Urku Llanthu is a Dark Folk/Dungeon Synth solo artist from Ecuador. 13th November 2020 saw the release of his “self-titled” studio album, which includes eight hypnotizing -yet beautiful songs that would gratify Meditation and Ancestral-spiritual Music fans. The album was released through his label, Takiri Productions.
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The First Three Sins of Urku Llanthu
Let’s start by discussing the first three sins of Urku Llanthu and his self-titled album
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Omitting all electrical instrumentals, part from the keyboard. And offers the listener with a instrumental environment of ambience and atmosphere, and traditional Andean wind/string instruments.. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involves omitting the vocals… The Third Sin—The Percussions: Delves into the vast world of various drum beats, percussions, and environment soundscapes.
The Fourth Sin: Overall Discussion:
Sounds of hypnotizing atmospheres & ancestral-spiritual music
Before heading into the music, don’t expect anything heavy, brutal, or extreme, but a connection with yourself and your mysterious and dark experiences of pure tranquil, meditation, relaxation, and ancestral-spiritual music from start to finish. One begins their ancestral journey with the intro track Urku Llanthu, the sound of relaxing mood and meditation, before heading into the first song following the intro.
Before heading further into Urku Llanthu’s realm, I suggest headphones and switching off all modern devices, setting the light to a limelight setting, sitting back and relaxing (either a candlelight bath).
Bracing the sound and the ambience of this one-person project gives the listener an ear-to-ear experience of very well-thought-through arrangements in the music and songs of bringing the music to life.
Urku Llanthu captures the soundscape of a running stream/river, the sound of the wind, the call of nature, and ancient folklore while incorporating musical instruments. This concludes by adding string instruments, percussion, harmonics such as piano, synths/keyboards, acoustic guitars, and wind instruments of the Andean region such as the Zampoña (Acoustic Wood Lurker) and the Quena (Wood Flute).
While merging dungeon synth, dark ambient, folk metal, and the ancestral Quechua dialect (that works), thus creating this perfect instrumental environment-atmosphere ambient music that captures various sounds and moods within the piece.
Giving the listener different experiences within the music by making music/songs either depressive, dark, bleak and sometimes creepy, horrifying but calming and tranquil/meditating at the same time.
Pablo Mesias (Atuk Urku Llanthu – pseudonym) maintains an attachment to the Andean world-view and the rescue of the ancestral language Quechua typical of many Indigenous peoples while creating this creativity and musical deliverance of fruit of art devilmanship. Seven beautiful, equally solid, strongly composed instrumental songs and a full-length release that is a fruit of art, from start to finish
As the album gradually fades into silence with the last song, Outro (Aya Puncha). Which closes with an ambient soundscape of ancestral-spiritual music, and a healing/meditation lullaby. We want to give a shoutout to Urku Llanthu for letting us review his Tarpuk Amsa album.
The Last Three Sins
Let’s discuss the last three sins of Urku Llanthu and his self-titled album
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia:
For us, how breathtakingly the music is, and composed and well-arranged, with a fruit of art devilmanship. While giving the listener a connection with oneself. At the same time, taking the listener to another world — an authentic experience…
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork:
Perfectly captures the instrumental environment of the music.
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish:
Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of Urku Llanthu and his self-titled album. Therefore, this concludes Urku Llanthu and his self-titled album review.
Members
Atuk Urku Llanthu (Pablo Mesias): songwriting, all instruments
Track-Listing
01. Intro (Urku Llanthu)
02. Illa Mank’a
03. Qhapac Ñan
04. Taki Nuna
05. Wapsi Sinchi
06. Ñawi Sinchi
07. Yuyariy
08. Yacgakuk
