróblewski – Samples

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well