Bee Mask: Elegy for beach Friday (Spectrum Spools)

Another fine release on extremely interesting Spectrum Spools label, and a compilation of sorts, most of these tracks having been previously release on limited cassettes and cdr's, although said tracks have been toyed with and changed. Chris Madak is Bee Mask and he has produced a beguiling suite of electronic drone symphonies, overlayed with occasional guitar noise and tape loops of miscellaneous noise and atonal soundscapes. Interesting throughout but only periodically enjoyable, this works best in short bursts as the noisier parts can really grate after a while. When he takes his foot off the pedal marked 'atonal substrata' the washes and waves of synths are an outstanding contribution to the world of cosmic synth music and it's a shame that these pieces are often pushed under by noise.