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Ambient Music Guide

Review by Mike Watson
(2005)

DISORIENT and THE REALITY TEMPLES
Richard Bone

Bone's instrumental repertoire also includes some strongly rhythmic slow-to-midtempo albums. At least two of them fine examples of electronically-produced fusion music. The lovely Disorient sidesteps world music clichés with its sly humour and sheer quirkiness; ringing gamelan drums backed with odd choral sounds, or Arabic strings soaring over a tight electro-funk groove. The Reality Temples takes a similar approach to its disparate sources - India, Morocco, baroque music, soft jazz, trippy reversed tape sounds ala The Beatles and other 60's psy-pop. Less striking at first than Disorient, it surrenders its consider charms over time.

Reviewed by Mike Watson