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Vital Weekly 332
Dronaement's previous releases have been dully presented in these pages before but Rabbit's Sorrow is unknown to me. The latter is one Sebastien Roux, who plays 'guitar and sounds'.
This is his solo playing, besides being a member of Un Automne A Lobnor and Oldine. Dronaement and Rabbit's Sorrow have worked together on this CD, a nine piece suite of ambient guitar music. At times they come close to say Windy & Carl or Stars Of The Lid, but at other occassions, they follow a harsher path and end up more in abandoned industrial sites. However their ideas are well worked through and they clearly thought about how to produce an entertaining darker ambient CD. Dwelling a great deal on guitar sounds that are recognizable guitars (mind you!), they are more in ambient rock areas then in the true experimentalism. So much better for them, I guess. They could get more fame there. Very nice CD.
Frans de Waard

SONOMU - SoundNoiseMusic
A Franco-German collaboration, the soothing sounds contained within 'Between Two Yearthousands' were recorded onto four-track tape and minidisc and swapped back and forth between Dronæment (Marcus Obst, analogue drones) and Rabbits' Sorrow (Sébastien Roux, guitar) before the fine final results were achieved. The nine pieces here (the first five of which comprise the suite "Ladoga Horses") succeed in effecting a stimulating cross between beatless, guitar-based ambient and eerie isolationism.