Issued by the UK label Fleshmadeword in a ltd edition of 200 copies, "Maelstrom" is a 20' cd-r featuring one single track by the prolific Israeli artist Vadim Gusis, well known for a series of releases on labels like Crowd Control Activities, Drone, Stateart, and The Rectrix. Minimally packaged in a folded brown paper sheet, the cd-ep is a long, powerful ambient drone, with a kind of reverberated organ sound, quite different from other recordings of Chaos As Shelter's I've listened to - probably closer to a minimal approach, and actually not that dark, while maintaining a peculiar intensity in its monolithic repetitiveness.