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It's hard to find a really good collection of soundscape 'music'. Listening
to someone's recordings of the space they're in is usually far less interesting
than being in those spaces yourself: the reproduction is somehow false,
a cardboard cutout of something 3-D and real.This compilation, however,
dispels that. Presenting a set of lively, imaginary quick journeys: a
fast-moving 'view' of (possibly) the entire London Underground in 5 minutes;
a milky, murky alternate street universe processed beyond belief; and
layered lappings of waves and birds on a lake. Jonty Harrison's clever
'Sorties' is a series of passages through (and, ostensibly, out of) rooms,
where the recording emerges, over and over, still in interior soundspaces,
albeit ones resonating with trucks and other unexpected motifs.Morphogenesis
provide a set of kitchen/ electronics, and Gregg Wagstaff's wonderful
warm recording of a sheep shearing, irregular, sinister clicking of the
shears underlining choruses of bleats of all kinds and the blithe, banal
comments of the workers. This collection challenges electronics and ambient
music for their unspoken escapism, the threads that connect this project
to the real world of sound are fine and strong; even better, it's an engaging
listen that never bores. [RE]
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