Wow! Definitely one of the best of ’09! Very organic drone. Might be a stretch, but definitely reminds me of Peter Wright—one of my fav’s. It drifts, it carries, it flows. Natural guitar drone sometimes supplemented with tape fuzz, piano, and field recordings. I can’t get enough of the second track, “Last Heights (Library Tapes Remix).” It is a soundtrack to damp summertime rural car rides laced with melancholy. It has a perfect solemn mood with a smattering of piano chords. The track would put the most ADHD listener into a trance, possibly to reflect upon the bigger questions in life. The entire set of nine tracks is purely faultless. .. review :: by Dave Miller

I don’t know where your shamans come from, or if they play long neck banjos and have tattoos that can expel from their flesh cells and destroy all evil if need be, but around here we’re safe with the fact that Dan Higgs roams the streets. .. review :: by Andrew Murdock Livingston

From Naples, Aspect(t) pop right out of the hole with a full frontal assault, and any Borbetomagus comparisons are highly in order. This could be Snuff Jazz Jr. Still, one can’t help but love their brutal acid, derivative or not. This is cathartic, blistering anti-jazz, full of horror and gallows humor... review :: by P. Somniferum

The first time I heard Toshiya Tsunoda's music was a chance encounter with Extract from Field Recording Archive 2, a collection of tracks derived from hollows in which vibrating air, captured using ultra-sensitive contact microphones, was magnified to a sultry, enveloping swarm, seemingly turning each bottle or crack in the lid of a manhole into a frail cosmos of sound, corners and crevices of the world which would act as lenses through which to discern their environment anew. The sonic effect itself was profound and disturbing, almost as if the listener becomes an architectural voyeur, peeking through these places to unseen depths and hiding places of sound. .. review :: by Joe Luna