"A potent brew of the most interesting aspects of musique nouvelle, experimental, and musique concrete, forming a sound so new as to make it uncategorizable. Serious music, audiophile quality and beautiful art concept make this release a must have for any music collector".

(Mundus Subterraneus). Glenn Hammet, music reviewer (Absolute Sound, Audio Adventure, Listen, I.E., Tracking Angle).

 

Lightwave explores the space under the soil. MUNDUS SUBTERRANEUS is a subconscious tour of a futuristic underworld -- where technological agents and Old World daemons frolic together. This bold new work blends together the grandeur of contemporary ambience with avant garde elements of classical music. The execution is by turns hypnotic, frightening and mischievous, and marks a bold new step in Lightwave's smelting of ambient music with musique concrete and chamber music. The album opens with a descent into a world of darkness with "De Motu Pendulorum."

A mysterious blend of gentle ambience and prescient danger, it leads to occult disturbances residing within the "Cabinet de Curiosites," as the musicians divulge strange and eccentric sounds reminiscent of the expressionist design of Robert Wiene's THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI. Digging deeper, the music strikes bedrock in "Sonnenst&uumlrme." Here, low, rumbling frequencies provide counterpoint for the violins and synthesizers of contemporary music, as if the Grendels of the past mock and jeer at frail scientific rationale. "Glissement d'Ame" opens upon a strange cave of archaic notions, and Jacques Deregnaucourt's violin solo leads the listener down a recluse's path to a place of arcane scholarship ("Roma Barocca").

Finally, hidden musings yield to brilliant realization, and a transcendent comprehension of a deeper truth comes to light ("Ascension"). We leave the underworld of Kircher as we found it: "Mapping the Earth" promises future trips into the abyss of one man's (and Lightwave's) dark wonder.

Lightwave continues to bridge the gap from early electronic pioneers, such as Richard Pinhas and Klaus Schulze, to modern elements led by Robert Rich, David Sylvian and Future Sound of London. Lightwave takes inspiration from the visionaries of the past to forge uncompromising audio visions of the near future.

A Subconscious Tour of a futuristic underworld, Mundus Subterraneus is a bold new step in Lightwave's smelting of ambient music with musique concrete and the avant garde elements of classical chamber music. Wittman, Harbonnier and Haslinger bridge the gap between the early electronic pioneers like Richard Pinhas and Klaus Schulze, and the modern practitioners led by Robert Rich, David Sylvian and Future Soud of London. Lightwave takes inspiration from the visionaries of the past to forge uncompromising audio visions of the near future".

(Mundus Subterraneus). David Spalding, music reviewer Online.

"... always looking out for a new musical dialect, borrowing from unconventional semantics and matrix algebre, Lightwave explores with bated breath the meanders of its electronic instruments, more creatively than ever before...

(Mundus Subterraneus) Keyboards (France)