Drone Records

NINTH DESERT - Zone

Format: CD-R

Label & Cat.Number: Mystery Sea MS38

Release Year: 2007

Note: lim./numb. 100 hand/laser-printed fullcolour cover

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"Currently installed with minimum comfort in Creuse, in a secluded hamlet, Cyril Herry is dedicating most of his time to various forms of art (writing, graphics, photography, video...) and their intercombination...
Also veteran of the french experimental music scene, he had co-founded SECHRES MOUND (with Cédric peyronnet/TOY BIZARRE) EXOTOENDO, and expressed himself through various solo projects, LECANORA being the most known...
NINTH DESERT is his latest one with works released on TAÂLEM, VERATO & AFE... let's also mention that Cyril creates all the beautiful graphics for the TAÂLEM 3"cd-r series and the KOKESHIDISK sister-label... he also realized a special video which has been used by TROUM on tour...
Ninth Desert's "zone" is an invitation to merge into the layers of sound, extending in a sea of intimate sensations & recycled memories, opening up a myriad of universes, existing like small vortexes of condensed energy...
Cyril Herry fashions sound as clay, exploring interstices, variations of recurrent motifs, echoing a process of permanent elemental mutation...
"zone" attempts to freeze the quintessence of an experienced moment, building a sort of shelter... a place of reflection & ultimate contact...
Listen to these aural sculptures, apprehend their outlines & inner vibrations, and possibly, you'll get far deeper into the understanding of our surrounding world...

"...On 'Zone' he offers seven tracks of string like sounds, which seem to be stuck in an endless sustain. Chilling sounds, like a firm Arctic breeze. It's a bit unclear what he does to create this music, wether this is indeed long strings, processed feedback or analogue/digital synth and a lot of effects, but the latter seem to me clear. The previous release saw Ninth Desert in the field of Troum and Lustmord, but here's it more likely to be Alvin Lucier on a musical night. A pity that the seven pieces do sound kind a similar in approach and structure throughout, which makes it just a bit too similar throughout. But as a whole it makes a sturdy addition to the Mystery Sea catalogue of daring, experimental ambient music." [FdW / Vital Weekly]

"..The latest comes from Ninth Desert, whose sound is anything but arid and dry, desolate and warm. Instead, the sounds on Zone are cold, cool, chilly, wintery, lots of glistening high end, the sounds you might imagine would emanate from vast ice fields, or deep snowy caves, not so much rumble and buzz as sparkle and glimmer and glisten. Even at it's most low-end dronelike, the whirs are wrapped in streaks of keening high end, everything is bright and blown out. It's like the sonic version of laying in a huge snow bank, staring at the sun, everything is white and bright, too much for your eyes to handle so everything sort of glazes into strange indistinct shapes, glowing and shifting, like clouds in the sky, or huge slow moving chunks of ice in the sea. These sounds are arctic, almost alien, like wandering on the surface of some strange planet, everything icy and barren, cold winds whir and whine, the sound of the slow moving glaciers a muted creaking, all smeared into dreamy swaths of high end shimmer. So lovely. And so refreshing to experience a soothing, slow moving drone record, that doesn't rely entirely on low end rumble, but at the same time manages to make upper register sounds as soothing and soft focus as their lower ended brethren.
Like all Mystery Sea releases, strictly LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, each disc numbered on the tray card, and gorgeously packaged with
striking full color artwork." [Aquarius Records]

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