BRADLEY, PAUL — Searching for the way

"Titles might be deceiving, so I am merely guessing with 'Searching For The Way' by Paul Bradley, but might he be searching for the way to different kinds of music, or perhaps a renewal of the drone idiom? If we listen to the track of the same name, we might very well think so. The work is a louder, more present than much of his previous work, and it seems to me, more based on digital synthesizers, unlike his previous work which was more based on highly processed field recordings. Quite a cosmic piece, this 'Searching For The Way', in some ways a break with his own past, but in some other ways, the long duration of ambient music, it perfectly stands in the tradition of German cosmic music (less arpeggios of course) and makes a highly atmospheric track of a more present and pressing nature. Quite nice." [FdW, Vital Weekly]