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The low, exploratory guitar strands of Opening theme (3:40) waft in a mist-like state of resonance. Serge Devadder (with whom VO recorded his other recent -and darker- guitar-fueled work, The Shape of Solitude) provides an electric solo to this track. Pearce's trademark sounds Wander alongside VO's layered drifts, each artist standing out, yet blending together.
Gauzey ephemera slides deeper below the Horizon of thought, lolling on a murky expanse with cello-like swells and higher, sweeping overtones.
Beneath the placidly drifting guitar waves of One question a tremoring chaos grows and churns with increasingly wild abandon, finally smoothing out toward its conclusion. From chilly silence, Frozen breath (7:43) emerges like beautiful, warming rays of dawn spreading across an icy flatland. Subtle accents and tiny bell-like twinkles add intricate textures to this panorama. Hazy notes are coaxed from Pearce's guitar to tell True Stories in the lush mists shapelessly formed by Obmana's hands. The piece winds down to a long hush, which lead to the extended swells of the next vantage point...
In Viewing the distance, radiant soundwaves are alive with primal energy and fluttering embellishments.
Further ebb-and-flow exercises buoy A scattering flock with a warmly enveloping sea of multi-level sound. A spookier mood is found under the shadows of The open darkness, where unidentifiable instruments spew fluid streams into an intriguingly murky vortex.
The sweet notes from a six-string idyll rise to the Bright clouds of free-floating synthstrands, dissipating before the track's conclusion. Grittily drizzling textures etch the otherwise smooth surface of Still unknown; amorphous tones ring and drone like an underwater orchestra. The bright though muted guitar shimmers of Closing theme elastically undulate over the deeper pulse beneath, offering a backward glance to the disc's beginnings.
Both artists are AmbiEntrance favorites; Vidna Obmana interviewed with us in April of 1998, as did Pearce in July 1998, and each regularly contribute their thoughts to the QOM (Question of the Month).
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