review
Exclaim magazine
With hands across the ocean, free folk CD-R label guru Brad Rose (The North Sea)
reaches out from Tulsa, OK to London-based trio Rameses III for the formation of
this transatlantic ambient quartet. The album is essentially two longish pieces,
each ith a particular flow. "Death Of The Ankou" has a spiral stillness that hovers
at slowly shifting altitudes, carried on bowed strings and bamboo woodwinds. The
motion of more a product of iridescence and timbra nuance than progress along a
measure. Like watching a ship in a bay through a late afternoon heat haze,
distances are difficult to judge. "Night Blossoms Written In Sanskrit" is more
directed in its drift, with a shimmer of acoustic guitar carrying the first half
of the piece, then the massed tones gain their own momentum, eventually evolving
into a large chorus of voices, human and musical together. A slight Eastern tint
colours both pieces but never dominates the sound. The album is rounded out with a
remix done by Type label boss Xela. This is a approached in a
Coles Notes manner,
with the individual elements given plainer exposure then reintegrated and bound with
minimal third party evidence. A well mixed nightcap
Eric Hill
2006/08/00