"To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence" Arthur Schopenhauer.
Review quote: "Dark ambient sounds, low rumbles, wind through distant tunnels, icy synthesizer drips, gorgeously tranquil and desolate."
Released by Darker Days Ahead on tape in 2012.
Reviews
Third I - Reaching Toward the Light
Dark ambient sounds, low rumbles, wind through distant tunnels, icy synthesizer drips, gorgeously tranquil and desolate. Between these guys and Djordje/Raven and a couple other things I’ve caught wind of here and there, Serbia seems like quite the place these days.
www.centipedefarm.com
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"Reaching Toward The Light" review on Suave Citation
Man, don’t you just hate it when you get all trapped up in some dank ass cavern? That shit sucks. But on the plus side, while you wait for your rescue team to lift you out in an uncomfortable harness that totally squeezes on your junk, zoning out to the ambient sounds of the unseen world around you is rad. That’s kind of what you get Third I’s Reaching Toward the Light. Broken up into two ten minute drones, this release guides you into the deep with the first track Nihilthrone and back out again with the title track Reaching Toward the Light. Throughout both tracks is some verbed out pings and pangs simulating the dripping of water from stalactites all around you while slow synthy sweeps work the low end and fill the void. The difference in the two is that Nihilthrone has a substantially darker tone, taking you into the abyss you find yourself in, while Reaching Toward the Light is the jam with a much more hopeful tone, like you’re being led out of said abyss. If you’re looking for something new to space out to, this is your ticket. No new ground is being broken here, but that’s not always a bad thing if you just want to get your drone on.
Unfortunately I don’t have the physical copy on hand, but you can get it or download it from Darker Days Ahead. If you come out of Reaching Toward the Light wanting more, the “prequel” to this release is also available on CD through Vomit Bucket. -
Patrick McBratney
suavecitation.com/post/41486442075/man-dont-you-just-hate-it-when-you-get-all
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"Reaching Toward The Light" review on Yeah, I Know it Sucks
The THIRD I delivers a track called ‘Nihilthrone’. It rumbles inside your ears with the vibrant low sounds that illustrates the walls of some kind of contemporary cave of audio. Inside this dark cave we can hear tones singing through its maze. The sounds of water drops dripping from the ceiling are turning this seemingly dark place in a musical piece that is not at all uncomfortable.
‘Reaching Toward The Light’ makes my ears think of being in the cave and seeing an exit way above me. A hole in the cave where the light shines through but too high up too reach and impossible to climb up too. The music got a feeling of acceptance to it and in my imaginary world I imagine being stuck in this cave for many days without food or any hope for help to get out of there. The light that shines through and the birds that can be heard echo-in through it, creates an state of mind that is knowing that there is nothing we can do than just lay down on the rocky bottom and listen to these sounds while we basically die of starvation and loneliness. It sounds perhaps a little too sad, but in reality I think the music is pretty relaxed and with this on my ears I wouldn’t mind to die in a cave..
No cave around? No worries as playing this release and closing your eyes and opening the third one, should be definitely enough to time travel to this specific moment in time and space. You can find it and more information at the link below:
thirdinoise.blogspot.com/2012/08/reaching-toward-light-out-now.html
yeahiknowitsucks.blog.com/2013/01/15/third-i-reaching-toward-the-light/
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Reaching Toward the Light review on
terapija.net
"Reaching Toward The Light" je jedan od do sada najneprohodnijih i najhermetičnijih radova Third I. Duboko je sofisticiran i povučen u samotnu autorsku intimu.
Genijalac nije biti lako sudeći po ovome radu. Third I evo već sedmu godinu za redom neprekidno održavaju kreativni tok s barem dva izdanja godišnje doguravši do svojeg 22. rada koji je ovaj puta EP ili skraćeni mini album od 20 minuta pakiran isključivo na audio kaseti. Samo dvije instrumentalne drone kompozicije "Nihilthrone" i "Reaching toward the light" i to je to.
Bespotrebno je sada teoretizirati i raspravljati šta, zašto i čemu služi ovakva teška ambijentalna glazba u kojoj se mahom u valovima repetiraju harme synthova, vokalnih nijemih arija i elektronskih procesora kroz prigušene i do bola usporene zvukove noise-harsha. Naizgled, može se steći čak i ugodan dojam mračne atmosfere bez imalo trunke optimizma, no autori su ovdje pribjegli rekapitulaciji vlastite unutarnje borbe sa samima sobom gotovo do mentalne poremećenosti. Onog stanja kada je ego pogođen vanjskim faktorima, kada se razum odvaja od stvarnosti u iracionalnost i podsvjesne nemire, kada nema jasnih razumskih objašnjenja i kada je logika podređena nagonu.
Zato su u obje kompozicije na valovito periodičku drone-ambient podlogu nanizani sitni staccato tonovi u nepravilnim, neurednim i kaotično nepovezanim sekvencama po dobro znanom pristupu Peter Christophersona. A takve eskapade nije niti najmanje lako odgonetnuti budući da neprekidno traju zajedno s mentalnom borbom u kojoj se postavljaju gomile pitanja na koja se ne otvaraju nikakva riješenja i ne naziru nikakvi konkretni odgovori.
Šta se točno zbiva u ovom unutarnjem nemiru, vrlo teško je dokučiti. Da li se kova neka osveta, nešto još opakije, ili je pak prikazano ono manično stanje uma kome manjka samo jedan korak do nervnog sloma. Ili nešto drugo? Ali kako god, nikada se ne želimo naći u takvom stanju koje je u životu kad-tad neminovno, a neke pogađa i po više puta uzrokujući stresove, depresije, pa i teška psihička oboljenja. Ovi majstori su upravo takvo stanje svijesti i duha dočarali na sebi svojstven i, reklo bi se, koliko-toliko prepoznatljiv način i tu sad nema šta da se filozofira isto kao i zašto je vajar neku skulpturu napravio čudnovato, van nekakvih konvencija i standarda. Zato jer je tako htio i jer mu tako nalaže kreativan umjetnički duh.
ocjena albuma [1-10]: 7
horvi // 03/09/2012
www.terapija.net/mjuzik.asp?ID=14737
released April 8, 2012
