Yes, there are more side projects and solo albums that can sprawl from Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice. Most prominently, Wooden Wand has cut a mesmerizing album with a new outfit called the Sky High Band and Vanishing Voice already have quite a few sides worth of music sans Wooden Wand. Here, one of the Vanishing Voice, Gabriel Lucas Crane, goes solo as Nonhorse. Comprised of songs that work as vast collages made out of source material from piles of audio cassettes, ?Haraam, The Circle of Flame? is a sonic windstorm of sound and texture.

A list of the different and distinct sounds on this album would be quite varied and a few feet long. Telephones ring, synthesizers die, answering machines plotz, guitars from somewhere?..amplifiers shorted out?.it really would go on for a long while. On first listen, much of this just sounds like a barrage of sounds, layer upon layer, just blasted out. But upon further listen, the layers are rather precisely placed and provide structure for the pieces. While it may be a far cry to say that each of these is structured in the sense of arcs and choruses and whatnot, the cuts on Haraam function like vignettes. The 13 pieces on the album are supposedly composed solely of found sounds from old cassettes. I don?t necessarily doubt that these were all found sounds as much as I marvel at the possibility of coming across a box of tapes with all these out-there sonics. Either way, Nonhorse has done a fine job of constructing a truly engaging set of relatively fuct jams. Like how I imagine it would be watching an old B-movie with the sound being played backwards, ?Haraam, Circle of Flame? is disjointed and perfectly out of step. 7/10 -- Adam Richards (13 March, 2007)