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• Artist: Gunter Muller
• Album: Reframed
• Label: Cut
• Year of Release: 2007
• ME Rating:
• Reviewed by: patchen on 2007-03-13

Muller’s ambient drone is quiet and reflective, and while there is not much to recommend it as a different kind of quiet and reflective drone than what you’ve heard before, it is still welcoming and though-provoking. Anything that inspires a calm and silent mind works for me. A set of five tracks built off manipulated and bowed cymbals, “Reframed” explores what sound does by itself when given room to move. Though Muller has performed with the likes of such human riots as Otomo Yoshihide and Jim O’Rourke, he has also played with guitarist Taku Sugimoto, whose work this record is more comparable. Like Sugimoto, Muller’s pieces incorporate the atmosphere and the sounds of the environment as well as the manipulated instrumentation. The result is a wash of sound and presence that seems oddly timeless.

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