"A heady, slightly fugitive sound that interacts with ambient noise and physical processes to create a very intimate, introspective atmosphere that never stops reshaping itself, making for an impressive release" - Brian Morton, WIRE

"This British/Canadian aggregation intertwines mechanized avant-garde improvisation with loops, horns and other tools of the trade for a recording that presents astonishing realism. Recorded live in U.K., trombonist Herb Bayley subsequently overdubbed his parts to consummate the end result, resulting in this CD.

Martin Archer employs software instruments to create gentle sound swashes amid the hornists’ concise blurts and sound-sculpting maneuvers amid Chris Meloche’s prepared table-top guitar extrapolations. It’s often difficult to discern who is doing what; therefore, it’s a seamless collaboration of future thinking musical minds that offers spacious, multidimensional effects. I listened to this recording several times through a set of high-end Grado headphones and the overall sonic/mood-evoking experience is stupefying. Minimalist themes and phrasings seemingly ping pong from different angles, creating the sensibility of actually feeling the music emanate from within. The waves of sound and contrasting tonalities generate a vibe that is all-encompassing. It all comes at you from divergent angles, where time and distance present an intriguing variable." - Glenn Astarita, EJazz News

"This collaboration....centres around the presence of Chris Meloche's table-top guitar: less a musical sound than a mechanical process, like the whir of distant engines. Pitted agiant this broad featureless terrain, Martin Archer's software manipulations evoke chance encounters with other life forms and robotic intelligences, while Beck's bassoon and Bayley's trombone summon up snuffling, drooling creatures of the imagination. It's a gripping journey, too tense to qualify as an ambient soundtrack, owing more to the textural investigations of pioneers such as Keith Rowe. The overall impression is rather like descending slowly down a monstrous elevator shaft into the bowels of the earth, passing floor after floor of dimly lit, scrabbling activity, infernal workshops and secret slaughterhouses." - Daniel Spicer, Jazzwise

"Cosmic, broody stuff not too far away from AMM or Morphogenesis" - Audion

"A series of performances with great depth and some profound off-the-wall music" - Martin Lilleker, SANDMAN