
There’s no thinning at the front or diminishing presence in the surface of Pascal Savy ’s Receding , despite the title, and for all the fancy philo-: Savy speaks of 'some psychological and existential questions which I try to convey below the surface of music,' which is all fine and chin-strokingly brow-furrowingly dandy, but is there not perhaps a hint of more to hum in the bathtub than previously? Last there was Liminal (view from here elsew here ), before there [...]

A sextet of tracks these ears would have been much the poorer for not having heard. Mostly from new or imminent releases ( Pascal Savy 's ravishing warm flood of an EP, Liminal [Feedback Loop], David Wenngren & Christopher Bissonnette 's deep journeying, darkly glowing The Meridians of Longitude and Parallels of Latitude [Home Normal] & Illuha 's delicate, faintly off-kilter [...]