Label: Auf Abwegen

Jim O'Rourkeが参加した92年作!!1983年からDaniel Burkeを中心に不定形実験プロジェクトとして動いているIllusion Of Safety。オリジナルは1992年4月にTesco OrganisationよりCD出版、Jim O'Rourke、Thymme Jones、Mark Klein、Mitch Enderle、Chris Block、Dan Burkeの編成にて録音された[Cancer]がリマスター仕様で初LP化。もともとは31曲編成だった音源をLP様に再編集したものであり、ミニマリズムとダークアンビエントを取り込んだ異色の部類に入る、どこか架空のサントラ的イメージの内容。アブストラクトなカッコ良さは勿論ながら、ラストをピアノソロで締め括る流れも見事。









The origianl 1991 album sequence has been edited down from the original 60 minute CD program to fit on an LP and remastered. Additionally the material has been coalesced into 7 specific tracks (instead of the arbitrary and annoying 31 indexes on the CD) as available here A1-B4.
Track 8 (A1-3) and 9 (B1-4) are the full uninterrupted album sides available as such.

This one was mostly a group effort focused on a dark ambient atmospheric environment and experimental minimalism that crawls under your skin. Mark & Thymme’s heavy synth is omnipresent, Mitch & Chris scraping every piece of scrap metal they could find, Jim’s extended piano & tabletop guitar is apparent, the abstract sampling techniques of founding member Daniel Burke appear throughout, & the beautiful solo minimalist piano composition of Thymme’s closes the LP. Soundtrack like in its scope the album is another in the ongoing concept of music without a film providing a dark soundtrack to the nightmares or realities we wish we could forget. The 2025 edit & remaster removes the excess and hones the meat down to 7 essential tracks that show the projects oeuvre at that point in their lengthy history sounding clear & fresh with the newly mastered version by Andrew Weathers.