Fourth volume of Library Music miniatures by Daniel OSullivan (Ulver, thenor, This is Not This Heat, etc) for VHF, this time commissioned by the legendary German Music Library, Sonoton. Another sampling of OSullivans versatility and brilliance as a composer, performer, and sound designer, the focus on The Pastoral Machine is more electronic compared to the three previous albums OSullivan recorded for KPM (also issued on LP by VHF), with simpler arrangements and a focus on gentle and emotive synthesised soundworlds. Even without as many full ensemble arrangements, theres still a wealth of diversityEmpathogen opens the record with latticed arpeggiating sequences recalling Japanese environmental music or Persian Surgery-era Terry Riley, Fruit Of Stream Entry burbles with gentle ripples evoking the albums title, while The Silversmith Of Space mines a simple chord sequence evoking Enos 70s classic short instrumentals. Superstrings is a series of hypnotic overlapping guitar patterns, like a lost Ash Ra or Achim Reichel track. The brief Star Lore is a heavy highlight with deep bass washes and grainy, tape-laminated melodies, followed immediately by Rose Keeler Schaffelers vocal feature on The Oscillating Love recalling futurist new-age pop in the vein of Enya or Virginia Astley. Housed in a jacket and heavy euro-style inner featuring collages by OSullivan, soon to be the subject of an art book published by Timeless Editions in mid-2024.
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