Gavin Miller, one half of post-rock techno genre-straddlers worriedaboutsatan and also Ghosting Season, has decided he needs more creative outlets for his diverse output. He's even gone and set up his own record label, too. But for all the quantity, there's no drop in quality if his first solo outing is in any way representative.
'Fotograf 1' begins with low, sonorous drones, which are in turn augmented with lower, broader, more sonorous drones akin to a ship's horn. Stippling and incidentals shudder through the barelling depths to forge a range of tones and textures and alter the underlying sonic architecture as the piece evolves, a sparse guitar reminiscent of latter-day Earth weaves its way through an immense force before it all falls away to a lone piano.... 'Fotograf 2' continues where 'Fotograf 1' ends, and so the two pieces effectively function as a single sixteen-minute movement that gradually changes and mutates. At times calm and soothing, at others dense and oppressive, the transitions are engineered seemlessly. The result is powerful: too focussed to be dismissed as simply 'experimental' and far too commanding to be considered mere ambient.
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