TRACKLIST

1. Circadies. . . . .4:20  2. Whispers . . . . .5:23  3. Dustlands. . . . .4:58  4. Raido. . . . . . .4:32  5. Napolese . . . . .5:31  6. Hang Garden. . . .3:18  7. Pteron . . . . . .4:37  8. Lunar Suburbia . .5:00  9. A Great Wave . . .5:34 10. The Balance. . . .4:19

IDM cult master Christopher Leary, the man behind Ochre, is back with a new offering of his dreamy ambience. It’s full of shimmering electronics, crunchy, crispy beats and sweeping melancholic melodies that recall classic electronic stars such as Boards Of Canada. Leary uses sounds with great care and, while the scope remains very much in the down-tempo electronic territories – analogue tones and glitchy beats – snatches of classical orchestration are peppered throughout, helping to create rich cinematic soundscapes. The Spanish guitar and flute of ‘Raido’ and the delicate silky strings and harp that adorn ‘Napolese’ sound off-kilter, whimsically carnivalesque and almost old world-y. ~ by Tessa Harris

As a big fan of 2006’s "Lemodie" and the following EP’s, I was glad to see Ochre’s new album had finally been released. This album is pretty subtle. The melodies aren’t immediately apparent, and he weaves sounds and ideas in an interesting but controlled way. Beautiful tracks like "Whispers" build and progress while sounds are woven like a carpet, much like classical music. The album has a lighter, brighter mood, with not much dark material at all. While he has some glitches in there I don’t think it’s fair to label him purely an "IDM" musician. He’s more in the same vein as William Orbit, with playful soundtrack like and beautiful compositions.
Certainly a beautiful album in places, and almost all the tracks hold the same quality and brilliant harmonies.

SPOILER!

CODE Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009 EAC extraction logfile from 7. August 2009, 20:21 Ochre / Like Dust Of The Balance Used drive  : MATSHITABD-MLT UJ-220S  Adapter: 0  ID: 0 Read mode              : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache      : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : No Read offset correction                      : 102 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out          : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks  : No Null samples used in CRC calculations      : Yes Used interface                              : Installed external ASPI interface Used output format              : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate                : 1024 kBit/s Quality                        : High Add ID3 tag                    : No Command line compressor        : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\wavpack.exe Additional command line options : -hmxd -w "GENRE=%m" -w "DATE=%y" -w "COMMENT=Released by a-one" %s %d TOC of the extracted CD     Track |  Start  |  Length  | Start sector | End sector     ---------------------------------------------------------         1  |  0:00.00 |  4:22.00 |        0    |    19649          2  |  4:22.00 |  5:25.00 |    19650    |    44024          3  |  9:47.00 |  5:00.00 |    44025    |    66524          4  | 14:47.00 |  4:34.00 |    66525    |    87074          5  | 19:21.00 |  5:33.00 |    87075    |  112049          6  | 24:54.00 |  3:20.00 |    112050    |  127049          7  | 28:14.00 |  4:39.18 |    127050    |  147992          8  | 32:53.18 |  5:02.57 |    147993    |  170699          9  | 37:56.00 |  5:36.37 |    170700    |  195936        10  | 43:32.37 |  4:21.38 |    195937    |  215549  Range status and errors Selected range     Filename C:\Rips\Ochre - Like Dust Of The Balance.wav     Peak level 97.5 %     Range quality 99.9 %     Test CRC 0B87584B     Copy CRC 0B87584B     Copy OK No errors occurred AccurateRip summary Track  1  not present in database Track  2  not present in database Track  3  not present in database Track  4  not present in database Track  5  not present in database Track  6  not present in database Track  7  not present in database Track  8  not present in database Track  9  not present in database Track 10  not present in database None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database End of status report

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CODE REM GENRE "IDM, Ambient" REM DATE 2009 REM DISCID A80B3A0A REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb5" CATALOG 5021449510726 PERFORMER "Ochre" TITLE "Like Dust Of The Balance" FILE "Ochre - Like Dust Of The Balance.wv" WAVE   TRACK 01 AUDIO     TITLE "Circadies"     PERFORMER "Ochre"     ISRC GBGLF0904801     INDEX 01 00:00:00   TRACK 02 AUDIO     TITLE "Whispers"     PERFORMER "Ochre"     ISRC GBGLF0904802     INDEX 01 04:22:00   TRACK 03 AUDIO     TITLE "Dustlands"     PERFORMER "Ochre"     ISRC GBGLF0904803     INDEX 01 09:47:00   TRACK 04 AUDIO     TITLE "Raido"     PERFORMER "Ochre"     ISRC GBGLF0904804     INDEX 01 14:47:00   TRACK 05 AUDIO     TITLE "Napolese"     PERFORMER "Ochre"     ISRC GBGLF0904805     INDEX 01 19:21:00   TRACK 06 AUDIO     TITLE "Hang Garden"     PERFORMER "Ochre"     ISRC GBGLF0904806     INDEX 01 24:54:00   TRACK 07 AUDIO     TITLE "Pteron"     PERFORMER "Ochre"     ISRC GBGLF0904807     INDEX 01 28:14:00   TRACK 08 AUDIO     TITLE "Lunar Suburbia"     PERFORMER "Ochre"     ISRC GBGLF0904808     INDEX 01 32:53:18   TRACK 09 AUDIO     TITLE "A Great Wave"     PERFORMER "Ochre"     ISRC GBGLF0904809     INDEX 01 37:56:00   TRACK 10 AUDIO     TITLE "The Balance"     PERFORMER "Ochre"     ISRC GBGLF0904810     INDEX 01 43:32:37