Some years ago, at my local library, I made a personal musical discovery that still gives me chills. The integrality of Debussy's piano works interpreted by German player Walter Gieseking still hold a very special place in my late night playlists. Gieseking is renowned for the subtlety of his interpretations, but there's one thing seldom underlined, although it's very important to the beauty of these recordings... there's this dated, flat, reverberating sound that gives it a timeless feeling. I believe that no matter what you do what matters is how you do it, and Sorc'henn's experimentations around keyboards have that timelessness created by the quality of the sound more than by what's really played. Voyaging on the same sabbatical imagery that taints all Sorc'henn's recordings, "Harmonium Pieces..." are done with the specific use of keyboards of all kinds, except maybe brand new Yamahas - i.e. harmonium, piano and harpsichord... Decay and darkness are indeed central forces of the boldly repetitive pieces that slowly fade into masses of distortion, taking that usually noble, but so fragile, instrument into far darker territories than usual. Far from sounding clich?, the obstination in these vampirical moods attains a kind of rare and quiet, classical beauty. With these simple processes, Sorc'henn offers up a wonderful record that makes me wish for more more Faunasabbatha records of the same kind! 8/10 --
Constantin Dubois (31 October, 2007)