With this Shakespeare-inspired band name, San Francisco based multi-instrumentalist windplayer, sound experimentator, mail artist Ferrara Brain Pan inaugurates his new musical project as well as his new label Panaxis. The artist has previously recorded with noisester Boyd Rice aka Non, the goth-rockers Bad Alchemy, the ambient/dub project 23 Degrees, the legendary Faust and co-founded the dark-ambient duo Darmstadt Pharmacy. Currently he is playing with free-jazz ensemble Jazz Trannies and drone project Dromedary as well, and if I may suggest this, a person with such a deep knowledge of wind instruments from all over the world should definitely hook up with italian multi-wind-instrumentalist Gregorio Bardini because they would really make a match of windplayers that would (dare I say) "blow" you away! ;-)"Cross Purposes" (also guest featuring Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound) presents part of this knowledge in medieval compositions that might remind you of The Soil Bleeds Black or other similar bands and pairs it up with dark ambient experimental music and art rock. Even though there is no specific musical reason to say this the whole vibe of the record kind of reminds me of Death In June as well. The EP goes from instrumental to vocal and definitely keeps and organic approach even though it feels a little discontinuous because of the genres, so apart from each other, brought together in just the short time of thirty minutes. But on the other hand I never found myself objecting to cross-pollinations of styles, so would I object to "Cross Purposes"?