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Title: Schutze's odds and ends
Review: Call it electronic, millenial ethnoambient, electroacoustic, or alternate universe, whatever one calls the music of Australian Paul Schutze, one cannot deny its indisputable stamp of genius. This is some the most original, disturbing, evocative music around. Interesting that Schutze goes largely unnoticed in the U.S. since a great many so-called New Age composers could learn a great deal from him. Very few--Roach, Rich, Greinke, the Hypnos group--come even close. Schutze taps the unconscious; adds a bit of the ominous; draws from a stunning variety of acoustic, electronic, ethnic, industrial, and mythological sources; and produces soundworlds of unparalleled richness and dimension. Highlights from this collection of what the composer calls "Stray Particles"--Part 6 of a Tone Casualties series--include "two mirrors facing," "revered cigarette," "the heart that fades," and the title track.
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