Already by the first listen given to Tomasz Zawadzinski's album, the title suggestion will not disappoint us - indeed, the artist's pieces are very suggestive as far as visual associations are concerned. Zawadzinski's work is deep-rooted in the Berlin sequencing tradition, whereas he represents this party of the Berlin School, which is by no means afraid to explore new musical teritories and experiment on them.
Already the title track is a good taster: the first half of the composition explores spooky deserts a la "Ultima Thule Part 2" by Tangerine Dream, while the second one injects the Listener out of the dark and into some rhythmic lands of pulsating sequencers, dreamy arpeggio-clouds and wonderful intuitive improvisations. "Impulses of Abyss" conjures up a metallic flanger mood, in which mysterious sequences now dissolve, then freeze. Pay attention to the vast background soundscapes, as if coming from some obscure Salvador Dalí dream or the long bygone "Pink Years" of Tangerine Dream.
A slight decrease of speed, whereas the sounds get more metallic, distorted, and grungy - here comes the next piece, "Walk towards Sequencer". This 19-minute-piece brings quietness and some elements of tightness simultaneously. "Swamps of Reverb", a very short one, is surely one of the most appealing episodes of the CD. Rather ambient as Berlin-like structures are here wrought in fantastic electronic fabric a bit like in Paul Nagle's "Lore".
The coda, "Running thru the Rhythm", is a good piece of music in which sequential electronica, Pink-Years-TD-moods, IDM and very sophisticated trance join forces. In such a way, tradition and a close look into the future get unified.
