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Halo (Azonic album)

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Released
  
July 1, 1994

Release date
  
1 July 1994

Label
  
Strata

Length
  
46:03

Producer
  
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Recorded
  
Greenpoint Studios(Brooklyn, NY)

Halo(1994)
  
Genres
  
Drone music, Experimental rock

Similar
  
Undertow, Cyclotron, Subsonic 3: Skinner's Black Lab, Dub Terror Exhaust, Before Ever After

Halo is the debut album of guitarist and composer Andy Hawkins, issued under the moniker Azonic. It was released on July 1, 1994 by Strata Records. Marking a departure from his work with Blind Idiot God, the album comprises four lengthy improvised guitar drones accompanied by electronics. Hawkins described the music as "violent ambiance, harnessing the resonant frequencies of the void to take you out of the here and now."

Contents

Critical reception

In writing for Allmusic, critic Brian Olewnick praised Hawkins' passionate and inventive playing style, saying "Hawkins manages to wring some tasty juice from an area, post-Hendrix rock guitar, that most would have considered long since dry." In 2006, The Wire described Halo as "a criminally overlooked post-Metal masterpiece" and called Hawkins "a master of oceanic reverb and sustain, turning riffs from concrete slabs to gentle, body-caressing ripples."

Track listing

All music composed by Andy Hawkins.

Personnel

Adapted from the Halo liner notes.

Songs

1Beyond the Pale10:17
2Shore12:34
3Headwaters11:25

References

Halo (Azonic album) Wikipedia


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