Laurent Guerrier's Liquid Sphere project returns with this excellent CDR on his own LSI label. Laurent has quite a touch when it comes to producing drone work- and there are some beautiful examples of his skill on this release. The Liquid Sphere sound consists of very hypnotic drones built from deep electric hums and shimmering metallic tones with overlays of crackles, glitches and subtle loops. Though mostly not harsh, the intensity of the sound does reach noise levels at certain points- like the beginning of the disc itself, which startled me a bit- and on "Burning Oil", which interrupts the soothing bleep and feedback serenity of the preceding piece. The CDR is divided into two parts- the first 9 tracks, "Hammer of Wisdom", combine for a total playing time of 43 minutes. Tracks 10 through 12 (titled "Vajramudgara" parts 1-3) take up 23 minutes. My favorite piece is the 10 minute second part of "Vajramudgara"- where a trebly metallic loop becomes overwhelmed first by an almost subliminal bass tone that slowly rises in volume and then a click loop panned from left to right. The volume level of the click loop keeps rising and gaining a bit of distortion. A very intense and lovely piece. Fans of Joe Colley/Crawl Unit, Mirror, Stilluppsteypa as well as lovers of drone who aren't afraid of a little abrasiveness should seek this out.
Order this release direct from LSI here: http://membres.lycos.fr/zuhll
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