SPLINTERS, VOL. I: TREMOR

1. "Tremor" (43:08) Wow! What a wonderfully integrative journey! I felt as if I was among people--like I was sleepwalking--and yet it was also so dreamlike, so interplanetary and inter-dimensional! I could hear/sense Battlestations, but it was also so new, so heavily-treated and shifting so subtly, so masterfully. I absolutely loved the stunning eighth minute: it felt as if I were in an outdoor winter shopping scene with outdoor speakers playing old instrumental strings versions of Christmas carols! The next ten minutes sound like something BRIAN ENO and ROBERT FRIPP could have pulled together during their early explorations of the Ambient Music scene, while the third ten minutes sound so much like the first ten minutes of PAT METHENY & LYLE MAYS' "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls" that I kept waiting for the human voice to step in and surprise me with numeric countings (even though that only happens near the end of Pat and Lyle's song)! After that it sounds like the soundscapes that I've been familiar with from BATTLESTATIONS, though I could also, from time to time, hear Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tangerine Dream, Alio Die, and yet it was all so fresh and exciting! A wonderful, beautiful 43-minute journey (even if the second ten minute passage drag on a bit too long)! (77/85)

A-/five stars; a minor masterpiece of dreamscape travel.

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