Notes from the cassette, which was released in 1992 on Simulacra Records indicate, “Sleep is an audio document of the cyclical process of sleep itself. It is a musical exploration of hypnagogia (tracks 1-3), REM and various somnambulistic processes (4-9), awakening (10-12), and finally the recurrence of this phenomenon.”
One reviewer notes: “Side one kicks off with “Submission” & quickly establishes itself as dark ambient electronic music, most closely comparable to LULL – a drifting, tinkling atmospheric piece which cycles around like a star-filled pocket microcosm, suggesting – instead of infinity – much more cramped & claustrophobic dimensional limits. It fades into a dim churning amorphous darkness, as of heavy granite clouds rolling along bleached landscapes. From here it changes into another mild mellow atmospheric piece with a sudden, unattached slice of found dialogue. “Screentest” slides out of the speakers as stealthily as gas, another cycling star system of muted spangles & jingles. “Ventriloquist” is perhaps a more Industrial-sounding piece, slower, stranger, suggestive of dark subterranean dwellers beneath city streets, performing rituals over great reverberating distances of metal piping. “Smear The Rushes” rises up in dark shrouds, all edges removed, it’s amorphous shape honed down into something strange-yet-somehow-alive:- a bloated freak-being through which shines strange objects. It veers off along another dimension for “Trackmarks”, a strange journey through a tunnel both metallically echoing & biologically peristaltic. “The Abbey Road Twins” again uses slow grinding percussive notes, cycling in Surreal representations of rhythm much in the same style as the wonderful ALIO DIE – very other-worldly, very bizarre. “Pulsed” again uses a dark, calming warm drone of sound combined with a percussive loop, a short but atmospheric piece.”
Tear Ceremony
Sleep
(Simulacra Records, 1992)
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01. Submission
02. Screentest
03. Ventriloquist
04. Smear The Rushes
05. Trackmarks
06. The Abbey Road Twins
07. Pulsed
08. Blind For Diamonds
09. On A Drowsy Sea
10. Allayed
11. A Piece Of Now
12. Sleep In The Eyes
13. Recurrence
