Search - Bill Laswell, Tetsu Inoue, Bill & Tetsu Laswell :: Cymatic Scan

Stunning dark ambience

LGwriter | Astoria, N.Y. United States | 11/15/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Here, as in his other dark ambient masterpiece, Somnific Flux, Bill Laswell has a collaborator. But this time it's the Japanese electronica master, Tetsu Inoue. It's a single hour-long track, Monochrome Existence, that takes you down deeper than you would have thought possible, deep into that place where only silence is deeper.Dark ambient is the genre of music you listen to for purely emotional reasons. That's true of most music, but here the emotions are infinitely more subtle--preceding anger, despair, ecstasy. Dark ambient exists to remind you that all of us have levels that can be reached, if we let ourselves reach them. Just sit back, relax, and move with the music, down, down, down--past the bottom of the well...Cymatic Scan will take you where you want to go...and beyond..."

BRILLIANT / VISIONARY & STUNNING...

W. Wilkerson | Earth; waiting for a ride... | 02/07/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Should you favor ambient without wanting to risk nodding off, this is one to add to your collection.Sonically solid and full of the variable textures that make Mr. Laswell the famous musician he is as well as the creative sculptures offered by Tetsu's innovative background.I'm sold."