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Compilations - Other albums which feature this performance of the song

Covers - Performances of a song with the same name by different artists

Song Title	Versions	Compilations	Covers
Vapour Of Immense Extent
The Approach Of Rust
Emperor Of Cartography
Between The Firmament And Our
The Evaporation Of Numberless Subjects
In A Warm Room Facing The South
Metallic Kingdom
Moisture Of Metals
The Testimony Of The Sea
Bruising Of The Serpent's Head
Concealing The Great Stone
The Seven Canons

Notes

Review:

By Jeremy Keens of Ampersand etcetra Music Newsletter
(http://ampersandetc.virtualave.net/ampersand.html)

With 'Oneiromancy' we seem to shift into the world of dreams suggested by the title (using dreams for prophecy). Again, there is a beautifully seamless mix, each track extending into the next, and themes seeming to recur. The voice is present, but more distant, less frequent, subsumed into the dreamscape. The 'Vapour of immense extent' and 'The seven canons' form balancing counterpoints for this excursion - they are based around ambient samples with dark tones: water, walking, rumbles and cars in the first; birds, water, shouting in the second. The anchors of the realworld from which the dream suspends.

The body of the album is a hypnotic exploration of dense and complex tones and drones: 'The approach of rust' exemplifying it with ringing dramatic tones underscored by a woobling which gradually settles down; the clatter of a multitude of shopping trolleys, shifting to a gentle crackling running water with cycling tones in 'Emperor of cartography'. Shifting ebbs and flows of 'Between the firmament and our earth' with distant voices that become a crowd, buzz saws that come and go, in a static play with tones that is always moving towards its shuddering echoed end. The tone from that continues into 'The evaporation of numberless subjects' where it becomes more voicelike and plies beside some chattering, strings and pulsing: a knocking noise, horn blows and a vent blows through into 'In a warm room facing south' which rumbles with water, swirling tones and waves.

'Metallic kingdom' layers metal tones into a choir, and adds pulses into a deep sensual slow piece, the watery end opening 'Moisture of metals' (the plane I heard here was actually outside but fitted in perfectly) becoming an organ, more rumbling, higher tones and ringingstrike pushing it forward. The slow ringing is taken up by 'The testimony of the sea' that is joined by a pulsing chant and shimmering tone, with more voices in it. The light tone of 'Bruising of the serpent's head' is overlaid by a big reverberating deep one with little ringings inside, occasional pulses of voice are subsidiary elements, shifting into a woodblock percussion that then underlies 'Concealing the great stone' which also features echoed voices and an orchestral drone that slides into the waters of 'The seven canons'.

A different environment to the 'Solar Cycle 23', depending on a richer tonal base, more stability and a certain lightness. Both are excellent albums with depths, secrets and entertainment aplenty.