"Jonathan Deasy is no stranger to the readers (I should hope), even when not all of his work is reviewed. From his previous work, we know him as a composer who loves to work with digital technology, which we may call a laptop artist, yet his results are pretty warm and beautiful. On 'Le Sacre', he works with "sine waves and SuperCollider"; maybe this means he works in real-time. With this kind of drone music, it's always curious to know how these things are made. I am inclined to think the sine waves are from the lower end of the spectrum, but maybe they are not. I may have glanced at SuperCollider once or twice in my life, but the higher mathematics of this software eludes me. However it works, it works very well in the hands of Deasy. There is an orchestral aspect to the music; I wondered if I was listening to processed cello or trombone sounds at various times, and I realised it wasn't. The slowly ascending and descending notes sometimes give the music a dramatic feeling. It's movement too slow to fit a soundtrack (unless the film is of similar slowness), but it's music to sit back and enjoy. Best enjoyed, at least here in these surroundings, on an average volume, and let this roll about slowly in my environment. Not as a full-on immersive listening, because it's too massive and dark for that, but forming a lovely backdrop for whatever I'm doing, usually various things simultaneously and sometimes nothing at all. That's the sort of thing I like, and clocking at one hour, it's excellent value!"-Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

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