Label: Aleph Zero Records
Released: 2009

01. Shadows Fly Behind You
02. A Day For Great Deeds
03. Eating Fog
04. Enough Time
05. Naaga
06. Disorientation
07. Message
08. Airport Song
09. Morning Ritualism
10. Fell From The Sky
11. Interlocked
12. Delgermaa
13. Return
14. Falling Through The Earth

Already during the first listening to "Falling Through The Earth" album, already during its first tracks, came to me, as if also already greatly consolidated, thought, which earlier continuously couldn't express oneself in a graceful statement, and get out of everyday's all thoughts' chaotic crowd: a perfectly typical Aleph Zero Records release. This label had its vision from the beginning, presented even dogmatically by, let's say: at minimum, the half of another released CDs, which overtone has been forming its own "I", though by some way already formed. In that time, there was such an event like Vataff Project's "Kalitz" in 2008 - a complete avant-garde, a masterpiece of masterpieces, which - what isn't bad under no circumstances - has been mining, more than usually, psychoactive elements from the endlessly rich Musical table, and was going into the Beauty more intensively, than even the Aleph Zero policy and willingness demand it. (The glory of Aleph Zero). However, had been flowing from the heads of Yaniv Shulman and Shahar Bar-Itzhak, the authors duo of the label, mainly such a course, which "Falling Through The Earth" - the album by Stockholm-based, Sweden, so far almost anonymous artist, Fredrik Ohr - is exactly the perfect exemplification; that Typical release.

So what is, let's answer this question first, that typical Aleph Zero release? It's enough if I do a few lines on a paper. The typical Aleph Zero release is a release technically polished, where there is no accidental sounds. Although the idm, glitch and breaks influences (which are, from their principles, these "unexpected" sounds) are, then they are well thought out and suddenly arranged always after that thought; never before the thought. The typical Aleph Zero release does not avoid emotions, but admire them, sometimes exalting them. Yet that exaltation, though which one by oneself always seems to be something embellished to the core, in the label's frames assume yet a form of hot, unusually increasing warmth, which is never forgetting about a melancholy sensitivity, this measure of romanticism or spontaneous heat, that is changing into sentiment or nostalgia or depression (but not into suicide death yet). In addition, Aleph Zero isn't erasing the "psy" history. For sure isn't exposing the ecstatic ecstasy, but tiny bit of the familiar designs: pleasurable complication, feeling of a journey, blissful rest - yes, there it is. Psychedelic trance was the electronic "psychedelic" which today, in 2009, over a decade after its triumphs, can be still doing well; on a little bit different ground, because on a downtempo - but does it doing well or not, depends always on artists and publishers. And they - these ones from Aleph Zero - fortunately, in at least some minimum degree, are carrying on the beloved colour; what's unique.

But for why saying so much about a label, thereby so little about an artist, which by oneself after all is a just creator of audible music? It's simple: because when we're thinking about the relation between artist and label, and when as quick as a flash, after a moment or few, we're more interested in label than in artist, that means, that the label is objectively excellently good, because is exciting, because signs its trace in the history of the music. Everyone can have a good release, it may happen that, but not everyone can have a series of good releases - and in addition, with the own tattoo on them. So when I'm personally looking at Aleph Zero, my first thought is "a label", and then "a given artist". That's pure gold, I subjectively think, symbol of high quality. "Falling Through The Earth" is a perfectly typical release of Aleph Zero: so as well in the straight line: a beautiful music. Fredrik Ohr connected his mind with the vision of the label's duo. That's the result already - that Thought, after which one the Creation came... Harmony from the zero point to the end. "The smallest infinite integer", as the Aleph Zero means, is emerging... That's a fascinating phenomenon, since Fredrik released before on the scene only "Return" composition on "Earth Octave Lounge Vol. 2" compilation in Interchill Records, and in 2005; four years ago... So maybe it's a kind of unique type of musical telepathy, since they met...?

However, although the Ohr's music in astonishing way entries Aleph Zero and this is its great plus, in this case there's an ominous thing as well. These are always twins: music comes from a label's body, at the same time you can't repel a feeling that you already saw it somewhere (and you know it even if you really ask: yes, it was in this label, too). "Falling Through The Earth" could be the result of the cooperation between Hibernation (details, technique), Omnimotion (melodies, eclecticism) and Unoccupied (slowness, no hasteness). Sad "Eating Fog" with a melody on flute and soaring, muddle-headed vision vividly reminds me that cooperation between Shulman and Hibernation, which, by the way, has never happened. The album as the whole reminds Shulman's "Endless Rhythms Of The Beatless Heart": listening to, you feel, unimportant where you are at the moment, an expressive yellow-red-green flora all around. From single tracks a similar optimism and life's affirmation break free from cybernetic-exotic "Message" and a bit energetic-tribal "Return". But how an imagination can be paradoxical during adventures with music, because for the main impression with that friendship the other thing fights, that the album has a sphere of cold, where shows us a lone person, which however is full of thermal thoughts, though marching with hesitant aim on the midpoint of an iced over surface of a huge lake, by an assist of dry air, by an assist of the sun that is being some hope and bright aura, that somehow (I wonder how) is reflecting these scorching thoughts of ours in that surface. (And we follow them...). This vision, with emphasis on frost, is being exploited in "Enough Time" and "Disorientation" - inconspicuous, modest, fragile compositions. By contrast, "Airport Song" and "Morning Ritualism" are rather warm than cold - so as if more adjusted to the inner warmth than that "weird" "stroll". As a matter of fact, that inner warmth of this music made the impression on me to mention about the Shulman's album - how much cheerful, after all.

The sound of this album, the most strongly served in "Fell From The Sky" and title "Falling Through The Earth", is lyrical, gentle, soft - and these are also the Aleph Zero adjectives. That sound moves with a certain distinction, realism isn't strange to, but it deeply penetrates surrealism first and from that surrealism the delicate sounds arise - from this, maybe, its internal richness. But this is not a psychedelic journey. This is an emotional journey. The album has, almost all the time, the lounge aesthetic. So sure problem of it is charisma, i.e. its not too much amount, how specifically and clearly characterizing the lounge style. In this respect it's one of the less dazzling Aleph Zero albums. It needs time and understanding. Patience is, however, a great virtue: also in a certain moment there will come an enlightenment and already since that time a great happiness from deriving Ohr's very own idea, which is a sentimental return to the 70's psychedelia. The initial track, "Shadows Fly Behind You" - that sentiment sounds beautifully with that vocal in the electronically detailed light. That's also one of the perverse examples of charisma. The other charisma, and perverse as well, is "Interlocked", the masterpiece of this album - perverse, because that's probably the only one so kaleidoscopic image of a psychedelic note, though future already - that electronic one. The aroma of these examples isn't corresponding with the type of interludes-tracks, as well the shortest ones (about three minutes lasting): "A Day For Great Deeds", "Naaga", "Delgermaa"; more ambientish, and extending already big calmness of the sound, yet devoided of unforgettable impressions.

By oneself this cocktail of the 70's psychedelia, friendly frosty atmosphere and oriental spices, is unique undoubtedly (at least because every beauty is unique), however, it's just an expansion of the Alpeh Zero sound to inside, not to outside, and by ownself isn't, beyond a shadow of a doubt, a rarity worthy of "Kalitz". And so it gradually arranges and completes in case of the artists which are debuting on the scene through Aleph Zero: brilliant "Kalitz" by Vataff Project, marvellous "Some Things Never Change" by Hibernation, very good "Falling Through The Earth" by Fredrik Ohr, good "Everyday Life" by Unoccupied.