Zone Black is the debut solo album by Emil Amos from Grails and OM, on this project the aim is to decommission music that was meant for the KPM library, as this album of Noir library synth pieces alters your background, taking you on a journey to a super dark club space, that features the albums naked cover star in chains sitting on a plinth.
The album opens with Moving Target a moody dark hearted synth-based tune with some odd horror film chuckling, that comes in and out of the mix, that needs turning up to hear all that's happening as we enter the disturbing world of Zone Black.
Theme From A Personal Prison finds Emil wrestling with his musical emotions, as this tune slowly tries to figure out exactly which Personal Prison Emil is trying to escape from, is it the drugs you need to make sounds like these, or is it a pent up sexual prison, indicated by the sighing whispered vocals that are too indistinct to be totally clear.
Zone Black is entered by giving the secret finger snapping signal, allowing the deep bass line to jar against the quivering synth wash.
Bad Night At Cowboys gives the impression you've been out clubbing at Cowboys, hoping to get lucky and failing miserably, as the gloom of the tight passage to the dark room, engulfs you in deeply off putting glitchy synths, that become nastier as you progress unmolested through the dark interior.
Personal Prison II has trumpets of doomed desire washing over acoustic guitar debilitated synth lines, as you query why you thought freedom was yours, as you look at the chains around your wrists, once more gazing out of the albums cover at you.
Red Palms is in dark celebration of whoever it was that gave you a good spanking last night, who after it was done had very red palms indeed, as this dungeon soundtrack slowly meanders, through this not so safe space.
Jealous Gods who had been quietly lurking voyeuristically, while you were spanked in the dungeon, start emerging through the synth scape, hoping to find the next willing victim of those magical Red Palms, they will be disappointed but not quite yet.
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Interloper #1 has made the error of intruding on your scene at a crucial moment, as the dark western cadences set up a confrontation with said Interloper, as they are made aware of Dungeon etiquette and asked to leave, this tune will follow them out of the club.
Zone Bleu is the chill out zone, as washes of oceanic wave like synths ululate as the almost morse code like deep drum part raps out a message to the gods, that all the drugs you've taken are about to hit at once, you will flip out.
Static Mist parts I & II is like sitting in a very dark chill out room that has been filled with dry ice and the cloud of Ice has settled down and isn't moving. The super slow keyboards wrestle with the odd bleep as you try to find a way to a less foggy part of the club.
Realistic #1 has babbling voices whispering in your ear it's time to break out some Yello and get moving on out of here, before the siren like sounds prove to be the police mutating before that bassline into something far scarier.
Blue Palms is ice cold synths, slowly leading us away from all the disarray, disconsolate diversions that are wrapped up in the cocoon of wavering synths, imagining the blue plastic palm trees by the exit.
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