Tzesne, Cliffs Under the Mist (CDR Mystery Sea)

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Tzesne is a sound artist from the Basque region of Spain fascinated by its countyside. "The Path" leads us into this world of his, a slowly-evolving one which would appear heralded by this track with the absurdly stretched-out pealing of a giant bell - clapper meeting metal, the long gong, excruciatingly pleasurable reverberation and ultimate disintegration of the sound just short of the twenty-minute mark. Beautifully rendered - even though it probably has nothing to do with bells and my fantasticized reading of what I´ve heard.

The next drone discreetly whirls itself into an off-kilter rotation, quite disorienting on close listening. The hum growing louder as it gives the impression of spiralling downward, inducing that sickly, vertiginous feeling you have when dreaming of falling - wake up before hitting rock bottom! Fortunately, Tzesne fades out before coming near to the ground.

Finally, "By the dry sea...by the falling leaves" is decidedly more airborne; as this particular drone blows past our ears the faintist melody of two or three notes can be discerned in the mix - or maybe it is just implied, or extrapolated, or (again) imagined. Either way, Tzesne has created sonic magic. Here at last I at least "feel" the presence of the cliffs mentioned in the title, sheer faces dropping drastically into the sea, whipped into foam by the jagged rocks below. "By the dry sea..." skirts and plays with this sheer cliffside, getting caught on its outcrops and bending into its indentations. Terrifying, churning seas below but nothing but endless blues skies above.

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