There are many ways to get to some kind of ambient sound. Through A Glass Darkly's approach is to get started
somewhere in the middle and follow spontaneous ideas during their live improvisations, which in a certain way
resemble Minimalist music. Luminal, Darrel Mayers' and Nigel Jacobs' début on the Petcord netlabel, utilises
repetition as a means to dive into a hypnotic state of consciousness. Synchronicity, a golden beetle clashes with
the window glass whilst a detached tunnel vision of sound from a distance is building up in front of the listener
and creates an ambiguity of coldness and warmth.
As the music progresses, the apparent linearity of time is cancelled and expands to infinity with echoes of staccato guitars creating a pulsating motorik beat. Reflections of sunbeams in a dark corner where the girl with the flaxen hair used to sit. Figures interact with resonant drones, flageolet overtones, clanking metallic devices or distorted, bowed strings and become increasingly lost in the width of a cavernous warehouse. Through A Glass Darkly provide a soundtrack of subtle changes in motion with Luminal, subliminal pieces that mirror the listener's associations and serve as a vessel for one's own hidden agenda.
Olliver Wichmann
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| 1. | Drilling The Beehive | 2 min 11 sec | 3'764 KByte | mp3, 32-320 kbps VBR |
| 2. | Rothko Chapel | 2 min 34 sec | 4'550 KByte | mp3, 32-320 kbps VBR |
| 3. | Down The Mine | 1 min 58 sec | 3'458 KByte | mp3, 32-320 kbps VBR |
| 4. | Crater #143 | 7 min 05 sec | 12'056 KByte | mp3, 32-320 kbps VBR |
| 5. | Luminal | 5 min 11 sec | 8'234 KByte | mp3, 32-320 kbps VBR |
| 6. | Volans Shelter | 1 min 42 sec | 2'618 KByte | mp3, 32-320 kbps VBR |
| Artwork | Cover art for prints | 1'808 KByte | 24x12 cm & 11.8x14.8 cm at 300 dpi | |
| Everything | Entire release plus artwork | 35.5 MByte | zip archive |
Music © 2010 Through A Glass Darkly and the Petcord netlabel.
Cover art © 2010 Synflict and the Petcord netlabel.