BERN4RD FALAISE - DO (2000)

Halfway through the day, we inadvertently took a detour from serialism and repetition into a few albums of guitar based frenzy and cerebral nullification. The shift worked like a charm, the chaos and white noise giving us renewed mental focus, in the way static noise can ease the brain to sleep.

Falaise, a Quebec virtuoso, was probably the hardest test of our trance experiment. A rambunctious, stunning album that captures the attention as much as loses it. A sonic journey well worth the slight fall in office productivity--and concentration--for its quality of frontal cortex refreshment.

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