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"Another fantastic release from Aidan Baker, who when he's not making beautiful sounds on his own also spends time making beautiful sounds in the groups Nadja and Arc. Soundmaking and creating music has to be as compelling and interesting for the maker as it is for the listener, especially when it's improvised music. Often the process is as important as the resulting sounds, even if the listener has no idea what is involved. But often as a listener, it's pretty exciting to know just how the sounds were created. For Pendulum, Baker recorded an electric guitar in a single take, doubled it, and then reversed the double. That probably makes more sense to you guitar / tech nerds out there, but it is cool to think about the path the sounds here took from the guitar to our ears. Listening to this, it's difficult to pick out actual guitars, although they do surface here and there. Instead Pendulum is a smeared soundscape of blurry sounds. A wide open expanse of slowly moving tonal colors, drifting by one another, occasionally mixing together, forming new colors. Muted and understated, a twilit soundscape of churning low end and glistening high end, mixing together and forming all sorts of subtle sonic shadings. Subtlely melodic, a gorgeous deep droning drift, another one of those records destined to find a permanent home in the late night listening pile. So gorgeous."

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