Raglani - Of Sirens Born

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4...according to our Brian on Fri 05 Sep, 2008.

More tender fuzzy tones and ambient fields of aural bliss for you now courtesy of Raglani on Kranky, a label that eats, sleeps & breathes drone. 'Of Sirens Born' is another soporific bliss out, engaging with higher states, proper meditative & magical like a kaleidoscopic dream. Once again, this stamps all over the new Growing effort, the sheets of shifting frequencies tickling you cerebrally and playfully whilst other static waves wash over you and gentle chimy things mischievously twinkle occasionally and spacey effects zing off into hyperdrive. Yes, this is making me wanna fly a magic carpet, no mistake. Excellent!

Previously only available as a limited CDR, 100 copies only made.

* Situated in the soundworld of contemporary kosmiche electronica, Of Sirens Born goes several steps further than many retro-focused efforts, rendering audibly literal the traditional metaphor of voyage that has underscored so many synth-driven concept albums.

* Beginning tentatively and uneasily, these five pieces progress through expansive phases of grandeur and menace, shipwrecking before washing ashore on a new world.

* Although indebted to the dark romanticism of krautrock is clear, this is not an electronic trip through well-worn evocations of cosmic space. It is rather a story about the submerged memory of mythic voyages, of a time when every

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