Genre: Experimental / Ambient

01 The ruins
02 The flow of existence
03 The life flow of time
04 Silent rain
05 Distant whispers
06 Machine ghosts
07 The flow of pain
08 Exit
09 Through the aperture
10 Whats left?

With the many albums that the german label Contra musik produktion has released and that I have at home, its inevitable to notice their printed covers and art are done on a printed photo paper instead of paper. It is refreshing on most of their releases, but it really hits the spot on "Distant whispers" by Dead industrie. John Fink AKA Finkster AKA Dead industrie is a photographer, you see. On his website, John fink is a photographer with many works concerning endless horizons and roads that lead to nowhere. The photos, poetic in their barreness, are speaking of patterns and repeatitions, and these patterns are important and are shown on "Distant whispers" as well, because this album is also a photo album. And when a normal photo shows it's creator's perspective about a given scene, this photo album is an interesting attempt to catch abstract constructs of imagination into a specific frame.

It is not that far fetched. The sun, although obviously a material object, yet beyond our possible grasp, is producing sound. Music. As well as every star in the sky. There are cds with this translated drones from the fire giant available for listening. If NASA managed to bring us these sounds, Fink is trying to produce sounds created by flows of pain or of existence. A good example is "The flow of pain". Reminding me of the pictures I saw on his website, as pads of sounds draw the flow, drifting between tiny sounds that paint the space and gives the percpective and point of view. The burst of violins at the end of this track is a fine example of the metaphysical and mysterious, if not poetic aura that is constantly encountered throughout this exhibition. "Silent rain" is shown clearly and beautifully as a soft, rythmical entity that delicately fall on the ground with soft chants. "The flow of existence" offers similiar structures with liquid movements which illustrates this different kind of flow, as every track, every picture, illustrates a given abstract subject to fine details.

Throughout the album, John Fink is combining in a beautiful way elements that are almost spiritual in order to create these vivid scenarios with a flow of buildup that reaches a certain peak before a slow dismanteling at track number ten, with the appropriate name "Whats left?" . As eerie music flows calmly, you can hear drops of water coming by the end of the track. Washing away everything you have just withnessed, and reminding us that these images are actually fragile and tends to dissipate after being shown. This is a small penalty to pay for such a delicate and good composition work.