Like Vonnegut’s intergalactic time traveller Billy Pilgrim, Širom seem to be unstuck in time. The invisible forces of these breathtaking landscapes cannot be separated from the musicians’ inner landscapes, which ultimately take form in Širom’s esoteric soundscapes. While its members Samo Kutin and Ana Kravanja come from the western part of Slovenia (the former from the idyllic Alpine foothills of Tolminsko region and the latter from the Karst Plateau, known for its expansive underground cave systems), Iztok Koren is the son of the flatlands surrounding the Mura River in the northeasternmost part the country. Their musical expression is informed by a nexus of historical circumstances, local and global traditions and distinct personal sensibilities. Like fellow Slovenians Laibach, they are a lovechild of place, day and age. This trio could not have been conceived anywhere else on this planet. Their fourth album The Liquified Throne Of Simplicity was recently voted as this site's album of the year so far. With their imagination completely off the leash, Širom conjure some of the most thrilling and mysterious music of the moment. The trio employs various techniques, practices and more than a dozen instruments, taking reference from vast libraries of ancient, new and made up sounds.
Consisting of three self-taught musicians and experienced improvisers, their acoustic music ingeniously connects the dots between past and present. Širom is a mystical entity self-described as an imaginary folk act representing the rural underground. Janez Škof in the documentary Rural Underground But death is a miracle as well, and that is Širom.” And thank god not, since it's death that lies there. Sometimes it's knocking on these rocky walls and the door almost opens, but not all the way. The gameplay is tight, the music rocks, and the whole package just exudes that special brand of comfy charm you only come across once in a blue moon with an indie (your Hat in Times, your Yooka-Laylees) so I cannot recommend it enough.“I find that Širom, when playing, is making itself. “We are happy to announce that Freedom Planet 2 will be launching in Spring 2022! We hope you look forward to it!” exclaims the Tweet cheerily, with a remixed trailer for the game (which originally debuted in 2019) attached therein.įor the uninitiated, Freedom Planet puts you in the comically oversized shoes of Lilac the Dragon, and a whole host of side characters fresh off the DeviantArt drawing board, as you dash, hop and loop-de-loop your way through a variety of gorgeous pixelized environments. GalaxyTrail ? SeptemPresumably ‘IndieLand’ is a site concerning indie games, and not a gathering place for rabid Harrison Ford fans. In the meantime, we've prepared a remix of our 2019 trailer for IndieLand with updated gameplay clips, including our new world maps. We are happy to announce that Freedom Planet 2 will be launching in Spring 2022! We hope you look forward to it!
Publisher GalaxyTrail broke the news on Twitter, so have a look: I am of course referring to the sequel to Freedom Planet one of the most fantastic 2D indie platformers in donkey’s (hedgehog’s? Echidna’s?) years. Only you’re not blue, not a spiked nocturnal mammal, and not called Sonic. It’s with great pleasure that we can report a brand new, likely excellent, Sonic game will be releasing next spring. There’s a political allegory in there somewhere, I’m sure. While the big mega-corporation refuses to satisfy our needs, the humble independent developer steps up to the plate once again to fill this particular void. (For the record, Unleashed is my favourite 3D Sonic, and that lifted its lid with a CG trailer too, so clearly it’s not impossible).īut fear not, O frustrated ones. Let’s just hope the course of fate corrects itself this time. Which, worryingly, is how it started for Forces. After all, it’s pushing four years now since Forces, the last mainline game, and thus far all we’ve seen of Totally-Not-Called-Sonic-Rangers-Please-Ignore-The-Leaks is a brief CGI trailer. Considering we’re currently in the throes of the guy’s 30th anniversary, the silence is somewhat off-putting.
With SEGA being so insistently light on details concerning Sonic’s next adventure, it’s understandable that fans of the hedgehog are getting a little impatient and antsy.