Hello friends!

The church bells ring in the background this early sunday, as my thoughts veer back into the past, and what Autaar has meant for me as a person.

This project has always been a rather close representation of my inner workings, and my perspective on the world around me. An intermingling of vast views and tiny experience, yet strongly connected by the encompassing drone. Fundamental note, essential reverberation, base frequency. Drone as core tenet of human auditory experience: The heartbeat field of the universe.

So today marks the release of my retrospective album “Het Zelve Lichaem”. It reflects on my early dungeon-synth, the synth-driven ambient forays, noise-drone experimentation with cassette tapes, and various approaches to composing “As if you’re lookign at a painting, not really to dance to.”

This release is a roadmap of this turbulent life of mine, these past 6 years. Ups and downs.

Enjoy with discretion.

I love you all,

Mark (Autaar)

About the album

Autaar’s eighth solo release is a look back onto the early years. It contains the harsh mono tape soundscapes from the early 2020’s, and the first forays into synthesizer-driven ambient.

A rough, dusty, dark atmosphere envelops meandering saturated tape sounds. Although there is a semblance of melodic structure, the end-result is oppressive and harsh, and definitely drone.

The release sounds like Autaar’s visuals: The crushing pressure of cities, afloat by sheer belief. Filled with propagandistic religious forms. Shreds of decaying iconography, streets like altars, under dark buildings. Like columns, holding up the heavens.

Hypnotizing synth-loops, floating sweeps, and tape-saturated drones abound here, and the feeling of being in a dusty, dirty, and quite ancient stone corridor never quite leaves you.

The album is available as a digital download on Bandcamp, and on all major streaming platforms.