Djam Karet: Gayle Ellett (guitar, keyboards, percussion, tapes); Mike Henderson (electric 6 & 12-string guitars, keyboards); Chuck Oken (keyboards, drums, programming); Henry J. Osborne (keyboards, bass, percussion). Recorded between July 1990 & April 1991. After the bedlam of BURNING THE HARD CITY, Djam Karet offers this amazing hunk of post-ambient rock for the listener's respite and pleasure. The band has retained the collective instrumentation from BURNING, but said sound tools have been re-tuned to receive sounds emitting from a parallel universe. Synths and guitars set up intricate, spiraling loops over which the tinkling of bells, logdrums, and assorted, mysterious percussives writhe and curl. And that's just track one. "8:15--No Safe Place" glides upon a raft of probing, quiescent guitars, while electronics and the pluck of chimes glisten in the atmosphere--entering and exiting. An air of menace soon intrudes, as synth swells rise in urgency. The tension reaches critical mass, and it all crashes to earth, the runoff of melted guitars re-emerging in a cooling lava flow. "Severed Moon" begins with distant guitar echo as light beams of percussion intrude. Then it's off to the knife-edge of Earth, where a ceremonial rite is ripped from the twilight of time. From there on in, it's up to you to reap from the multi-hued whirlpool of sound and vision contained within one of the more criminally underrated "rock" records of the '90s.

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Djam Karet: Gayle Ellett (guitar, keyboards, percussion, tapes); Mike Henderson (electric 6 & 12-string guitars, keyboards); Chuck Oken (keyboards, drums, programming); Henry J. Osborne (keyboards, bass, percussion). Recorded between July 1990 & April 1991. After the bedlam of BURNING THE HARD CITY, Djam Karet offers this amazing hunk of post-ambient rock for the listener's respite and pleasure. The band has retained the collective instrumentation from BURNING, but said sound tools have been re-tuned to receive sounds emitting from a parallel universe. Synths and guitars set up intricate, spiraling loops over which the tinkling of bells, logdrums, and assorted, mysterious percussives writhe and curl. And that's just track one. "8:15--No Safe Place" glides upon a raft of probing, quiescent guitars, while electronics and the pluck of chimes glisten in the atmosphere--entering and exiting. An air of menace soon intrudes, as synth swells rise in urgency. The tension reaches critical mass, and it all crashes to earth, the runoff of melted guitars re-emerging in a cooling lava flow. "Severed Moon" begins with distant guitar echo as light beams of percussion intrude. Then it's off to the knife-edge of Earth, where a ceremonial rite is ripped from the twilight of time. From there on in, it's up to you to reap from the multi-hued whirlpool of sound and vision contained within one of the more criminally underrated "rock" records of the '90s.