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Mila Drone and Dragon & Jettenbach: s/t

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Artist: Mila Drone and Dragon & Jettenbach (@)
Title: s/t
Format: 3" Mini CD
Label: Inner Demons Records
Rated: * * * * *
I had not heard of Mila Drone before this disc, but the Bandcamp page describes the music thus: "Mila is the ghost of a housewife from Warsaw, Poland, who plays and records songs in the dronegaze / cloudgaze / minimal style. . . . She likes fuzzes, delays, phasers and other quirks. Sleepwalking." Dragon & Jettenbach is an electronic duo from London, UK consisting of Peter Adjobia (Dragon) and Paul Jetten (Jettenbach). They previously had a disc on Inner Demons as well. So let's see what this split sounds like.

Mila Drone kicks it off with "367 Days a Year," which begins with a simple guitar line followed by heavy guitar drone - think endless delay. This then shifts to another simple melody with fuzzed out guitar that slowly fades out. Interesting track, but short at 8 minutes.

Next up is Dragon + Jettenbach with "Dark Matter Coalescing Into a Light More Bright and Brilliant Than a Million Suns." This track brings us some spacey dark ambient with slow moving synth soundscapes that manage to evoke the titular concept. Bits of bass rumble mesh with high pitched spectral synth. Also, at just over 11 minutes, it is a good length to just sink into.

Overall, this is a good taste of these artists' work and both leave me interested to hear more. Although they are very different styles, the collaboration did not seem out of place and seemed complementary. One good thing about these kinds of splits is that if one is not to your liking, the other may be. If you like guitar drone and dark ambient, this one would check both boxes. This disc weighs in at around 19 minutes.

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