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Ezekiel Honig, Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band

Ezekiel Honig, Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band [ Anticipate Recordings ] ( buy CD ) ( buy mp3s ) New Yorker Ezekel Honig's ambient music does what the genre promises but often fails to deliver: through careful arrangement of and attention to sonorous material, it creates an environment that's quietly seductive and almost supine. Its attention to texture is finely detailed, but it's not showy about its exacting nature. Rather, on Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band , Honig proceeds as though he's tip-toeing through rooms, across floorboards, carefully collecting and placing sonic objects and arranging them into [...]