M. Griffin / D. Fulton: The Most Distant Point Known

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(Hypnos - 2000)

Eager to travel to dark and spacey realms which few human ears will be fortunate enough to visit? Make your seating arrangements now for an aural starflight to The Most Distant Point Known....

Hypnos CEO M. Griffin collaborates with D. Fulton (of Dweller at the Threshold)

A densely churning mass of sonic darkness envelopes the slow-moving tectonic expanse which opens the disc; a massive grumbledronehiss spreads and eventually is caressed by more-tonal breezes whish rise above the thundering murk. Mulitple soundstreams levitate and intertwine in a glimmering state of lithospheric flux. Smooth sheets mingle with more-active sequencer patterns.

Big, echoey pulsations form a rhythmic pattern which moves through source of all gravity as if swimming through syrup. Organ-like chords stream alongside, faint then growing stronger, embellished with wispy tendrils of almost-metallic fibers. Like some starflung symphony, opposite horizon simply radiates on several lush layers which slip so-slowly amongst each other.

The disc's final half-hour encompasses the four-parts of quadrature; practically invisible musicality enamates from the shimmering veils of phase 1 (9:39)... chiming iridescence flows in subtle contractions of time and space. phase 2 coasts into more sci-fi-like territories with thrumming machine hum and mechanical hisses decorating its windswept passages. Light electronic tones bop along robotically to propel the piece. A brief closing piece, curved beyond zero (3:24), gleams in a final swaying wash of electric hues.

Merging their visions into one vast (though condensed into 66-minutes) exploration, M. Griffin / D. Fulton travel to The Most Distant Point Known... and of course the fun is in getting there, "watching" the starry nebulae, shining constellations and patches of luminous gas float past the portholes in your mind. 8.9 for a tranquilly immersive speed-of-sound trip into the distance. 8-9.gif
This review posted November 29, 2000

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