White-Nose Syndrome, by Escaping Aghartha

White-Nose Syndrome

by Escaping Aghartha

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Jordan Vauvert Être en parfaite symbiose avec la neige : tel est le rêve que veulent réaliser nombre d'artistes qui officient dans le black metal atmosphérique — même le décès par hypothermie de Valfar, au-delà de sa dimension tragique, fait valeur de symbole.
Dans White-Nose Syndrome, Escaping Aghartha ne se situe pas dans ce courant de pensée. Son drone est un cauchemar glacial éveillé (comme un air de Neige et Noirceur...), un mausolée à ciel ouvert.
L'œuvre la plus poignante d'Avery Dart — de très loin.

bcb723 Am loving everything about the Escaping Aghartha project. Each release highlights a specific challenge caused by humanity towards the environment. The last record, he showed how we have fucked up the ocean. Now, on "White-Nose Syndrome" Avery Dart takes us on a 30 minute ambient noise exploration describing how a disease brought by humans into caves has impacted the bat population & its resulting ecological affect. Sound dense? Nah - play this shit loud & dive into this dude's mind. Astounding.

shower This is Escaping Aghartha's best release so far. It fully realizes its concept and makes leaps and bounds in production quality.

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	1.	Accepting Death Amidst an Inexorable Blizzard 30:03	lyrics	buy track
	Awakened in frigid cavern, weak and starving. Infected with foreign fungus. Nothing to eat - no solace to find. Kin stacked upon one other in a mass grave, frostbitten. Amidst the inexorable blizzard, death is accepted. They fall into the snow and embrace the nothingness. Awakened in frigid cavern, weak and starving. Infected with foreign fungus. Nothing to eat - no solace to find. Kin stacked upon one other in a mass grave, frostbitten. Amidst the inexorable blizzard, death is accepted. They fall into the snow and embrace the nothingness. Desolation caresses this bleak landscape. Dusk settles upon what becomes last sight: pines, crags, and frozen terrain. The maw of the void engulfs, and finality arrives.

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This experimental EP is themed around white-nose syndrome, a condition which affects hibernating North American bat species. It's caused by an invasive fungus from Europe, spread by people entering caves without decontaminating their clothes. The fungus grows in the noses of the bats as they hibernate, waking them in the middle of winter - and eventually killing them. This EP is meant to represent their emergence in winter, sick and freezing, trying to survive in a desolate, bleak, and frozen environment.

The awakened bats starve to death, as their insect prey is nowhere to be found in the depths of the cold months. Mortality rates of afflicted bats range from 70-90% on average. In 2012, it was estimated that nearly 7 million bats had perished from white-nose syndrome so far.

Many bat species are threatened by this fungus, three of them listed federally endangered. It's likely that if this trend continues, more bat species will become endangered or extinct. It's vital that action is taken to restrict entry into caves, preventing new caves from being contaminated with the fungus. Decontamination of clothing is important as well, for those who are permitted to enter.

Bats are ecologically important, as they're efficient predators of insects. In a night, a single bat can eat thousands of insects. All together, bats in the US provide a pest-control service to agriculture which is worth somewhere between 4 billion and 53 billion dollars.

More information here:
www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/bat_crisis_white-nose_syndrome/Q_and_A.html

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released January 8, 2021

Many thanks to Anghatengh for helping with vocals for this release!

Anghatengh: raw/clean/whispered vox
Avery Dart: raw/whispered vox and everything else

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The goal of Escaping Aghartha is to educate people about specific examples of ongoing destruction in the biological world, using extreme music as an educational tool.

Avery, a biologist, started Escaping Aghartha as an experimental solo project. Now Escaping Aghartha has started to feature skilled musicians on some releases. ... more

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