Underwater Sleep Orchestra * Emmanuel Régis – Ambientblog
UNDERWATER SLEEP ORCHESTRA – OTHER SIDES OF NOWHERE
Underwater Sleep Orchestra is the name of the duo formed by Pär Boström and Bruce Moallem. Both artists are also known under different aliases: Cities Last Broadcast / Kammarheit (Pär) and God Body Disconnect (Bruce). All Cryo Chamber artists, so it’s only natural that their third album as Underwater Sleep Orchestra is once again released on that label.
Cryo Chamber is well known for its focus on ‘dark ambient with a cinematic edge’. Compared to most other releases on the label, I would not classify Other Sides Of Nowhere as ‘dark’ ambient. It’s ambient, and definitely ambient with a cinematic edge’.
The music is created with synthesizers and pedals, tape recorders, and field recordings, and then the music is ‘processed through VHS tape, for fans of dreamy retro atmospherics and VHS drifting’. Whatever that ‘VHS drifting’ may mean, the process surely adds a nice analog-sounding layer to the music.
Somewhat surprisingly, the album ends with a vocal (/whispered) track, fittingly titled ‘Home Is Where You Left Your Ghost’.
There’s not much more info about this album, but there is a clue as to how best to listen to it: “You are lost again, somewhere in the fog, within yourself and your wistfulness”. Sleeping underwater is not necessary to enjoy this album and is not recommended. At least not without the proper equipment.
EMMANUEL RÉGIS – CRUVIRE PLANET
Cruvire Planet is the sonic environment that Emmanuel Régis created for the ‘Les Oniriques‘ (‘the dreamers’) festival exhibition in Meyzieu, France, earlier in 2025.
This multimedia exhibition depicted the imaginary expedition to the ‘frozen planet Cruivire’. It was part of the larger ‘Project Ruins’ (“Take the place of the explorer who has traveled to ruined worlds’).
Régis is one of the three ‘explocreateurs’ responsible for these projects, together with Pascal Casolari (painter) and Emmanuel Quentin (writer)
Should you want to know more about this particular project, there’s a book available to find out more about the story, but it’s available in French only (as are the websites about this project).
As expected, the soundtrack to this imaginary expedition to a hitherto unknown planet has a nice spacey sci-fi feel.
With 32 minutes, it is relatively short: the main track, ‘The Sounds Of Cruvire Planet’, is just 25 minutes. I assume it was played on loop in the exhibition space. The second track, called ‘The Temple And Dark Matter’, is slightly over 7 minutes long and was probably heard in a separate room.
Since this is the music only, you’ll have to fill in the gaps with your own fantasy. Emmanuel Régis recommends listening to the album with headphones, ‘for an immersive experience’.
Cruvire Planet is a digital-only release.
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