“KSE is proud to present a new 19-minute work in four parts from Norway’s ANDREAS BRANDAL, one of the most respected composers/sound designers on the international drone/harshnoise/ambient/electroacoustic music scene. Also working under the monikers Flesh Coffin, Lupus Golem, and Hour of the Wolf,  Mr. Brandal has issued dozens of albums on labels around the globe, two of my own favorites being “For Einer Nielsen” (on Dumpster Score) and “The Familiar Stranger” (on Small Doses). Recorded especially for KSE, MINUS’s four drones are deep and cavernous, full of molten flow and swirling pools, but with lots of room to breathe, and having a three-dimensional quality because of percussion textures (of wood, of metal, of porcelain) which seem to occupy the foreground of each audio landscape. The listener can create his/her own mental images while bathing in the audio heavy-water—I imagine abandoned nuclear reactors, sandy winds blowing civilization’s junk across a desert, underground rivers of chemical waste, meditation in the midst of a strip-mining operation. MINUS doesn’t sound especially like any other Brandal release, showing again what a eclectic talent he is, always juxtaposing new elements, always creating new and different sound environments.” – Bill Shute. 

Hand-numbered edition of 99 copies CD-R from this Norwegian musician/composer. Disturbing The Dust is inspired by TS Eliot’s masterpiece Four Quartets and consists of seven movements that take their titles from it. This is dark cosmo-drone with an insanely deep depth of field, ranging from gorgeous slow-motion sunrises of high gothic keyboards through thin, singing violin lines that illuminate the cavernous arcs of celestial melody and odd shortwave/field recording constructs that combine the sounds of covert surveillance with morse code melodies. A massively ambitious set from Brandal and one you could live in for weeks.