I'm always too late when I try to speak about some of the nicest releases coming from Colin Herrick's imprint Time Released Sound. The strictly limited physical edition (just 50 copies) of this mini-album by Ben Eyes, a sound artist drawing inspiration from the beautiful region of Northumbria in the UK - one of my favorite areas of Great Britain -, sold out in 15 days after it was released, so that you maybe won't find the finely crafted 3" CDr, but music is what really matters. The title of this 20-minutes lasting sonic journey refers to the initial source of inspiration, as the hook in Ben's musical mind was the terrible floods that hit England in winter 2014, but it lately embraced a wider reflection on the moment that mankind is experiencing: in Ben's own words, "The idea that we have permanently changed our weather system through our own doing is incredibly thought provoking and cannot be ignored. The floods and storms were some of the worst on record and seeing places I know and hold dear destroyed by the weather made me feel both extremely upset and helpless. The work of James Lovelock was also a large inspiration behind this piece and his Gaia theory (the idea that the Earth is one whole complex living organism) is unfortunately now being proven correct. Through the pollution of our own delicate eco-system we have caused untold damage for many generations to come, possibly forever.". The journey on "Fl00d" begins on a set of field recording Ben grabbed in the enchanting Holy Island of Lindisfame in Northumbria, but little by little and recording by recording (taken in other locations such as Berwick upon Tweed, Craster and St Marys Bay, Northumberland, Whitby, Staithes and Runswick Bay, North Yorkshire, Barry Island, Vale of Glamorgan, Oxford Circus and Soho in London), the listener got gradually absorbed in an almost mystical reverie smelling like environ/mentalism, where entrancing female vocals emphasizes the ambient-driven spleen, which sound like echoing the cry of nature against human daily mistreatment. A digital version is available on label's Bandcamp.