Access To Arasaka is New York based Rob Lioy, a producer who is also in great demand as a remixer. Listening to this album it's not hard to understand why. He works with the same ingredients as label-mates on Tympanik and others in the field of ambient IDM but manages to bring a greater depth and diversity to the table.
There is a seamless flow to the thirteen tracks (all one word titles) on this hour long album which means that it is best listened to from start to finish.
The one vocal track is Lysithea where the plaintive voice of Jamie Blacker seems to emanate from a place of not so splendid isolation ("Are you ready to be alone").
The record's general brooding character made me think of the dark atmosphere of Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, a movie set in a barren post-apocalyptic landscape with elements of our own world seen from a surreal and distorted perspective.
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Geosynchron is billed as a final chapter of a 'quasi-trilogy' after the Orbitus and Aleph EPs. These works apparently carry "themes of oppression and the struggle to traverse inequitable boundaries".
As you would imagine from such a description, the atmosphere conjured up here is universally ominous and sinister, a powerful but by no means a comforting listening experience.
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