Wilt: amidst a spacious fabric Wilt: amidst a spacious fabric (Ad Noiseam - 2001) So... when's the last time you sat back and listened to the sounds of a zither being monstrously distorted ? Well, here's your chance to do just that... From his zithery sources, Wilt (a.k.a. James Keeler) stretches, twists and otherwise transmogrifies those sounds into unrecognizable strains which exist amidst a spacious fabric of deformative treatments. As I listen on Hallowe'en night, the dark pulsations which emit from 1 seem particularly fitting; big lolling soundwaves are sometimes underscored by clattery textures. From 3's gently churning chaos erupts wilder fluctuations of crazily whipsnaking metallic fluids... the discomfortable kind. Oozing ripples pour from the sludgy core of 4 (10:16) to be tainted by distantly caustic machine-shop atmospheres (as is the neighbors had tin cans in their clothes dryer). The moody morass which ensues could be the theme for crossing an irradiated alien swampland (or wherever your imagination takes you, as long is it's foreboding and mysterious). 5 continues rumbling across an unknowable expanse of rough drones. More-raucous (though quite blurred) 6 clammers with constant feedback-like turmoil and oblique clanging in its steely mists. Short-and-clunky, 9 (0:42) features a puzzling rhythm in a series of echoey thuds. Enigmatic finale' 11 thrums with mechanoid patterns and shifting clouds of static Whether the audiosurreality of Wilt will inspire awe, dread or annoyance will depend on your preferences... how ambiguously bleak can you go? amidst a spacious fabric goes deep, deep into experimental dark ambience and noise, never displaying its zither-born status. A spacious though confining realm of 8.4 mystery. No surprise this originates from the Ad Noiseam label... This review posted November 4, 2001 AmbiEntrance © 2001-1997 by David J Opdyke (except CD cover art, rights retained by original owners).