Robert Davies - Sub Rosa

This is a disc that’s hard to qualify, hard to get a grip on. It’s first mark is its incredibly warm, yet slightly melancholy intro track, Cloud Shadows. We’re in completely beatless territory here, and there we remain for the rest of the running time. I would hesitate to call this drone music though... although it touches its toe into drones throughout, it tends to loose the soft, warm floating feeling of the first track as we move into the piece. It’s more about shorter form, slightly more structured work… each track is more like an experiment with a motif, rather than a fuller exploration of it. It seems as if everything slips away before you can grasp it...

... which may, of course, be exactly what you’re looking for. A great work for quiet listening, as in letting it float past. With the exception of the first track (in my opinion), not such an easy one for focused listening.

For those that it’ll suit, thoroughly recommended.