[2000]
One of the great post-industrial dark ambient albums. This gets chucked into all sorts of categories now like ambient Americana and hauntology. Anyway this was an inspired collaboration between Zoviet France's Robin Storey and Nigel Ayers from Nocturnal Emissions, I mean that's industrial-ambient royalty innit. You've gotta think that this was probably influential on the likes of Moon Wiring Club, The Focus Group and IX-Tab.
The World Turned Gingham's got the lot it's pretty surreal, psychedelic and quite intense. Not really all that ambient in the "sonic wallpaper" sense as these sound collages have disorienting moments and jarring passages. It gets pretty eerie with all the disembodied voices and chopped and slopped slow motion backwards swarms of sound. There's all sorts of haunting reverberations, mysterious echoes, distant whistles, occult vibes, hallucinatory American radio transmissions, back-masked ghosts in the machines, hazy hypnotic loops, lonesome nocturnal atmospheres even an eldritch death ballad.
Psychedelic musique concrète of the strangest kind. Far out.
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