Description:	CD on Split Femur Records
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Ambient
	Label:	Split Femur
	Price:	£8.19
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5
...according to our Phil on 24 January 2008.

Here's an absolutely delightful CD by Planivaar. I'd somehow escaped their previous 2 releases... no idea what on earth I was doing but it was probably something extremely important. Thats what I do.... important things. Jigsaw is 12 tracks of home recorded electronics and it's a joy to listen to from start to end. The opener (cunningly titled 'The Beginning') is a dark strange percussive cyclical piece of music which is nothing but intense from start to end. In fact the whole album is quite intense... it's a gripping moving thing like the Geoff Capes robotic car arm (JML rrp £9.99). At times it's a lazy hazey affair with crackles and fizzes.... drifty acoustic guitar, drones and tones filling in the spaces quite happily. There's plenty of vocal samples on this album which give it an eerie feel as well... as do the toy town instruments which are chewing both of my ears as I type. A bizarrely compelling experience which is as light as it is dark. I can see folks who dug the Dissolving Orchestra album liking this. Am off to check his back cat out now. Well good. Phil x

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What their label says...

'Mark Lippett aka Planivaar has been a very busy man. Within 12 months  
he has released
two albums and one EP. After the well recieved Green Boat EP released  
in December on Make
Mine Music, Planivaar returns with a brand new full length 'Jigsaw'.

Jigsaw is the second Planivaar release on Split Femur Recordings. It's  
a nice follow up
to The Yellow Square, developing ideas further but still retaining  
that trademark lo-fi
and rather earthy sound. More vocal samples are utilised on the album  
compared to The
Yellow Square, such as the rather spooky re-telling of events of an  
alien abduction on 'I
Have To Go', and the old educational film samples found on 'Coffee and  
Alcohol'. Quieter
moments such as the adorable 'Ice-Cream' and the album closer  
'Ascent', provide the album
with a beautiful sense of fragility that makes Planivaar's music that  
extra special and
endearing.

What's more is that Jigsaw is contained in hand
assembled card gatefold packaging, designed and constructed by the  
Planivaar man himself.
Nice.'