Track Listing 1. Overground 2. Altara 3. Diffusion 4. Seek Nothing 5. You Send Me the Message
| Details | | Playing Time: | 65 min. | | Distributor: | Dutch East India Trading | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Maybe there's some connection between the titling of this disc and the name of both the Anne Francis character and her homeworld in the SF epic FORBIDDEN PLANET. Like the spooky, otherworldly environs of that fictional interstellar body, ALTARA also conjures up images of far-flung places, worlds orbiting in a vacuum, the chasms between oblivion and eternity. A Produce has already built a formidable career working with everything from minimal ambience to fourth-world musics; Griffin has been busy running his superb Hypnos label (from which ALTARA originates) and finding the time to lend his own creative muse to various projects. Together, these two have produced an utterly involving piece of proto-ambient music. "Overground" takes a series of small tones and stretches their tonalities to the verge of infinity. "Diffusion" is an investigation into the subterranean depths of the synthesizer, ripping out broad expanses of dark color, submarine pings, and sounds the equivalent of sudden novas. The epic "You Send Me the Message" rivals even Brian Eno for understated brilliance: tiny tones shift, coalesce, and unfurl like evolving stars, eventually collapsing under their own immense gravitational forces.
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