From my upcoming dark ambient noir album, Murken Hollow. 

https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/murken-hollow

What actually happened that cold and misty November remained a mystery, but the cases were connected, that much was clear.

Ten murders across the city and a myriad of frankly surreal circumstances and evidence that made no sense. At each crime scene strange piles of singed black flakes surrounded a body laid out with no obvious cause of death. Nearby mirrors cast no reflection and looked like endless black pools of nothingness that almost hurt to look into. And in the pocket of each victim, a cryptic letter with inverted writing and a ticket stub from the sleepy town of Murken Hollow.

The detective poured the last dregs of a bottle into a coffee mug while drawing on a cigarette, a permanent look of despair wrinkled his brow. The dingy office was smoky and dark, half lit from the street lights beyond the frosted windows so the shadows hung long and moved with the traffic. On the wall an elaborate pin board littered in string and polaroids in an attempt to make sense of it all, but with no prints or sign of intruders the distant town of Murken Hollow was the only possible lead.

And then from under a pile of papers on the messy desk, the phone rang... Another murder.

Murken Hollow

Chasing Shadows (Part I)

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Dark ambient musical storytelling.

Releasing music on https://soundcloud.com/cryo-chamber
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Sigmaman is a composer and singer of cross-over pop. His music is a big melting-pot of electronica, folk, classical music, vocal harmonies and musical drama.

For the Out Of The Box EP, Nabil Khazzaka decided to change his stagename to Sigmaman. The album is produced by himself and mixed by audio engineer Jean-Pierre Kerkhofs from Artsound Studio (Belgium). Prior to that EP he released the gloomy lockdown-EP The Man With The Golden Tie (2021) and the full album 'It's Hot! It's Hot! It's Hot'. (2012)

Sigmaman  has always been admired for his audacity and humour: musically, lyrically and visually.

I am Artur Tokhtash, a composer and sound artist.
My music unfolds at the intersection of classical tradition and sonic art: preludes, improvisations, and electroacoustic structures are not genres, but forms of memory and breath.

For me, sound is ritual. Each piece is not merely a composition but a trace of presence, an echo of vanished spaces, a light from places that may no longer exist.
The piano, in my preludes, becomes a vessel — an instrument that carries not only melody but also the silence between notes.

My works do not function as background. They are spaces for listening, inviting the listener into a state where music becomes both signal and transformation.

Chasing Shadows (Part I)

Dead Melodies