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U.S. label Nepenthe is in my pantheon of favorite manufactures and holds a special place with me. Its releases are a pariah doomed to commercial failure, but whose release are examples of the highest quality in the present experimental and deep music generes. Usually Nepenthe released albums and projects of the American musician named Dwight Ashley, who we wrote about earlier, so that all who are interested can search reviews in last year's archives site. The new record from Nepenthe is a product of musical creativity Trinity: Dwight Ashley, Hans Joachim Roedelius and Tim Story. Each of these musicians that have long held musical personalities of style - these musicians are have been working in the back ground in the music scene for the years. The same Tim Story, for example,. was a Grammy nominee. And now this trio decided to create something unusual, even for you the reader. The three of them recorded one album, that is, each track was not the work of one, but three in a cooperative spirit. Teamwork - something familiar to, for example, construction workers who as a team build building together. This disc is a most interesting collaboration, as we all can benefit from it. I proclaim this a great success!

The creators of this broadly diverse recording have affected the tracks with their best hand - all the songs varied, versatile and with different atmosphere and mood is on the album some of which is beautiful ambient stuff. Some of the tracks remind me of the militant spirit of very early Kraftwerk, yet with their own style and flavor.

A beautiful recording. Real Art! The creators of this recording deserve the right of being the name of Masters! 9 / 10
– http://www.stigmata.name/rew_2009.php#ars

Attempting to chart the history of the Dwight Ashley/Hans-Joachim Roedelius/Tim Story triad would easily fill a chapter in any encyclopedia electronica, so it’s sufficient to say that between the three of them they make one helluva brave noise. Ashley and Story already have a number of excellent collaborations between them, including the minor classic A Desperate Serenity on the defunct Multimood label (well worth seeking out); Story and Roedelius have recorded together as Lunz, with two worthwhile discs to their credit. Now the three are an item, their debut Errata credited to the puzzlingly nicked A.R.S. If you discard whatever ridicule (or irony) might be gleaned from that abbreviation, you’d discover the well-wrought potential met and delivered on the trio’s first long-player. Who does what is difficult to discern, which often makes for the best combinations: both Story and Roedelius no doubt contribute most of the acoustic piano parts, but all three masterfully tweak their electronic gadgetry in blissful anonymity. Basically, there’s nothing else out there that sounds quite like this.

“Incubator” reincarnates early Cluster thanks to its chimera-like structure, one part quacking pulse, one part purring background noise, numerous parts strangely flanged electronics. On “Gefallig”, someone’s tickling the ivory plains under a shuffling, fading sunset of a rhythm while faux horns blow and delicate if tenebrious effects phosphordot the landscape. Both “Inclement” and “Squiggle” chart murky terrain, peculiar electronic doodles zipping about like elfish simulacra; squishy rhythms become a gamelan orchestra conducted by astronauts as stabs of rasping synth wail in protest. For reasons unknown, the closing “Ruminator” brings things back to “normal”, its Budd-ing pianos suggesting early evening come down from those atmospheric highs.

Quasi-chilling but not chilled, this is a trio light on its feet, nimble of phrase and savvy in composition, trading dark and light with extraordinary finesse and crystal clarity.
– Darren Bergstein
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