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Two CDs worth of chaotic ambient sounds. For the most part, these eight tracks are basically two different piano tracks being played at the same time with very little regards to melody and dynamics. On many of these tracks, the piano playing is so distant and drowned in reverb that it becomes a drone (i.e. the second untitled track). The last track on the album is the second track from Melancholia with the added chaotic layering of sounds (here it is mostly filtered drones), which somewhat destroys the emotive charge it once had. I love Basinski's work, but it is mostly for his talent of making music sound so evocative with so little resources; by mixing so many sounds together here, it is difficult to concentrate on only one melody. The work becomes more experimental because of this, but it also loses it's charm.