| Halo | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Azonic |
| Cover: | Azonic - Halo.jpg |
| Released: | July 1, 1994 |
| Recorded: | Greenpoint Studios |
| Genre: | Drone, experimental rock |
| Length: | 46:03 |
| Label: | Strata |
| Producer: | Bill Laswell |
| Next Title: | Skinner's Black Laboratories |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
Halo is the debut album of guitarist and composer Andy Hawkins, issued under the moniker Azonic. It was released on July 1, 1994 by Strata Records. Marking a departure from his work with Blind Idiot God, the album comprises four lengthy improvised guitar drones accompanied by electronics. Hawkins described the music as a "violent ambiance, harnessing the resonant frequencies of the void to take you out of the here and now."[1]
In writing for Allmusic, critic Brian Olewnick praised Hawkins' passionate and inventive playing style, saying "Hawkins manages to wring some tasty juice from an area, post-Hendrix rock guitar, that most would have considered long since dry." In 2006, The Wire described Halo as "a criminally overlooked post-Metal masterpiece" and called Hawkins "a master of oceanic reverb and sustain, turning riffs from concrete slabs to gentle, body-caressing ripples."[2]
Adapted from the Halo liner notes.[3]