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A Stranger's Wilderness

by Minimal Disturbance Factor

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This May Be Your Final Chance To Say Goodbye 01:24
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Sleep Well Wherever You Are Now My Friend 05:12
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3.
Little Wings 05:09
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The Stars Are Burning Brightly But The Distance To Them Is Too Great 10:26
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5.
Escape To Wonder 08:14
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Blood On The Fairground 06:10
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Static Kinetic 04:03
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8.
Dead To The World 09:24
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9.
Minor Freeze 09:10
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"Album number four and stylistically, not much has changed since 'Accidental Blackspot'. And although the latter nudges the head-to-head on account of its superior track placement, the pure and earthy vein of that album has been preserved here in a very natural follow-up.

The wistful piano lament following the opening church bell peal is quite, quite beautiful and opens up what Minimal Disturbance Factor does best: a skidding palette of looping ambient drone, finely coated with layers of colourful warming melody. And like the prose of a top-notch writer, it’s all shaped and pieced with guile and restraint: the collage of cloud formations on the record cover are a fine representation of the shimmering subtleties of hue and texture within the music itself.

Little Wings features hushed poetry and vocal harmonies against a shuddering backdrop of warping metallic sheets and once again MDF proves completely in control. Dead To The World is classical debris-drifting-in-space tranquillity, a soundscape that literally seems to go on forever...until Minor Freeze arrives, swiftly losing the listener in an endless succession of ice palace archways, only to suddenly emerge from the talons of this nightmare and return to a midwinter safe haven and final spring blossom.

The best electronic music is always greater than the collective noise of its components, and even with a sparing use of samples most of the tracks here feel like they’re about something, rather than merely coating the wall. But what? Ailing hopes of new worlds or fading memories of our own? The further magical, eldritch quality is that most of the pieces aren’t particularly memorable until that very precise juncture when they begin their wash over you again, making 'A Stranger’s Wilderness' a long-lost journal of gorgeous privacy and isolation."

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released January 18, 2008

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Minimal Disturbance Factor Dunblane, UK

Minimal Disturbance Factor is a Scottish electronic musician. He creates music with guitar, piano, voice, found sound and other instruments. If he were to be classified you could probably put him in the minimal ambient acoustic electronic genre.

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