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Rob Gould - DOME - Reviews
Conceived during a fairly turbulent two-year period in Rob's life, as he tells us in the notes, this 45 minutes' worth of highly potent ambient music, with its background synths, wierd sound effects, heartbeats and disembodied voices, manages to be calming, soothing and yet disquieting at the same time.
At its core (The 'Soft Centre') is an excellent passage that he and vocalist/flautist Natalia Brightmore recorded live at the University of Derbys' 'Dome' in Buxton in 2005. Atonal in places, but with beautiful melodic interludes, like the piano that comes in around the 33rd minute, it's a genuinely challenging piece of art.
Rob now looks upon its conception as a self-healing experience, but for me each listen has yielded something different, and the whole piece seems somehow to be a living entity. A journey through Rob's mind? It will be a journey into yours.
Dave Winstanley
Classic Rock Society magazine - issue 164
Jan 2008
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