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Solutiore of Stareau

Solutiore of Stareau

a review by Stephen Fruitman of
release format Solutiore of Stareau by Zammuto (CD Album)

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The premiere release on Ohio record shop Rioux's new label Infraction, overseen by Jason Bryant (who also designed the suggestively-minimalistic cover art) is in fact a re-release. Several years back, Nick Willscher, trading under the name Zammuto, privately released an ambient trilogy, of which this disc is the first installment (the third disc was previously made more widely available on the Apt. B label).

The darkly quiet, enticingly distant landscape spread over fourteen tracks is in sum actually one long, seventy minute suite of some bonafide beauty, not entirely unlike the minimalist sounds recently generated by, say, Jonathan Coleclough.

The only problem this reviewer has with 'Solutiore of Stareau' is the fact that while this nimbly composed and subtle music eggingly draws the listener in, his willingness to enter into this alien landscape is often repulsed by recurring, out of synch metallic glitches (borrowed from Oval?) mixed way up front. This however is a personal prejudice; other listeners will perhaps find these electronic clicks to be rhythms by which to orient themselves. During roughly the last quarter of the piece, it becomes quite Enoesque, 'On Land'-ish, if you will.

In the final analysis, this is a strong, well thought-out piece of warm, subtle drones, fragile radio waves, and enough colour and slowly-evolving variation to keep listeners coming back for further journeys of discovery. It is only hoped that the second part of the trilogy is granted wider availability. Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 18:13, 28 Sep 2001