Eugene S. Robinson & Philippe Petit "Chapel in the pines"

I got used to the fact that Fourth Dimension Records usually puts out records that both have very high quality of sophistication and at the same time bear the mark of individuality thanks to the critical ear of the owner the mighty Richard "Rycho" Johnson who mercilessly and wisely limits himself to putting somewhat original records in a huge wave of drone/noise/improv/ambient music which is rarely original even with great effort.
Eugene S. Robinson has collaborated with turntable magus Philippe Petit on a record that comes as a great surprise.
With a cover that opens a dimension of religious influences, turntablism conondrum, guitar layers of intense climaxes and edgy nuances of aetheric mood shifts, rumbling drones of an avalanche power and preachers' malignant vocals.
It's hard to put a quite accurate description of what is happening on this album.
The lead of guitar and vocals that help you to immerse in the wave of misty mountain top hermitage trip is backed up by turntablistic sphere which creates a landscape of delusional edginess and feverish spasms of drama and suffocating tension.
It could be well used in a theatre but the album itself is a theatre piece of its own. Dissonant and well-organised at the same time it helps to tread lightly in a swamp full of booby traps and piercing sonic surprises. Well done, guys!

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