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On this extended long form release Kevin Drumm comes face to face with minimal drone music and confronts the genre by providing one of its absolute pinnacles at the forefront; movement. Drone music at its most concentrated and ably performed has build and depth in its tones. Although there might be the illusion of stasis the opposite is true. From the opening twenty minute track Guillain-Barre the mood of the album is laid clear. The arrangements are shadowy layers of soundtrack like tones not entirely unlike the work that Popul Vuh provided for Herzog s films. By track two more Blood and Guts with its ominous bell tones its apparent that there is a true nothing that s associated with these sounds other than the mood inducing hypnosis and the feeling of drowning yet having no ability to fight the slow pull.