Digitalis Ind. 
Ben Reynolds : Outmospheric Arts of the Outmosphere (UK,2008)***
Some people make noisy music to compensate for the noise (inside and outside) around them, others make rhythmical music to compensate for the disorganised rhythm of their life, to get a grip and groove into the excessive a-rhythmical patterns ; Ben Reynolds here seems to make compensating music for the over-access of interferences (in sound, in wavelength interference, of magnetic fields distortions etc., and who knows also to the too many personal interferences what to do next, loosing the natural cause-and-care in it).
In that way the result is not at all comparable to Krautrock or Cosmic music examples from the 70s, but is more typical “out there” music for the blurry times of today. In the middle core of the sonic explorations are the drones that stretch themselves in time and search their way into space, a sort of muscle tension that is released a bit, without coming yet to the curing massage. The multiple layered sounds interfere a bit with one another, looking for harmonies, but without structure, as a randomly searching sound, whirling around some droning sounds, woobling, wobbling and droning as well, searching for the rhythmical inner sequences, while thoroughly finding some interesting enjoyable patterns in their interferences, a re-foundation in an almost religious goal in the edge of sounds to restore a point of freedom, for more harmony in the interference patterns.
The result is enjoyable, but I also feel sad how far the excess of blurriness in those days had to come. Music of the 70s and from earlier always sounds more clarified in thought. So much has changed ever since. The skies are never as blue. Music influence (also thanks to the business related, statistic-based choices on radio and related bookings) is always a bit more noise.
