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The Remote Viewers: Sudden Rooms In Different Buildings

Read "Sudden Rooms In Different Buildings" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
March 25, 2004

More sparse than previous records (and also more emphatically electronic), Sudden Rooms in Different Buildings finds the British trio known as The Remote Viewers continuing to explore strange scenery. While what they do clearly has a limited audience, they manage to carve out a musical landscape that defies comparison and, consequently, makes for a captivating listen for those who dare visit it.

Starting off with a reading of David Sylvian’s “Ghosts” that is almost completely unrecognizable until Louise Pett’s delicate ...

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The Poison Cabinet: Dark Embrace

by Robert Spencer
December 1, 1999

Prepare to enter the Dark Side. If you succumb to the Poison Cabinet's cassette Dark Embrace, you will enter a world of darkness and distance, of shimmering midnight deserts and haunted desolate spaces. The dry and lushly acrid vocals of Louise Petts will beckon you further as she enunciates, crisply and patiently, the arch and ethereal poetry of these tracks. ("But wild within its trusted circle / pleasure, soon, did seem unreal / And, longing, lost . . .")

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