Gusts of icy wind which lashes over a land while electric drones and sharp-edged echoes matche with the glacial crystals which blanket everything, the magnetic storms traces their wavering dances on the sky and some distant crackling fire. This is the first figurative and mental image of the initial track "Onder Het Noorderlicht" ("Under The Northern Lights") from this ambient limbo-like album that Amsterdam-based producer Sietse van Erve aka Orphax assembled between April 2005 and July 2007 during a delicate period of his life which occurred between the end of educational period and the beginning of working years when he fighted against an unknown (at that time) disease which swamped his mind with a plenty of questions with no answers, mirrored by its title "De tragedie van een liedjesschrijver zonder woorden' (Dutch for "The tragedy of a song writer without words"). Such an immersive and somewhat wistful listeneing experience, which got enhanced and rehashed in 2008 and 2010, keeps on wrapping listener by the suffocated numbness of "Geluiden Van De Eerste Dag" ("Sounds of the First Day") where rustling subcutaneous sounds sneak between occasional electric buzzes, the feeble and toneless drone of "Samen Aan Het Water" ("Together On The Water"), the estranging pale warmth of "Winterslaap In De Zomer" ("Hibernation In Summer"), the reprise of initial environmental icy suggestions on "Ochtendgloren Boven De IJzige Vlakte" ("Dawn Over The Icy Plain"), which sounds even more hypnotical and sinuously asphyxiating than "Onder Het Noorderlicht" and the final mystical and mystifying rise of "Het Bos" ("The Forest"). Just 300 copies have been released, so that if you're an immersive ambient-drone lover, I cannot but recommend to grab your copy.