If "Mørketid", which I've just reviewed, shows that Alessandro Tedeschi is willing to try new paths, "Kall - The Abyss Where Dreams Fall", released by the quality Angle sub-label Mondes Elliptiques, plunges us back to his known mental swamps, and I personally welcome the experience. Featuring four tracks clocking in at 53 minutes, the disc, packaged in a superb white cardboard cover, is quintessential Netherworld anguish: crawling drones, grinding metallic loops, sparse noises and cavernous pulses, disquieting whispers and moans... Under this aspect, there's nothing different from what we already knew from his previous releases (except a superior sound quality), but I think that those were very mature and successful from the very start, so repetition is not an issue with me. This is a top-notch "dark ambient" album if, by this tag, you mean the solipsistic inner soundscapes of Lull and early Thomas Köner, rather than the Lustmord school or more bombastic CMI-style stuff. Netherworld uses only a handful of selected elements, and his strength lies in how he combines them - his "breathing" mix of near-silences and grinding bursts which does make this a scary trip, even if you're more than used to audio horrors. Excellent disc, guaranteed to be one of my favourite this year.