Consisting of three long tracks, Portuguese label SIRR.ecords has again released a pure abstraction that is blissfully minimal. Hungarian Pal Toth plays out time in this near silent opus. Howling groans and vague barren hollows keep his work certifiably distant. Sharp ghostly churns are complimented by the austere unknown play with fore/background. This record takes time to warm up but once track two starts it has all the purr of an atonal ocean. We end up on the ocean, set adrift in a digital current, with the curvaceous lapping waves drawing the ear deeper into the central deep sea vortex. In the final four minutes distinct codes are flashed before our ears. They speak in fragmented patterns that are simultaneously anxious and distracted. By and large, OP.10218 v1.2 is a new step for micro-electronics but the artist’s hand is compellingly missing throughout, leaving the recipe in the hands of improvisational intellect.
