Albite

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The Polar chill of Gaute Barlindhaug's surroundings seeps into every inch of Aedena Cycle's music, brushing the sculpted electronics with frost-blue tendrils of rime. Like Biosphere's Geir Jenssen, Barlindhaug seeks the warmth smothered under blankets of snow. There is majesty and serenity in Adena Cycle's elegiac glide, the grandeur of cracked sheets of glacial ice stretching for miles and icebergs raising their treacherous heads out of frozen seas. Hints of a sleepy Detroit shade the reverberations of such tracks as "Orange Basalt" and "Dibrachys." But Albite's parameters are defined by geology (albite being an snowy white feldspar) and prehistoric processes of terraforming, not by the rhythmic machinations of urban undercurrents.