Now available as download. Other formats will be made available in near future.
Grey Bloom Complete gathers early material by Niko Skorpio from 1996–98, containing
the tracks from Grey Bloom LP originally released ten years ago, and recordings done for the defunct
Cold Once Turning Dust project. Remastered autumn 2007. The recordings were made on a portable
Fostex 4-tracker. Tape hiss, crackles and other noises are considered essential, inherent elements in these
recordings and have thus been preserved in amounts optimal to create and maintain the particular atmosphere.
"What we have here are some of the primal recordings of an artist who has shed his skin and regained a new
creative urge leading to domains unknown. There is virtually nothing on these recordings that would suggest his
past in doom metal or goth/shoegaze bands (Thergothon and This Empty Flow). This is isolationist soundscape muzak
and ambient noise eccentricity that draws from wholly Other currents of inspiration. Besides that, if you listen
carefully, you might find a curious stain of ‘pop’ sensibility under all the bleak grey mud. These primal
clawprints indicate that from very early on Niko Skorpio has been treading his very own path, away and separate
from the few other Finnish post-industrial and experimental artists who were around at the time." (Pekka Härmälä)
Track 1 originally released on Members ov Sonic Cults compilation tape (Negart: Kassettekult Katatonik
1997). Tracks 2–5 originally released on Grey Bloom: xero vol zero LP (Some Place Else 1998 / HAM012LP).
Tracks 6 and 8 originally released on Selected Dumbient Works CDR (Some Place Else 2002 / SPECDR02023).
Track 7 previously unreleased.