Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri

For the audience, what the two ambient and electronic specialists Abdul Mogard and Rafael Anton Irisarri have developed here is nothing less than a re-positioning in space and time. Listening to this deeply effective, decelerated music, you move weightlessly in a fluid intermediate space that unobtrusively offers you new ways of perceiving yourself. The two musicians have chosen the apt title "Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close" for the album on which it is based. Anyone experiencing this music can no longer really speak of listening, but of immersing themselves. Mogard's synthesizer modulations merge with Irisarri's sculptural guitar drones, which are remotely reminiscent of Kevin Shields' soundtrack for "Lost in Translation". What gradually emerges live here is an epic, veiled, large-scale, meandering, darkened beauty that, despite all the ambient clichés, is suitable neither for airports nor elevators, but demands contemplation and rewards it immediately.