Centrozoon Blast

Dark drones shifting around in three dimensional space (great on headphones) give 'Empire' a rather swirling beginning. The music has a chilling quality and some of the sounds created have a slight vocal aspect to them, like a moaning exhale of breath. At the ten minute mark we get the first hint of rhythm. This fascinating loop becomes slowly louder and thus more prominent eventually dominating the track until just a couple of minutes from its close. 'Sign' begins like a collage of sounds being tried together in different combinations, coming and going. A short repeated melody is put very low in the mix, just on the edge of hearing. At one moment it appears to be getting closer but then disappears again. Its a bit like an object that can be seen clearly then the fog closes in and all that can be made out is a faint outline.

By the half way mark more drones are introduced and the melody is almost drowned out entirely just to fight back again but still never quite becoming prominent. I thought 'Sense' came over as a much warmer track, images of heat shimmers abound. A sequence starts up giving what had previously been a drifting number some sort of structure. The sequence mutates and what sounds (if you listen very carefully) like some faint distorted speech is used as texture over the top. The track sort of bubbles along nicely just doing its own thing before coming to an abrupt halt. 'Blast' starts off as another highly atmospheric floater. At four and a half minutes there was what sounded like a sequence starting to develop but it disappeared. A minute later the same thing happened again but using different sounds. At the half way mark the dronal intensity subsides somewhat but if anything this just has the effect of making the track more atmospheric and moody.