Faaip de Oiad is a one man project of guitarist Jakub Czyz who records at home in Katowice, Poland. In this city Metalmania has been held annually since 1986; an event that Wikipedia describes as "one of the biggest heavy metal festivals in Central Europe".
Czyz lists his influences as less riff-orientated prog/metal bands Mono, Pink Floyd and Tool and describes his music as "improvisations recorded under the influence of suitable weather". My guess is that dark clouds with an impending electric storm would constitute the ideal climatic conditions.
He gets his pseudonym from the title of the last track on Tool's 2001 album Lateralus. This samples the voice of a hoax radio caller ranting hysterically about the coming of "extradimensional beings" although the voice is barely discernable as its submerged in squalls of static noise.
Further Googling reveals that Faaip de Oiad means 'voice of God' in Enochian, an occult Language invented in the 16th century by John Dee.
Internet searches don't reveal much more about Czyz , however, as he is plainly a young man who doesn't court publicity.
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In his two press photos, one pictures him bent over his guitar with his face hidden wearing a Jim Morrison (American Poet) t-shirt, the other with his back to the camera dressed in black with his hood up.
His album, one of several available free at Bandcamp, is equally mysterious. It was clearly recorded as a continuous piece lasting some 35 minutes so it's not entirely clear why it should be divided up into twelve short pieces numbered Black Water 6 to 17 (parts 1 to 5 are a separate recording - Black Water Part 1).
The effect of this is the break the momentum so is best to download all the tracks for a gapless playback.
Heard in this way, it's a bleak but effective solo work with the notes of his electric guitar accumulating slowly like threatening mass of storm clouds or a gathering of 'extradimensional beings'.
Faaip de Oiad at Bandcamp
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