False Awakening Loops

Cling on to dear hope when enteringthe world of BOLT RUIN.His second installment on theInfinite Machine labelscores his parasomniac dreams with an unsettling ambient soundtrack of sheer apocalyptic beauty. On anewrelease dubbed'False Awakening Loops'the Belgian producer delivers an ethereal synth-heavy score to a non-existing motion picture film, where the borders between reality, multiple dreams and flashbacks of the protagonist are unclear. The concept of the record is rooted in BOLT RUIN'spersonal experience with episodes of parasomnia, acatch-all term forunusual events while asleep, like nested dreams and sleep paralysis.

The follow-up to 'Ehkta' (Infinite Machine, 2022) sees BOLT RUIN reasserting himself as a crafter of cinematic landscapes with a singular voice. Continuing to explore theeerie waves of drone-infused electronics,he fearlessly interweavescinematic sound palettes, distorted field recordings, twisted industrial rhythms and crunching textures that come crashing down. Bound by depth in sound design, the EP contains six sonic equivalents of a loop dream, each envisioning a state of limbo where hope seems lost at first glance. But even in the most ominous of places, light is to be found.

At the core of this record lies BOLT RUIN'spersonal experience withnested dreams and sleep paralysis. 'False Awakening Loops' is intended as the score to the mental dream images that linger in his mind as a forgotten script. Only an old monochrome photograph of a child on a wooden raft (see artwork by Bavo Hendrickx) serves as a rare physical trace to this parallel dream world. From here on, brief excerpts of scenes are what we have at our disposal: a protagonist is enchanted by alluring voices in a deserted forest and interrupts a ceremonial rite (Aevoid), doors follow each other one after the other in an endlessly looping dream (Ehkt), the blinding beams of a desolate lighthouse causes one to fall of a cliff (Phaer ft. Amenra collaborator and double bass player Innerwoud), a dilapidated mansion pushes one to question your own sanity (Wrekth) and an isolated cabin sailboat at a restless sea while indistinct sounds are creeping closer (Aerhk)… These are the eerie settings of the dreams that plague the main character of 'False Awakening Loops'. With such scenery in mind, the visionary compositions of BOLT RUINdeliver a new take on the horror score genrein an original and contemporary way.

First single'Skevr'featuring theKenyan born, Berlin based sound artist and producerKMRU is a beacon of light built on long lost memories of people that used to be in one's life. The track is a dreamlike ambient cut that gradually bathes in the warmth of nostalgia withcrumpled and broken tape loops of a piano motif as the anchorage. A tension field between repetition and shifting alteration grows,while field recordings from both BOLT RUIN and KMRU fill the depths of the sound space.The deformed repetitive piano is like a dreamy memory that keeps revisiting in the face of new elements and delusions that interweave.