Dafydd Roberts and partner Ruth have been sending strange four track invocations from the Welsh countryside out into the underground for a few years now, and their two projects, Alphane Moon and Our glassie Azoth flow and melt into each other, with boundaries between the two not always delineated. In the most reductionist terms, Alphane Moon is fractally-detailed and song-based folk psychedelia, and Our glassie Azoth is howlingly chaotic fields of abstract drone and noise.

Camera Obscura is pleased to be doing the second full length Our glassie Azoth release, "Euterpe Sequence", following closely on their fine self-titled debut on the German Plate Lunch label. The best description of this music comes from Dafydd himself: "Our Glassie Azoth was originally conceived as a set of pieces for an Italian tape compilation on the entropy of the natural environment. We, however, were living in a lovely isolated farm in utter solitude and things got out of hand…with Our glassie Azoth we try and make music that is of itself and of a moment out of time. When we make the music it is often with our one effects box gone mad, feeding back on itself. We can push it in a certain direction, reorder things, squeeze and reshape them afterwards. But at the best times the music then made comes of itself. It feels on an edge, which we enjoy." Much of "Euterpe Sequence" has a transcendental beauty and stillness - choral layers of drone forming numinous caverns of pure light in the tracks "Euterpe" and "An Heiroglyph scarce remembered".

"Gammahae" and "Insist upon the way" are more challenging, approaching the free noise guitar extremity of artists like Merzbow and Total. The latter in particular will stop many in their tracks, 20 minutes of the sound of worlds being torn apart by implacable deities. An informed conjuring of storms, wrought from an immersion in the recondite literature of 16th and 17th Century alchemists.