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The most most straightforward "music" comes right away... Pulling On A Line (2:40) reveals a short strand of tribally pattering drumbeats, determinedly pounding over a growing synth cloud which rises to the top, obsuring all and overflowing into Kelvin Balance. Rippling with light energy, that hovering haze thrums onward, only giving hints as to what its source is.
During the 11-minute White Cloud Ratio, soft, resonant tones simply flutter and shift in formless, multilayered wisps.
From under a thin, drifting sheet of string sounds, a primitive, rhythm clangs, softly machinelike; Weren't Long until everything builds into an amorphous, slowly evolving, revolving vortex of translucent sound. Watery and windy impressions faintly flow In A Mumbling Sky, along with seemingly random metallic clatter and "mumbling" warbles. Faraway musicality traces unseen contours in this expansive blend of isolation and beauty.
The roundabout vastness of Spiral (30:19) is confined by impenetrable murk, forcing the listener to traverse at a slower pace. A continually surging soundstream caresses, but obscures audio cues, only sometimes allowing ghostly tonal remnants to seep through. Eventually warm, pulsating chords emerge as do spacey little blips and lush (though distant) reverberations. The mild (though enduring) squall dominates again, as only bassy notes, cyclic chirps and a few assorted glimmers penetrate this truly immersive atmosphere.
The shifty tones of Edge Band slip between each other, as other musical vestiges surface and submerge in a diffused percolation. Very nice!
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