Aarktica - No Solace in Sleep (2025 Remaster) (2000) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Aarktica
- Title: No Solace in Sleep (2025 Remaster)
- Year Of Release: 2000/2025
- Label: Projekt Archive
- Genre: Ambient, Indie Rock
- Quality: FLAC 24/44100
- Total Time: 01:04:14
- Total Size: 551 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Aarktica’s influential 2000 debut NO SOLACE IN SLEEP approaches glacial guitar ambient from a post-rock perspective, enveloping the listener into a new sonic world of haunting, aquatic darkness and shimmering tonal light.
Godsend: Excellent and gently lulling ambient/drone frequencies from Jon DeRosa, who combines guitars and effects into a distinctly unified sound ala SEEFEEL but minus the beats and vocals. The icy, melodic aural terrain has a soft, introspective feel that conjures images of slowly enveloping fields of snow and trees swaying in a cold wintry wind. Just gorgeous work that’s well recommended.
In the fall of 2000, Aarktica's debut NO SOLACE IN SLEEP enchanted listeners with quietly majestic, blissed-out tape hiss lullabies and slow-motion ambient compositions that unfolded as subtly as an ice floe drifting in the ocean. One listener described the headphone experience as “like being in the womb,” evoking feelings of both solitude and comfort. Another imagined it as “the sound of ice melting," and one early review declared that it "tapped directly into the heart of something older than speech" with the depth of melancholy and emotion it aroused.
On the 25th anniversary of Aarktica's most popular work, the music continues to deeply connect with listeners. This faithfully remastered edition -- handled by ambient/electronic pioneer Taylor Deupree at 12k -- shines a subtle new light on this classic, reminding why the resonance of these compositions remains strong after all these years.
When asked about the origin story of Aarktica, which begins with NO SOLACE IN SLEEP, founder and sole member Jon DeRosa explains, “In 1998, I went deaf in my right ear. That's how it started." As DeRosa struggled through self-consciousness about his impairment and disorienting auditory hallucinations, he found nightly solace in a warbly 4-track cassette recorder on which he began recording the songs that would become NSIS. “The intention was to translate this new version of sound I was experiencing into something I could make sense of,” confesses DeRosa.
The resulting NO SOLACE IN SLEEP envelops the listener into DeRosa’s new sonic world, one of haunting, aquatic darkness and shimmering tonal light. DeRosa pays homage to his influences by blending them like ripples overlapping in a pond. From the gentle, unfolding echoes and crushing distortion of the opener “Glacia,” to the haunting chorale-like arrangement of “The Ice (Feels Three Feet Thick Between Us),” to the ring-modulated arpeggios of “You Have Cured a Million Ghosts From Roaming in My Head,” we can hear nods to modern classical composers like La Monte Young and Ingram Marshall as well as indie artists like Windy & Carl and Flying Saucer Attack.
The enigmatic musical appeal of NO SOLACE IN SLEEP seems to arise from DeRosa's approaching ambient music from a post-punk perspective. One can hear melodic reflections of Durutti Column or Felt submerged in the oceanic waves of distortion and delay. All the sounds are coming from a guitar and pedals (and a voice, in one instance) with no synthesizers. And yet, DeRosa's classical background also provides a compositional framework for how these tracks unfold. It's this merging of seemingly disparate styles into something singular and unique that makes it special.
25 years later, DeRosa’s guitar work still sounds innovative, generating tones that sound like shifting icebergs and subzero winds across a desolate tundra. And then all at once conjuring something so gentle, crystalline and comforting as a warm hearth in the midst of an ice storm. It’s a deeply affecting listening experience that continues to resonate after all these years.
+ “You Have Cured a Million Ghosts From Roaming In My Head” was featured on the soundtrack for the acclaimed documentary THE CRASH REEL by director Lucy Walker. The soundtrack also featured artists Chemical Brothers, Spiritualized, Tycho, Moby and The Chemical Brothers among others.
+ NO SOLACE IN SLEEP was remastered by ambient/electronic pioneer Taylor Deupree at 12k
+ Aarktica's new full-length album ECSTATIC LIGHTSONGS will be released in fall 2025
Tracklist:
1-1 Aarktica - Glacia (2025 Remaster) [13:36]
1-2 Aarktica - Indie (2025 Remaster) [6:54]
1-3 Aarktica - Elena (2025 Remaster) [4:24]
1-4 Aarktica - You Have Cured a Million Ghosts From Roaming in My Head (2025 Remaster) [3:33]
1-5 Aarktica - Inebria (2025 Remaster) [10:40]
1-6 Aarktica - The Ice (Feels Three Feet Thick Between Us) (2025 Remaster) [5:24]
1-7 Aarktica - Welcome Home (2025 Remaster) [8:05]
1-8 Aarktica - I Remember Life Above The Surface (2025 Remaster) [11:38]
Godsend: Excellent and gently lulling ambient/drone frequencies from Jon DeRosa, who combines guitars and effects into a distinctly unified sound ala SEEFEEL but minus the beats and vocals. The icy, melodic aural terrain has a soft, introspective feel that conjures images of slowly enveloping fields of snow and trees swaying in a cold wintry wind. Just gorgeous work that’s well recommended.
