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 Part I Press play on Mathieu Ruhlmann's ‘Every Vein Leads to My Heart' and in a moment's time you'll feel like you're stepping tenuously into a dramatic, cavernous monastery. Dreamily bowed cymbals and metals ring out through encompassing reverbs, their inharmonic frequencies drifting towards each other in vain attempts to find their equal, but instead reconciling their differences to form beating-oscillations. This vast drone crawls onwards for fourteen minutes before being intercepted in the final moments by some rather anomalous vocal-like shards which somewhat upset the balance of the previous material. Part II I'm assuming that the second track is supposed to emerge seamlessly from the first, but a track marker disrupts this continuity. A forlorn piano appears in the distance, its notes dripping onto the drone-canvas. Several minutes later, these drips accumulate into ebbing crescendos, the omnipotent drone intensifying its cyclic breathing pattern. Field recordings taken from the remote location of Bowen Island, which lies off the west coast of Mathieu's hometown Vancouver, provide a sense that we are on our journey away from this heavy procession, up to an open outside location. But what the final track holds is nothing of the sort… Part III By far, this creates the bleakest soundscape on the album. The openness which emerged in part two becomes abruptly shut off, swallowed up by tinny groans and screeching springs. Upper frequency scrapes and interjections reverberate through desolate tunnels, providing points of aural interest outside of the perpetual drone. Mathieu is an artist who first began to compose music to accompany his visual art, which is largely based on found materials. Indeed, this CD came packaged in a wonderfully tactile assortment of materials. From his website (which is in serious need of content development!), we manage to discover that this new album was recorded over a three year period with each track representing one year, and for something composed over such an expansive period, it certainly holds its stability. If you have a certain penchant for Dark Ambient works, then check this tome out. Review by DJC de la Haye
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