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from Sonic Curiosity
written by Matt Howarth
http://www.empire-of-the-claw.com/soniccuriosity/sc040.htm
Matt Howarth links:
Bugtown Mall - Sonic Curiosity
Seofon Zero Point
(CD on the Foundry)
On this 70 minute CD from 2001, Seofon (aka the Ambient Temple of Imagination) is joined by Vidna Obmana, Steve Roach, Stephan Kent, Robert Rich, Not Breathing, and Thermal. These "collaborations" consist of taking material from ATOI's "Planetary House Nation" CD and recycling those themes and sonic motifs, filtering them through the collaborators own styles and musical sensibilities.
The results of these displaced intersections are thoroughly ambient and distinctly engaging, molded in the styles of each collaborator. A significant difference between the normal moods of these collaborators and the tracks featured on this CD involve the spaciness of these musical remixes. Normally, these collaborators are known for the earthiness of their ambient compositions, while here their music is infused with cosmic airs, subjecting geological atmospherics to the rigid effects of vacuum and interstellar radiation.
Overall, languid electronics predominate, peppered with distant tribal rhythms and drifting clouds of tonal hiss. There are also hints of machinery laboring to maintain endless function utilized as a mechanical rhythm track behind certain soundscapes.