In the fall of 2000, Aarktica's debut NO SOLACE IN SLEEP enchanted listeners with quietly majestic, blissed-out tape hiss lullabies and slow-motion ambient compositions that unfolded as subtly as an ice floe drifting in the ocean. One listener described the headphone experience as “like being in the womb,” evoking feelings of both solitude and comfort. Another imagined it as “the sound of ice melting," and one early review declared that it "tapped directly into the heart of something older than speech" with the depth of melancholy and emotion it aroused.
On the 25th anniversary of Aarktica's most popular work, the music continues to deeply connect with listeners. This faithfully remastered edition -- handled by ambient/electronic pioneer Taylor Deupree at 12k -- shines a subtle new light on this classic, reminding why the resonance of these compositions remains strong after all these years.
When asked about the origin story of Aarktica, which begins with NO SOLACE IN SLEEP, founder and sole member Jon DeRosa explains, “In 1998, I went deaf in my right ear. That's how it started." As DeRosa struggled through self-consciousness about his impairment and disorienting auditory hallucinations, he found nightly solace in a warbly 4-track cassette recorder on which he began recording the songs that would become NSIS. “The intention was to translate this new version of sound I was experiencing into something I could make sense of,” confesses DeRosa.
The resulting NO SOLACE IN SLEEP envelops the listener into DeRosa’s new sonic world, one of haunting, aquatic darkness and shimmering tonal light. DeRosa pays homage to his influences by blending them like ripples overlapping in a pond. From the gentle, unfolding echoes and crushing distortion of the opener “Glacia,” to the haunting chorale-like arrangement of “The Ice (Feels Three Feet Thick Between Us),” to the ring-modulated arpeggios of “You Have Cured a Million Ghosts From Roaming in My Head,” we can hear nods to modern classical composers like La Monte Young and Ingram Marshall as well as indie artists like Windy & Carl and Flying Saucer Attack.
The enigmatic musical appeal of NO SOLACE IN SLEEP seems to arise from DeRosa's approaching ambient music from a post-punk perspective. One can hear melodic reflections of Durutti Column or Felt submerged in the oceanic waves of distortion and delay. All the sounds are coming from a guitar and pedals (and a voice, in one instance) with no synthesizers. And yet, DeRosa's classical background also provides a compositional framework for how these tracks unfold. It's this merging of seemingly disparate styles into something singular and unique that makes it special.
25 years later, DeRosa’s guitar work still sounds innovative, generating tones that sound like shifting icebergs and subzero winds across a desolate tundra. And then all at once conjuring something so gentle, crystalline and comforting as a warm hearth in the midst of an ice storm. It’s a deeply affecting listening experience that continues to resonate after all these years.
+ “You Have Cured a Million Ghosts From Roaming In My Head” was featured on the soundtrack for the acclaimed documentary THE CRASH REEL by director Lucy Walker. The soundtrack also featured artists Chemical Brothers, Spiritualized, Tycho, Moby and The Chemical Brothers among others.
+ NO SOLACE IN SLEEP was remastered by ambient/electronic pioneer Taylor Deupree at 12k
+ Aarktica's new full-length album ECSTATIC LIGHTSONGS will be released in fall 2025
Tracklist:
1-1 Aarktica - Glacia (2025 Remaster) [13:36]
1-2 Aarktica - Indie (2025 Remaster) [6:54]
1-3 Aarktica - Elena (2025 Remaster) [4:24]
1-4 Aarktica - You Have Cured a Million Ghosts From Roaming in My Head (2025 Remaster) [3:33]
1-5 Aarktica - Inebria (2025 Remaster) [10:40]
1-6 Aarktica - The Ice (Feels Three Feet Thick Between Us) (2025 Remaster) [5:24]
1-7 Aarktica - Welcome Home (2025 Remaster) [8:05]
1-8 Aarktica - I Remember Life Above The Surface (2025 Remaster) [11:38]
| Rock | Ambient | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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