Sounds from Beyond the Silver Wheel

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
The Dark Muse, Phyll Smith, is a one woman dream project offering sounds in haunting lush ethereal, minimal, experimental, darkwave, and dark ambient noise flow.

The Dark Muse has been creating sounds with voice, all of her life and approaches the use of voice in sound with pure emotion and the raw power of experimentation. This unique discipline enables the manifestation of textures and layers of a deep auditory nature.

Phyll's true passion is music, proclaiming herself as a vessel for sound to flow.

Phyll is also well known for her custom gothic jewelry creations that exhibit themselves under the moniker Eyescream Jewelry.

Album Description
An otherworldly journey that traverses the listener through isloated atmospheres and dimly lit corridors...this is music for haunted spaces.

Tracks:

Queen of the World of Spirits
Certain Angst
Calm
Luna Flow (the Deep)
Once Amid a Dream
Silver Wheel Flow
Disorder

Album Description

An otherworldly journey that traverses the listener through isloated atmospheres and dimly lit corridors...this is music for haunted spaces.

Customer Reviews:

...like tattered scraps of lace in a twilight breeze........2003-04-17

Obtuse gothicism blurs and loops into an ethereal wonderland in this hour of shadowy she-spawned eardreams. Rising and falling on eerie waves with vague accents, "Queen of the World of Spirits" calls from faraway with her phantasmal moans. Throbbing ceremonial drums resonate from behind the wispy vocal veils fluttering in "Certain Angst," reminiscent of a homegrown Dead Can Dance.

A fogbank drone seeps into/out of "Luna Flow (The Deep)," its gaseous movements obscured by boiling grayness, occasionally gleaming with mysterious energies, rarely identifiable as instrumentation. So nice to have a feminine force operating in such vaporous realms! The mist-ified tinkle of metals is buoyed by a weirdly rolling sonic sea in the slow-simmering abstract murk of "Silver Wheel Flow" (5:22). Muted/mutated strings toll before "Disorder" (11:30) is swallowed in layers of female croonings, swaying like tattered scraps of lace in a twilight breeze.

Besides weaving entrancingly dank atmospheres in her Dark Muse mode, Phyll also crafts intricately jeweled adornments at ...eyescreamjewelry.... The seemingly disparate endeavors are in fact entwined. Both sound and jewelry merge Gothic, Victorian, Renaissance, Medieval, Art Nouveau, Celtic, Egyptian and Pagan influences into beguiling new shapes. Decorate your own chambers with the melancholy majesty of "Sounds from Beyond the Silver Wheel."

- Review from Ambientrance.org (David Opdyke)

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