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A sublime blend of sounds and tones, sonic continuum (7:16) by Rod Modell and Michael Mantra opens the comp. Oozingly slow synth strands are dappled with snatches of bird cries, wind, waves and voice fragments for a most transcendental ear-journey. (For an even deeper immersion in to the same elements, check out the full-length release from Hypnos). Silent Records main man, Kim Cascone pitches in
Heavenly Music Corporation's 1994 track, Flowers & Beads, wherein drumbeats and cymbals propel dreamy drifts and synth burbles into a smoothly musical ambi-delic flow. Ma Ja Le's Drifting Child is simply lovely stuff - dark and moody, yet sensual, like an intricately woven tapestry unfurling in weightlessness, at least that's how it makes me feel.
Waveform Transmission has contributed the very Spacey Sonology, which envelopes the listener within sweltering waves of radiant pulses and fragmented vocal signals. Mark Gage (of Vaporspace) has created Past [Passed]; noisy ripples give way to quieter, echoey bells, shimmers and and an electronic child's voice, all seeming to be sounds from some interstellar nursery room.
Light beats and a big, bouncy bassline power the intermittent synth which flows through The Emptiness That Contains Everything, by
Michael Halcyon and T. Lemmo. This is the track that was lost in the Gatwick Airport for a few years.
In Vidna Obmana's Claw and Drift, the "drift" is quite apparent via his silky layers of airborne tones; the "claw" part may refer to the barely perceptible accents which chitter and click teasingly, along with some distant birds and water in the mix too. (VO fans, please note the Landscape in Obsurity review also posted this month.)
Richard Bone presents a softly billowing dreamtime number, entitled Murmurio (3:55), in which lulling synth waves are decorated with bell tones and just a bit of texture. A darker night awaits at Half Way to Three by Hypnos head Michael Griffin; deep space buzzes merge with rolling, celestial soundwaves, in a piece which could be construed as soothing or menacing, and possibly both.
From 1994, Trancendental Anarchists' Phase Space wraps piano strings around the night sky. Echoing notes and tinkling ivory riffs meld with spacier effects like electronic teleporter noises; like the ambiance in a piano bar aboard the Enterprise. Another Silent-type,
Pelican Daughters offer their brand of trance as The Last Resort. Ringing high notes cascade over a lower humming backdrop, designed not to make you think. Cerulean Transmission is a collaboration between musical meditators Michael Mantra and Charlz de la Casa, blending found sounds of birds, surf and laughing kids with a high-pitched electronic tone.
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