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Rating:
THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM.
Suspended in time, watching the boreal dawn at 40° below zero.
This is the impression you get when listening to this "old" record (already reviewed by Hal, mannacc... oh well, certain emotions don't have an expiration date, do they?).
So, to the technical and descriptive notes of Hal, I can only draw upon and integrate the review with personal "emotional" notes that listening to this record gave me back in '93.
It was like diving into the icy water of a polar lake, listening to these 11 tracks amidst ambient, trance, downtempo, and experimental, different from each other in spirit and featuring various more or less famous performers (Björk, Suzanne Vega, John Cale, Siouxsie, just to name the most famous...). Voices retrieved or mostly discovered from the four corners of the world to underscore a thin red line connecting the project of our Algerian musician: a "borderless" music with strong references to meditation, a sense of peace and brotherhood among peoples, global integration, etc.
In short, even back then, certain tracks made the tiny hairs on my arms stand up a few millimeters, and listening to them today, these hairs, now partly white, go the same route as if to highlight the eternal youth that certain emotions have the privilege of making us feel.
An album of great class that inspires an apparent deep peace and, at the same time, a subdued and creeping unease, made of sighs, beats, seagull noises, flashes of distant thunder, as if to foreshadow something well beyond the apparent calm that overshadows the record. As if to suggest a "carpe diem" since of tomorrow there is no certainty. Almost a masterpiece.
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