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from Exposé Magazine
written by Phil Derby
Seofon - Zero Point
(The Foundry fou.11, CD, 2001)
Seofon is a man shrouded in mystery. The Foundry's website says only that he's a Bay area recent college graduate, and little else. Whoever he is, he has friends in high places, because this CD is a veritable who's who of ambient music, including Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Vidna Obmana, Stephen Kent and others. It is a truly synergistic work, using Vidna Obmana's recycling technique, which is taking source material from each musician and completely reworking it so that it bears little resemblance to the original recording. Each piece primarily features one or two of the musicians. From highly rhythmic pieces to shimmering echoes of formless sound, the disc ebbs and flows perfectly from one track to the next. It truly stands as a singular, gorgeous work. Though each track is discernible from the others, the way they seamlessly go together is admirable. There is a very natural progression to it. I've raved and yet said little if anything about any individual track, but that's because I find all of it fantastic and breathtaking. Indispensable listening. Check out the website for bonus mp3 tracks and downloadable credits with more detail than that already included in the attractive CD booklet.
2001 (c) Phil Derby / Exposé Magazine