This collection of intimate, eerily beautiful music by Dutch composer Fahres weaves naturally occurring acoustic phenomena with the playing of celebrated performers. The title piece...

This collection of intimate, eerily beautiful music by Dutch composer Fahres weaves naturally occurring acoustic phenomena with the playing of celebrated performers. The title piece features the breathy sounds emitted by the rock tube formations on El Hierro (westernmost of the Canary Islands) and performances by Aboriginal musician Mark Atkins and Los Angeles-based composer/trumpeter Jon Hassell, The two other works on the CD are Sevan, recorded near Lake Sevan (Armenia), featuring Armenian singer Parik Nazarian, and Coimbra 4, Mundi Theatre, a soundscape of a city-wide festival in Coimbra, Portugal. “I was transfixed by the haunting sounds and the poetic pacing of Fahres’ music on this CD. Rather than the sound floating through the room, it was as if I was floating in the sound.” [Morton Subotnick] “An exceptionally well-composed album, comprising very well-thought out concepts that have been delivered in an utmost ingenious and abstract way.” [Unknown Public (where it was a “favorite releases of the week” pick)] “Fahres is skillful in creating drama and blending the recorded materials into intriguing, musically satisfying soundscapes. The Tubes…is an especially impressive achievement.” [All-Music Guide] “This is the kind of recording that lets you get wondrously lost in someone else’s sound world.” [Sequenza21] “A beautiful and interesting approach to soundscape composition.” [Musicworks magazine]