Track Listing 1. Eraser, The 2. Topology of a Phantom City 3. Velvet Horizon, The 4. Eating the First Map 5. Sacred Agents 6. Doubts About Waking 7. Mutant Beautific, The 8. Soul Reports, A
| Details | | Distributor: | Dutch East India Trading | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Paul Schutze is a man who pirouettes effortlessly between the industrial puzzle box of his Laughing Hands days, through the ruminative phases on his first Multimood release, and now into the techno-tribal territories explored on NEW MAPS OF HELL. The epitome of Schutze's talents erupts magnificently from the 16-minute "Topology of a Phantom City," with its almost Hassell-like mutant trombone and unearthly electronic screams set a-tumble into swirling eddies of percussion. Indeed, this mini-epic almost portends the dissolution of the universe, with a most unsettling, multi-dimensional feel. Where Mo Boma strokes, massages, and coaxes furry, silken washes of sounds, Schutze prefers to dabble with attack and decay, passion and fury, piercing cries and salient echoes. "The Velvet Horizon" is Teutonic synth music stood on its head, cloaked in cascading, tenderly rubbed drumbeats, Isham-like trombone stabs, and dusky electronics. A stunning work of no small importance.
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