Polypores - Multizonal MindscrambleStephen James Buckley aka Polypores returns for his second full album on the DiN imprint with "Multizonal Mindscramble". Though we've come to know a wide range of sounds from Polypores, it's here on "Multizonal Mindscramble" that we get plunged into the outer reaches of the inner psyche. Flickering insectoid transmissions are laid atop slowly shifting walls of drifting oscillators, barely discernible chirps and static encrusted filter sweeps. A

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Fanny Mendelssohn's Schwanenlied (also to words by Heinrich Heine) completes the programme

with the string parts mostly moving together to accompany it

and gamely spill out over the five minute mark with exceptionally loose interludes and diversions is just another marvel in this carnival of aural delights-it's a gem of a record and it's out on Castle Face

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This lyrical adaptation of the beloved Japanese novel by Junichiro Tanizaki was a late-career triumph for world-class director Kon Ichikawa (THE BURMESE HARP