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Jim Norman: Beyond the Beginning: Visitor in Time

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 1999

Jim Norman is quite literally a one–man band. Not only did he produce, edit, mix and co–master Visitor in Time, he also arranged the music and, apparently, performs it as well (digitally, I assume), as no other musicians are listed. And from the abstruse notions embodied in the liner notes, I’d wager he wrote them too. What Norman has produced is a series of ethereal, synth– and string–laden tone poems that, laid end to end, sound more like a science–fiction ...