The Answer Lies In The Black Void reveal cover of Massive Attack’s ‘Angel’

Pelagic Records unveil the second single from their new label compilation entitled The Dungeon Tapes, featuring previously unreleased music and cover songs from a variety of album artists.

Opening Side B is a unique cover of the Massive Attack classic ‘Angel’ from atmospheric doom duo The Answer Lies In The Black Void.

Stream and pre-order The Dungeon Tapes here: https://orcd.co/talitbv-angel

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Jason Köhnen states: 

“Choosing this song has a very strong personal story to it. ‘Angel’ is dedicated to one of my musical mentors, Carlton Franklin, an ‘old-school’ DJ who inadvertently taught me the power of musical climaxes and of the hypnotic strength of darkness. During his lengthy DJ sets in the mid 90s he would always drop ‘Angel’ in the peak of his set and was able to move the audience with his shifts of moods, playing the crowds extraordinarily and creating an amazing brooding trance. Unfortunately Carlton fell (terminally) ill and a crowdfunding was started for him named ‘Dead Man Sailing’, as a saling man and living on his boat, this would enable him to make a final sail in his yacht across the Atlantic Ocean. A powerful statement from a man who until the last day stayed true to his character and will play with death as he played the crowds, controlling the narrative until the night is over.” 

Drenched in the crushing weight of doom, with elements of ambience, electronica is backed-up by the gradual rise of wailing distortion, The Answer Lies In The Black Void create a suffocating density and fragile openness that expands this slow-burning revelation outward into a vast, transcendental soundscape.

Jason continues: 

“The challenge was to keep the same hypnotic drive as the original, but to add our own doomy and post-rock-esque climactic explosions as the song progresses. For the videoclip we interpreted the original story to our slightly more gothic version, but with the same storyline as the original placed in our own setting. Martina stayed close to Horace Andy‘s beautiful vocal lines adapting them to her own siren’s call.”

Also appearing on The Dungeon Tapes are such esteemed groups as Psychonaut, Lost In Kiev, Pothamus, Gösta Berlings Saga, Telepathy, and Spook The Horses. 

The Dungeon Tapes also will feature a stunning My Bloody Valentine cover recorded by members of Spotlights, Rosetta, Failure, Shy Low and Hiroe, appearing under the name Pelagic United.

The Dungeon Tapes will be released in physical (28th August) and digital (18th September) format.