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The distinctive sound of ex-Zoviet*France member Robin Storey, who locks himself inside his trancey Indian loops to create Indian Industrial music. Plus a couple of tracks of real playing (not a loop) on a kind of Indian banjo. More ebullient than his Vernal Crossing CD, the title track, in particular, is a stomping powerhouse of unhealthiness. I'm sure the technology is up to date, but the effect of these dark loops and distant melodies is like some hypnotic 19th century piece of milling machinery, dripping oil and blowing steam. Very fine.

review by Clive Bell
this text originally appeared in The Wire magazine (issue # 133)
reproduced by permission
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9 tracks and over 70 mins of real ambient world music. The first 3 tracks each take on a different drum/perc rhythm nucleus and build layers of synths and electronics on top, ranging from sprawling and spacious to chugging and choppy, but with a definite Middle East flavour plus echoes of 'One Of These Days' style Floyd and TransGlobal Underground, among others. Track 4 is a mighty whirring piece of musical machinery like the inside of some giant alien factory with an expansive, all-enveloping sound, totally hypnotic with plenty going on to keep the attention as synths, electronics and samples create a most mesmerising effect. Track 6 returns to rhythmic only this time the tabla-led rhythm combines with a vast expanse of choral voices to join the slowly building electronics, synths and samples which rise and take over, track 7 follows a similar path while track 8 opens with Eastern stringed instrument plucking away over a backdrop of spacey electronics that gradually roars into life as the strings accelerate and the intensity increases. Track 9 returns to the tabla rhythm nucleus and here a gorgeous synth chorus spreads over the foreground to breathtaking effect as further sonic layers emerge from the mix.

review by Andrew Garibaldi
CD Services, Dundee