'...it is then that I look up and I see — I — see it: the sea. For the first time, after days and days, I really see it. And I hear its immense voice and powerful smell and, inside, its unstoppable dance, an infinite wave. Everything disappears and nothing remains but the sea, before me, upon me. A revelation. The pall of anguish and fear that has gripped my soul fades away, the web of infamy, cruelty, and horror that has ravished my eyes falls apart, the shadow of death that has devoured my mind dissolves, and in the sudden light of an unexpected clarity I finally see, and hear, and understand. The sea. It had seemed a spectator, even silent, even an accomplice. It had seemed a frame, a stage set, a backdrop. Now I look at it and I see: the sea was everything. It was everything, right from the first moment. I see it dancing around me, sumptuous in an icy light, a marvelous, infinite world. The sea was in the hands that killed, in the dead who were dying, the sea was in the hunger and thirst, the sea was in the torment, in the baseness and the madness, the sea was the hatred and the desperation, mercy and sacrifice, the sea is this blood and this meat, the sea is this horror and this splendor. There is no raft, there are no men, there are no words, feelings, gestures, nothing. There are no guilty and no innocent, condemned and saved.
There is only the sea. All things have become the sea.'
Alessandro Baricco, 'Ocean Sea'
This is a split album with Endless Melancholy:
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Reviews:
Алексей Сакевич из киевской пост-роковой формации Sleeping Bear с течением времени воплощает в реальность свои сольные проекты, которые диктует воздух окружающего пространства. Леша ловит лишь его глотки и лишь фиксирует. Данная пластинка — сплит его детища Endless Melancholy с казанским проектом одного человека по имени Constantine Horizon - Desolate Horizons. Пять треков Алексея — это земля и вода, пять треков Кости — это огонь и воздух. Так они и нашли контакт, воплотив из двух половин цельную картину отдельно взятого мира двух похожих людей. Картину того мира, который один на всех, но постичь его удается к счастью далеко не каждому. Этот альбом — очередная попытка постижения.
(с) Саша Пролетарский //
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Although they might come from opposite ends of the ambient spectrum, both Endless Melancholy and Desolate Horizons both possess a common and unshakable vision for their music. Though differing in form, both artists have come together for the first time, creating a split album that is quite literally as ‘Deep As the Dark Blue Sea’.
Endless Melancholy is a constant innovator who holds his influences firmly in ambient and modern classical music, while Desolate horizons has its roots founded in the world of drone and shoegaze, and yet together they have managed to cultivate an album that holds dear the sea, the love, and the dream.
Led by an epigraph that has been plucked delicately from Alessandro Baricco’s novel ‘Ocean Sea’, ‘Deep As The Dark Blue Sea’ contains five tracks from each artist, forming two distinct musical journeys that lead to a single, expansive destination.
Opening with Endless Melancholy’s contribution, ‘Deep As The Dark Blue Sea’ arrives with waves lapping over darkened shores, accompanied only by a growing band of classical sounds and melodic flourishes. It’s a slowly building approach to the album and its themes, one that grows stronger and more pronounced with each of Endless Melancholy’s songs, encapsulating the wonder and dark power of the sea perfectly in ‘A Giant Wave’, while also dedicating time and sound to the more delicate, beautiful, and expansive elements of the sea in ‘Reflections’.
Desolate Horizon’s contribution is far more elemental based, working with drawn out sounds and ambient textures to showcase the unfolding drama and steady heart of the sea. His works all grows subtly from a haze of static, drawing themselves into existence through hints of a harmony or a microsecond of melody. They’re flowing, heavily organic pieces that conjure visceral dreams of a sun-soaked ocean lapping against your skin, drawing romantic notions to spark in ‘Your Echoes Drift Through Me Likes Waves Caressing the Shores’, and wondrous possibilities to blossom in ‘Like whispers Lost at Sea, We Soar’.
In the end, there’s little more to do than marvel at the quality of ‘Deep As The Dark Blue Sea’, with two brilliant talents combining to forge a singular vision. Each half of the release comes with a wondrous sense of individuality with both artists applying their sounds brilliantly, but the overall cohesion between the two makes it an almost seamless triumph.
(с) Anthem Review //
www.anthemreview.net/post/145205879941/desolate-horizons-endless-melancholy-deep-as 
