Lens - Techtron Dawn - Chimera Game II

[Limited edition 20 Grey on Orange| 80 Black on Clear]

Lens is the newest project by Woodman, an elder godfather within the Second Family Band and Davenport Family circles. For those of us lucky enough to get some of his rare self-released tapes, he also gotten us grooving by the name Mighty Diamond and also simply as Woodman. Woodman may be even more well known for his band Drunjus, a long-running, progressive and oblique drone-based duo with Endless. This latest moniker seems to be an extension of that devotional drone sound that he has been crafting with Drunjus. Though, where Drunjus can occasionally become towering, twisted and even atonal, Lens seems to be sitting completely still and focused in a disciplined meditation. Evocative waves of organ tone and simple analog synthesis come and go, pensive melodies gently interrupt the flow only to suggest themselves and disappear just as quickly. There is an organic regiment to the electronic motions of the first side, creating sequencer-like sensations that guide our drifting attention, perhaps bringing to mind Terry Riley and early Klaus Schulze. Over two side-long compositions, a balanced harmony gracefully haunts the tape, and while the first side indicates a developed and steady progression with organ and cosmic electronics, the second side takes things down even more to silent place where Lens can illuminate the room by sounding the ritual song of a single bell within a deepening chasm of a vacuous spacial drift.