BELORUSIA Takes Us Out of a Conscious Linear Sense of Time in the Collage Drones of “Non Era”

BELORUSIA_NonEra1_crop — BELORUSIA “Non Era” cover

In naming this song “Non Era” BELORUSIA perhaps gives us a lens by which to interpret its layers of streaming drone. There is a great sense of space but one conveyed as if a collage of projected visuals with layers taking on different degrees of opacity. We hear an underlying drone bordering on a hazy wind of a sound, other drones flood in and hop back and forth between a higher and lower frequency, giving a bright tone with two different frequencies perhaps the difference between a bright blue and a luminescent violet. It sounds like what a time lapse film of an overnight flight through banks of clouds into the dawn looks like. It conveys a sense of time but one not tied to the utility of time as we often impose on time in our everyday lives to give it the contexual meaning that connotes such things as an era. Fans of the less guitar-oriented compositions by The Sight Below, Labradford and Stars of the Lid will find some of the same kind of mystery and sense of psychological vistas here. Listen to “Non Era” on Spotify and follow BELORUSIA at the links provided.