Christian Renou?s sleevenote for this album is most enlightening, as he shares thoughts on his working processes across the four years since he stopped making music as Brume. His adventures with computerised recording and, as he puts it, a quest to ?explore the structure of the sound itself, at a ?molecular? state? could well have resulted in excessively polished sounds which lacked humanity. Instead, Renou has come through the processes and come up with ? once again in his own words - ?just soul music?.

I find myself agreeing with his description too: although there?s an almost glassy sheen from some of the sounds here and a precise quality which could render it anything but soulful, Renou still manages to be intense and moving, especially in a quite minimal violin piece with field recordings of water to accompany the strings. His acoustic guitar has a bell-like chiming quality and if this all sounds a bit too nice for you, there?s lacerating noise bursts which lead this well away from any kind of new age comparisons.

Add in an enveloping de/re-construction of a choral recording of Amazing Grace (yes, unlikely but true!) and you have a highly varied and enjoyable album. 8/10 -- John Cavanagh (24 October, 2007)