| Zdroj | CMJ New Music Report, #373 |
| Datum | 28.3.1994 |
| Autor | Martin Aston |
Set the controls for the heart of the sun. This Prague sextet is already renowned for its ambient guitar-techtronics, which Free-D (Original Soundtrack) takes to the near infinite. While the group's debut EPs were more in line with a soft-focus My Bloody Valentine and Seefeel, its debut album dispenses with songs per se, loosening any ties that bind them to the earth (freed at last), and heading for ambientland's never-ending omniverse, or rather, the axis where the distinction between rock and ambience ends. Elements of Eno, the Orb, Pink Floyd, Aphex Twin and the Valentines are all drawn on for this starship enterprise; suitably recorded in two converted-church studios, the music has a sacred, up-there sublimity, fluttering and floating into the ecstatic ether. Instrument credits say it all - 'sound space oscillation,' `heavenly bells,' `bubble bass,' `low vibration,' `color rhythm sound'...vocals are soft moans or coos, while birdsong and Moog-synth burbles get equal space to roam. Free-D is a beautiful piece of work - entrancing, enterprising, full of efflorescent detail, a space bath with rejuvenating properties. Chill-out with "Trance (Among The Stars)," "Sooper Kosmos" and "Her Eyes Have It."