After the release of a bunch of albums with the project Different State, Marek Marchoff return to this project after a couple of decades. Instead of his main project, this is an experimenter form of neofolk, where the acoustic skeleton is moved by electronic muscles, something closer to the weirdest moments of Current 93.
The music of an old record, used with a carousel, introduces the listener to "in deep forest" whose gentle guitar acts as a carpet for the voice for Ingrid Dawn Swen and the small noises creating a charming soundscape. "Philosophy" is based on noised and resonances while "in deep forest theme" takes the theme of the first track into unknown territories. "Still waters" returns to the form of a folk song dialectically connected to an electric channel. "Animal in the circle" reveals instead some psychedelic influence and "music box" returns to the old record of the beginning of the album acting as an interlude leading to "the fallen", based on delayed guitar notes and distorted music lines. All the instruments (guitar voices and samples) are filtered in "Terminal rise" while an hypnotic loop is the basic element of "seeing" and the (worked?) dialogue ending the track sounds like a (sad?) call to reality. The cello of "the bridge / different state - mega re-constructed /" closes this release leading the musical path into a crossroad between industrial and trip hop.
Something the absence of any ground-breaking moments could be seen as a negative element but, when it's the symptom of a solid craft of the form, it's the path to sharp form whose beauty emerges with every listening. Truly recommended.