Released: 2006
Style: Experimental, Ambient
"This is a rather beautifully packaged re-issue of Espen Sommer Eide's debut album, originally released in a limited run on Biosphere's 'Biophon' imprint in 1998. I must say although I am familiar with most of the Norwegian artist's output I have never come across this album before, and it is a pleasure to explore the murky depths now, 8 years after it originally landed. Unsurprisingly many tracks here bear relation to the early work of Alog (which recently featured on the killer 'Hold That Totem' collection), but they also manage to retain a life and soul of their own. Deep disorientating basslines punctuating filtered off-world instrumentation to create some kind of ambience, just not the kind of ambience we're accustomed to. I can see why Biosphere issued the record, while not obviously comparable to Biosphere's own output, this music could reside in the same overall ballpark, the same glacial beauty is trapped within Sommer Eide's work as within the work of Geir Jenssen. I think the most successful elements of the album come when Sommer Eide stops relying on electronic pulses and drones and brings in the distant sound of a guitar or another acoustic instrument - the merging of these two worlds becomes utterly involving and occasionally deeply moving. Another fantastic release on the Rune Grammofon imprint, I do wonder occasionally when these guys are going to slip up?? Highly recommended." - Boomkat
Tracklisting:
1 I.F.A. (4:20)
2 Ring (8:54)
3 Zurnas (6:08)
4 No Strangeclock (5:35)
5 Duration-Happiness (4:43)
6 Kaliphoni (3:54)
7 C (4:49)
8 Order Of Disappearance (5:08)
9 Sol (5:45)
10 Minne & Materie (5:36)
11 The Boy In His Bathtub (6:15)
12 Farger Rundt Hvitt (4:18)
13 Kreta (9:36)
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