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"New Zealand's Seht (aka Stephen Clover) has spawned a musical monster around one consistent idea: that simplicity can be the most mind-expanding drug around. Over the course of a dozen releases on labels like Last Visible Dog and Celebrate Psi-Phenomenon, Clover has perfected this artform. Using a minimal array of instruments and effects, he sculpts every sound source he can find into soothing walls of aural bliss. Doing more with less is rarely done better than this. The Green Morning is Seht's third proper CD release, and comes on the heels of a series of limited CD-Rs. Through his ability to synthesize a seemingly endless array of sounds into a single, focused point, Seht acts as a modern composer in the same vein as William Basinski. Clover's drones have explored various territory through the past few years, everything from glacial ambience to deconstructed blues. The Green Morning is like the early moments of dawn, bathed in warm plumes of sonic sunlight. These songs are the memories trapped beneath the floorboards, and by looking back, Clover offers a mere glimpse into the ambience of a not-so-distant future."
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LVD 057CD
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"First real CD from little known NZ knob-twiddler/sound-sampler/drone-minimalist in the footsteps of Peter Wright and Omit. Seht is one Stephen Clover, who has released a handful of drone-oriented limited lathe cuts under different names. Not as single-minded as you might think; Mr. Clover's approach to the drone thing uses different instruments to create a series of droning and repeating pieces that vary wildly in mood from each other, and sometimes pull a sudden internal switcheroo too. There's everything from minimal acoustic-guitar plunk surrounded by clattering percussion to huge walls of all-enveloping feedback. Successfully marries analogue synth with 'digital treatments' of found sounds to create subtle ripples in the deep pool mirror of the 'other'."
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