The Tzolk’in project, named after the most fundamental Maya calendar, is a musical endeavour of the masterminds Nicolas from Empusae and This Morn’ Omina together with Gwenn from Flint Glass. Two well known names in the realms of dark ambient and ritual tribal electronic music. Four years ago they surprised with an excellent debut. It will therefore not be a surprise that the music on this album has a pleasurable quality. The best of both the projects come together here in an amalgam of sounds that is characterized by dark melancholic yet epic sounding soundscapes, with added ambient spheres and rhythms that ensure an exotic, either meditative or haunting tribal atmosphere. Ceremonial deep tones take you back in time to the world of the Maya’s, while these tones are merging with the power of industrial music, kept together by the ritual rhythms that enhance the atmosphere of a thriving culture such as the Maya people once had. Haab’ is a truly ingenious album that with modern means very imaginatively and effectively manages to translate an ancient mystical atmosphere to the listener of today. Sublime!