Immediately before hitting that play button, I suggest headphones for this piece, turning off all modern devices, finding that right moment and drifting away with this ambient soundscape that captures the mood and feel of the concept.
So hit that play button and unwind, embrace the music; as soon as the listener presses that button, one is welcome to the opening track Sirius, where one is welcome to a dark synth/dreamscape atmosphere – that takes the listener on a remarkable journey. Explores the first known thematic remains of humankind – Gobekli Tepe – a Neolithic archaeological site in South-eastern Anatolia, Turkey.
Following suit with the second track, Reverie, and the seven remaining pieces, where the music creates this soundscape/atmosphere piece, which is interwoven together perfectly.
Thus creating an altogether piece that’s charming/smoothing (relaxing at times), beautiful/tranquil, epic, dark (spacey) trance-like, ominous/mysterious, dark droning/melancholy mood/feeling. Female/male chants/spoken passages, shamanic/ ritualism atmosphere (soundscape) that channels the celestial plane, and so much more. Each composition is used at the right moment and depending on the needs of the individual song while capturing the influencing of ambient, dark ambient and dark synth genres.
Simultaneously, the album creates this captivation and remarkable entertaining and theatrically release, delivering a fantastic epic piece that embraces spirituality and ancient ruin feeling/atmosphere while channelling elements/influences of ambient, electronic music, darkwave, dungeon synth, and much more —topped off with extraordinary devilmanship and compositions.
Bektas, who carries out all the recording, mixing and mastering processes of the album, attempts to bring the deep traces of this ancient history to us here in modern times. Using his unique musical intuition, which has been heavily influenced through his extensive research into the mysteries of our past.
The album comes to an end with the last song, Reverie ~ Yetzer Remix Version. We want to give a shoutout to Ruins Of Xibalba for letting us review his Gobeklitepe album. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.
