Mournful ambient electronics with a slow grace, drifting through a world of remembrances, an endless stream of stirring reflections.

[Color-in-color vinyl: dark green in crystal clear]

1992’s Terrace of Memories is ambient minimalism at its best. It’s an organic electronic album of longing and gentle melancholia. Sam Rosenthal (Black Tape For A Blue Girl’s founder/synthesist, then based in Los Angeles) and Dirk Serries (then recording under the moniker vidnaObmana in Belgium) blended their atmospheres and somber contemplative electronics on this timeless album filled with lush, dark and beautiful impressions. The swelling deep waves of the five tracks suggest memories of more pleasant times lost forever in the cold, lifeless present. Obmana’s icy and isolating textures are beautifully contrasted by Rosenthal’s warmer synthetic presence. It’s a blissful, slowly spinning environment creating a dreamlike, surreal universe for cont