Fires Of Ork, The - The Fires Of Ork 2

This is a feeble album, hardly worthy of the "ambient" epithet. Like so many similar releases, the album is littered with clichés & hackneyed ideas of what ambient should be. Far from approaching any kind of “beauty”, the result is just bland and boring. A tediously overlong drift through a sadly (and, at times, laughably) predictable soundscape, this is most definitely to be played solely as background music. But only when you've already left the house. Avoid.

While the first Fires of Ork was very impressive, this one is simply beautiful. Starts with Biospher-ish "In Heaven", the title speaks for itself. The best on the album imho. Then we've got dark, minimal "When the Night...", something to listen to in the night, in the wintertime... Then we come back to ambient soundscapes of "Sky Lounge", again feeling that it was Jenssen who did it. For the fourth track you have to focus your mind - once more some minimalism there... And the last track, the longest, maybe made with (by?) some new machines, is a little bit comeback of the old days, maybe of the first "Fires...". Hope they will meet again for a third album of such importance for ambient music.