Press

„Obscured Instinct and the Pale Folklore című kiadványa a dark ambient terepére visz, olyan ismeretlen eredetű csontokkal kirakott üregekbe, amelyek mintha egy ősi pogányhorror-történetből kerülnének elénk.” …

Telekom Electronic Beats – Unger

https://www.electronicbeats.hu/swanasa-kokum/

„Here, I find myself in a musical landscape that I don’t know much about, the kind of ritual music that wasn’t my ‘thing’ in the ye olden days, but I started to enjoy it more over many years. If anything, I think Kokum’s music sounds very much inspired by the first few Current 93 albums, ‘Nature Unveiled and ‘Dogs Blood Rising’, an area of 93 I enjoyed a lot (any of their music until an acoustic guitar came into play, and it became folk music to my adolescent noise ears).”…

Vital Weekly – Frans de Waard

https://www.vitalweekly.net/number-1463/

„Un folklore pagano e rituale

L’idea di “folklore” che emerge da questo lavoro non ha nulla a che vedere con la musica folk tradizionale. Qui, Kokum ci introduce in un universo pagano, fatto di rituali oscuri, atmosfere dense e una spiritualità che sembra provenire da un tempo remoto. Le sue composizioni evocano paesaggi notturni, riti arcani e simbolismi che rimandano a una sacralità perduta, fondendo il terreno con l’ultraterreno.”…

Ver Sacrum – Cesare Buttaboni

https://www.versacrum.com/vs/2024/12/kokum-obscured-instinct-and-the-pale-folklore.html

„This macabre hypnotic sound escapism with prominent ritual elements can eventually find analogies with the music produced by Aural Hypnox or Zazen Prod, but the whole sound signature here is much more abstract, uncanny, unpalpable and hermetic. All in all Obscured Instinct and the pale Folklore is a cavernous, hymnic, and drone collection with incantatory voices and weird experimentalism.”…

Igloo Magazine - Philippe Blache

https://igloomag.com/reviews/kokum-obscured-instinct-and-the-pale-folklore-eighth-tower