Synopsis:

The result of instrumental work, sampling and grotesque combinations of the two, Luminous Darkness by Cyclobe represents the first fruit of two years work and constant mutation.
You may hear... sounds threaded through squid's guts and neural shredding machinery, keyboards with a nasty rash, voices that don't let on, poison juice mulched out of pop music left-overs, beats where the sun don't shine, outdoor sounds field-recorded by agoraphobes, inner ear oceanics, silent hovering visitors and moments of loathsome beauty.

Obsessions include:

Transcendental pornography, phallic navigation, four or many-legged things, violent death majesty, telepathic bedroom exercises, brute reality juggling, dreaming being awake, sick jokes in other dimensions, persistent swelling and always colour; ESPecially the tuning of it.

Comments:

"The music is to do with the condition of awareness at the time of listening, or maybe trying to achieve higher awareness... with sounds as pathfinders. Using intuition, emotion and the power of the senses - the wish to explore...
We're working very close to the abstract but each piece is structured dramatically. Drama requires that something be at stake; not a feeling you often get from abstract music. Emotion entails danger and emotion is the factor we use to devise structures. We want to make music that plays with a sense of jeopardy and surprise, whilst remaining slippery and daemonic in the details. Hovering threats and imminent ecstasies...
The songs work like invocations, summoning both alien and intimate energies. Each title is a key, with special access to the resonance of each piece - they get you into (or out) of the situations aroused. A title like Inevitable Black Horn or You

"Luminous Darkness isn't beautiful, It's worse"

Produced by David Kenny and Cyclobe
Tracks 13 & 15 were originally commissioned for theatre projects by David Ellis / The Address