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Sweet Ambiguous Inbetween does a better job of previewing the disc's sonic convergences; strange glassy warbles, lounge piano and vocal mumble/crooning meet with muffledly clanging beats and strange filtration. There's nothing homogenous about
Heterogeneous Rationality with its interestinlgy irrational mishmash of weird electronics, sporadically flailing little beats, twinkling xylophones and crazy radiowave ripples. Other samples are tossed into the fray, like organ blasts, prog guitar licks and spastic computernoise eruptions.
Stop-and-start jazztronics intermittently blurt out from Memory of Sound and tinkling piano tones are entwined with a growing miasma of off-key violin slices, electric radiance and xylotones in the beat-free zone of Dawn Melancholique. Towering prog-rock explorations surge through
Universe Within, with free-form drum patterns and elastic guitar strands leading the way.
A veritable plethora of everyday found sounds inhabit the crazy quilt patchwork of Dogra Magra (6:23) laced with spoken samples (including a lot of counting), squawking guitar, scattered drumwork, screaming noise, soft piano and an ear-bending host of other various audiodistortions. In Ambivalent Black Note, cheesy keys are propped by steadily battered drumskins and jazzily wandering bass, all of which fade into a captivating drift.
Phantasmally flanging guitar swirls through Eureka Nuit, while more "normal" acoustic strumming is heard in the retro-jazz sounds of the carefree A Whim, along with bass, breezy beats, murmered words and some electric noodling.
I've already used the adjectives cheesy and breezy, but I need to pull them out again for Eccentric Morning, a fun little ditty topped with feminine spoken words.
Oriental female voice is heard in the lyrics of sweet Heaven, where accompanying electronics and horns receive a (sometimes grungily pounding) rhythm treatment. Dreamy interludes occur with Fantasy and Piano sans beats or overt quirks. Buzzing with slow beats
Plants reverberates electronically amid soft synth waves before the
Epilogue (1:31) closes the show with sustained piano notes, rippling guitar shards and the sounds of surf, flipping pages and random thumping around.
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