A two man project (mainly former Angelrust and Harvist member Aaron Carey) hailing from West Virginia, Nechochewn (Carey's given Lenni-Lenape Indian name) is based on the Adena and Hopewell peoples, a mysterious group of ancient American Indians known for constructing giant burial mounds and effigy earthworks in the Ohio River Valley region more than 2000 years ago. Thusly, the music on Azimuths to the Otherworld is congruent with such themes. It's mostly ambient, acoustic, tribal and folky, but with strains of doomy black metal and post-rock akin to label mates' Blood of the Black Owl's first two albums. It's the kind of album you'd usually expect to hear on Prophecy Productions and it's brilliantly hypnotic and engrossing.