Thomas Köner - Zyklop

Zyklop compiles five of Thomas Köner's installation productions dating from 1998-2002 -- long, quiet stretches of carefully textured ambience created for museum exhibits. "Une Topographie Sonore: Col de Vence" is surely the most accomplished work here, stretching the distance of the entire first disc of this double album. Over the course of an hour, Köner and co-producer Yannick Dauby certainly present the "sound topography" they bill the song as: lulling silence gives way to a series of real-world field recordings that transplant you from dreary ambience to a distant field where crickets chirp and other sounds of nature surround you. Read More