CRISTAL — Homegoing

"J. Anthony, G. Darden and R. Donne (Labradford, Spokane, ex-Aix Em Klemm) journey through simmering electronic, wide-screen vistas to seismic, swelling and undulating soundscapes. From the shifting-sand textures of �Yoke� (replete with deeply moving, melancholic cello sifting through the ether) and �Streaming Wisdom,� to the ever-so-slightly somber tones of �Dead Bird,� Homegoing is a wondrously thought-provoking, uplifting aural adventure�a technicolor travelogue of things possibly lost, possibly not. File alongside latter-day Biosphere, Deathprod (especially both Helge Sten and Cristal�s attention to the minutest sonic detail), and the later, electronically based Zoviet France releases. Pour a glass of your finest tipple, sit back and be transported to a very special dimension. Cristal�s Homegoing has it all, and more." [label info]


�Ultra-deep ambience, a sound both subterranean and subaquatic, metallic shimmering high-end washes over everything like some sort of alien sheen, fields of glistening, cricket-like chitter adds texture to otherwise slow, shifting, smooth expanses of warm soft swirl, dreamy and ethereal." [Aquarius Records]