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third of the six Islands discs, Seofon's Immanent
features three new pieces. These tracks continue
the narrative begun in Seofon's debut Causal Collapse,
describing the imminent movement from illusion to
emptiness to timeloose mind. Drawing upon the writings
and concepts of esoteric science-fiction author
A. A. Attanasio, Immanent suggests impossible geometries
and other realms of consciousness with unraveling
rhythms and hallucinogenic atmospheres, vibrationally
traversing these images: [Skyle
9.16] "It had experienced him wholly, shining
with the full possibilities of life, and eaten
the strange, rectifying the dimensionally charged
gap between the optimal and the actual. Crags
of tree-crowded rock floated in space, glinting
with waterfalls and rainbows, the purple sky around
them swarming with their shadows and  delirious
cloudshapes. Hard to believe that when the infinity
virus first arrived here there was nothing but
infalling cosmic dust and light."
[Freemantic
3.35] "Where his flesh was, or should have
been a palpable blackness throbbed. Gazing into
the core-darkness of his body, glimmers of understanding
flitted acorss his brain: He was bigger than he
knew, and getting stronger, drawing strength from
the sky, from the very core of the universe. The
Voice was not a delusion. It was real and he,
the listener, was the dream."
[Eth
6.54] "Only then did he comprehend. The fear
that had surged out of him a moment ago had reshaped
the future. This nameless man with the haunted,
in-looking eyes was the physical shape of his
fear--his shadowself. This man, somewhere in time,
was him, his secret self, as unaware of his psynergy
as he was conscious of his immanence.
Seofon
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Churning
rhythms and fluttering wisps of sound are imbued
with upwardly rising currents in Skyle accompanied
by bass impulses. The track segues into Freemantic,
a billowing geyser of beatless sound seemingly
as vast, dense and powerful as a cyclone. (David
J. Opdyke for Ambientrance)
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The
machine-spectre of [Csero's] 'Pikolifter' is overwhelmed
by Seofon who molds the three pieces of 'Immanent'
into a structured whole. 'Skyle' is propelled
by a beat with echoes of AmerIndian music, that
carries through the track supporting guitar and
synth waves. Over this some chantlike keyboards
and rising tones create a driving space-tribal
movement. It fades and shifts into the short 'Freemantic'
which is an abstract piece of growling synths
and metallic vents with some synths swirling in
the mist, before the beat redevelops, growing
out of the synths and into 'Eth' which is an exciting
drum-and-bass like workout of layered rhythm loops
with a melody sliding underneath. The three parts
of the disk fit together well, rounding each other
off and creating a nice balance. (Jeremy Keens
for Ampersand Etcetera)
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- Immanent
The
Seofon disc also has some really nice chugging
rhythms, particularly on "Skyle," a
surprisingly straightforward toe-tapper with some
cool atmospheric layers. (Phil Derby for Sequences
Magazine)
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Seofon
- Immanent
Number
three is by Seofon, a member of the Ambient Temple
Of Imagination, of which we recognize the sounds
very well. Track one and three are fierce up tempo
rhythm pieces with ambient synth washes underneath.
The shorter second track in the middle is a breathing
exercise for seagulls and is hauntingely ambient
piece. (Frans de Waard for Vital)
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