ProtoU returns with her seventh album of experimental ambient music, characteristically combining spaciousness with layers of sound.
The overall feel is expansive, with thick, sweeping chords undergirded by manipulated white noise, rumblings, field recordings, and even what sounds like stringed instruments.
Science-fiction themed, one can easily visualize spaceships steadily traversing a panoramic backdrop of stars.
Add to that unintelligible radio transmissions, soft sequenced rhythms, and shimmering drones. While pastoral at times, the mood is also ominous, as the machinery of the cosmos is indifferent to the fragility of its inhabitants.
A frequent collaborator, ProtoU is assisted by…