THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW WORK FOR AQUASERGE

1. "Un grand sommeil noir" (4:28) Pleasant but not brilliant. (8.75/10)

2. "1768°C" (À Edgar Varèse) (7:04) a little too dissonant for my tastes. (13/15)

3. "Hommage à Giacinto Scelsi" (6:29) obviously a study of the harmonics of dissonance. (8.25/10)

4. "Only" (1:16) a little discord and dissonance balanced by some very pleasant melodies, chords, and sounds. Male leader singer. (4.5/5)

5. "Comme des carrés de Feldman" (5:11) These crazy humans! Stretching the boundaries of what is music. Creative but, to what end? To make me smile? or run away? (7.75/10)

6. "Only" (version 2) (1:36) Female lead singer with choral version in second half. (4.5/5)

7. "Nuit terrestre" (À Gyorgy Ligeti) (10:02) long sustained single notes held by each instrument for over one minute before a change is made or new note added. Interesting. With each new note added or changed there is a definitive change in mood and memory/sensory trigger. VERY interesting! By the fifth minute we have painted quite a scene-- kind of like watching scenery fly by from a window.of a TGV train. At 6:27 we get the first low end, percussive notes. But then we return to the long wind instrument notes--though this time moving and shifting their chordal structures much more quickly (though NOT fast). Difficult to rate. Is this prog? (17/20)

8. "Nuit altérée" (À Gyorgy Ligeti) (2:38) with lazy jazz drums, the aurora borealis chordal curtain of sustained and shifting notes receives a more humane foundation/anchoring. Also, the addition of tubular bells and organ adds something. (4.5/5)

Total Time 38:44

A little too post-modern/avant garde classical for my tastes. It's more of interest as to how my bodymind reacts/responds to the music, rather than a question of enjoyment. The bigger question for me coming from listening to this album is: "If Aquaserge has been admitted into the coverage of "progressive rock music" then why shouldn't Five-Storey Ensemble also be included?"

B-/3.5 stars; interesting by not necessarily something I'd want to return to very often--and certainly not as a whole. I definitely prefer their previous albums.