The late lamented music journalist Lee Jackson was not usually lost for words but he wrote that Remora's Some Past's Future released in 2000 "comes off as a hazy surreal dream that makes perfect sense while you're experiencing it but is near impossible to transform into words or describe to someone".
The latest release from Remora ,aka Brian John Mitchell, is equally difficult to explain or summarise effectively.
His label make a brave attempt by calling it a work of "ambient dreamscapes and noisy terrors" but, really, there isn't a lot to say about these extended minimalistic drones.
They were created on a home set up using two guitars and two basses fed into a four channel recorder and , like La Monte Young's prolonged tones, they have no obvious beginning or end.
The experience lasts over an hour centred on three long tracks : Lack Of Response (20.19), Please Just Leave Me Alone (24.14) and Hope (18.09)
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If you wanted to consider what lies behind it all, you might imagine it as some kind of reflection on mortality since it begins with an unearthly voice reminiscent of Swans' Michael Gira saying "I always thought we'd live together and, if not ,we'd die together" while on Let Me Carry Her Body Through The Gates he repeats the line "Jesus remember me - let me walk into your kingdom".
Ultimately, however, it defies analysis and, while the vast majority will dismiss it as noise not music, I found the effect strangely purifying.
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