Amnor - Dungeon Synth and Neo-Folk

[amnor]

Based in Utah County, Amnor is a side project of the Student of Rhythm, who also heads up Trebizond.
Here is a track from my album in progress - minimalist, kind of like a fugue.

soundcloud.com/studentofrhythm/were-it-possible-i-would-make-all-things-known-unto-you

The first Amnor album, Moribund Dominions, is here:

trebizond.bandcamp.com/album/moribund-dominions

[doomed]

Really liking the first album, sounds like the perfect soundtrack to walking through a forest, with each track being different encounters you have along the way.

[amnor]

Jan 17, 2024 20:55:25 GMT -5 doomed said:

Really liking the first album, sounds like the perfect soundtrack to walking through a forest, with each track being different encounters you have along the way.

I'm glad to read that, thank you!

[calignosia]

Great project! Very good drums and percussions and there are beautiful tunes too.

[amnor]

Jan 19, 2024 12:49:57 GMT -5 calignosia said:

Great project! Very good drums and percussions and there are beautiful tunes too.

Thanks!  Some of those tunes have been with me for years, some of them I may have dreamed.

[amnor]

The second Amnor album, In Them Days, is now available:


trebizond.bandcamp.com/album/in-them-days

[calignosia]

Jan 21, 2024 0:28:05 GMT -5 amnor said:

The second Amnor album, In Them Days, is now available:


trebizond.bandcamp.com/album/in-them-days

I will check it as soon as possible! Thank you.

[calignosia]

Very interesting your last track, nice folkloric and narrative sound passages. It's really original.
trebizond.bandcamp.com/track/mythopoeia

[andrewwerdna]

I listened to Moribund Dominions a few times and liked it quite a bit. It has a refreshing emotional austerity and simplicity, feels like getting back to nature, a good palette cleanser. A nice variety of moods and timbres between tracks too, kind of hard to pin down, sometimes feeling authentically ancient or medieval, other times oddball modern experimental. Maybe the "dungeon folk" tag would apply here? Also I am curious about the "book of mormon" tag, lots of intriguing possibilities with that...

[amnor]

Thanks guys, and thanks, Andrew, for the purchase. I appreciate those specific comments.
I didn't mean to go so long between my visits here.
"Dungeon Folk" - that's intriguing. I'll think about it.
As for the "book of mormon" tag, that's because the music is all inspired by themes from the book. (Nothing to do with that stage production.)

[amnor]

The latest Amnor release, Hermounts, is now available:


trebizond.bandcamp.com/album/hermounts


You might hear traces of influences such as Béla Bartók, King Crimson, Einstürzende Neubauten...  Not quite as conceptual, maybe a bit more varied.

This was all fingers in real time, no DAW, though I did edit and loop some parts.

[moreteeth]

I enjoyed the first work you linked here. This style of transgressional dungeon synth that's half dark ambient and half Alberto Balsalm is gaining some traction. For example, it reminds me quite a bit of Uskk.