Neuma Records release Philip Blackburn's Justinian Intonations. Floating miasmic vapors. A chorus of mystery monks. Flights of Angels. Clouds and swirls of echoes. Weightless sounds that swirl and eddy and carry you downstream on your timeless journey to sleep, to death, to birth...?

Is it meditative, experimental electronic music or the ambient sounds to a movie that doesn't exist? Philip Blackburn's Justinian Intonations is all of these and much, much more.

The album contains two track: 'Out Beyond' (5 min, 11 sec) and 'Justinian Intonations' (50 mins, 16 sec).

For some reason 'Justinian Intonations' took me back to the '90s when I saw an exhibit at Wapping's pumping station. It was a dark, dank room which had been flooded and green neon strip lights were suspended from the ceiling. There wasn't any music playing (that I remember) but the eerie industrial feel and the echo of dripping water left a lasting impression. And ''Justinian Intonations' created in me the same feeling of wonderment and awe.

I'm sure (and hoping) that each listener will have a similar experience as it is chillingly magical to be transported back in time to a memory of an event that has long since passed.

I was impressed by Blackburn's ability to leap inside our heads with rather monotonous and repetitive ambient sounds

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Nick Smithson