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	STEPHEN BACCHUS - Ambient Origins (cd)


	STEPHEN BACCHUS - Etherium (cd-r)


	STEPHEN BACCHUS - Pangaea (cd)


	JONATHAN BADGER - Metasonic (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI & MATHIAS GRASSOW - True North (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI & NIMH - Entities (cd-r)


	AMIR BAGHIRI & WEE BANDITS - A Brief History of Light (cd-r)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Bluebox Collection (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Cages (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Dreamresources (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Exosphere (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Planet X (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Rooms (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Time (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Winterscape (cd)


	AMIR BAGHIRI - Yalda (cd-r)


	CHRISTOPHE BAILLEAU - Air Resort (cd)


	DAN BARRIO - This Physical World (cd-r)


	EVAN BARTHOLOMEW - Caverns of Time (cd)


	EVAN BARTHOLOMEW - Secret Entries into Darkness (cd)


	KEVIN BARTLETT - Glow in the Dark (cd)


	KEVIN BARTLETT - Near Life Experience (cd)


	ADRIAN BEASLEY - Powerhouse (cd-r)


	MICHEL BEKKERING - Cosmopolitan Dances (cd-r)


	DENE DE BENEDICTIS - A Lone Reply (cd)


	DENE DE BENEDICTIS - Salvaging the Past (cd)


	MICHAEL THOMAS BERKLEY - Arctic (cd)


	MICHAEL THOMAS BERKLEY - Images from Earth (cd)


	BERNHARD - Down on Earth (cd-r)


	BETWEEN INTERVAL - Autumn Continent (cd)


	BETWEEN INTERVAL - Radio Silence (cd-r)


	BETWEEN INTERVAL - Secret Observatory (cd)


	BETWEEN INTERVAL - The Edge of a Fairytale (cd)


	AMIN BHATIA - Virtuality (cd)


	MARK BIEHL - Landscapes (cd)


	DANIEL BLANCHET - L’Harmonie des Mondes (cd)


	SERGE BLENNER - Musique de Chambre (cd)


	DANIEL BLOOM - Event Horizon (cd)


	BLUE STONE - Breathe (cd)


	BLUETECH - Phoenix Rising (cd)


	BLUTIGER FLUSS - Dawn of Mars (cd-r)


	BLüCHEL & VON DEYLEN - Bi Polar (cd)


	BLüCHEL & VON DEYLEN - Mare Stellaris (cd)


	CHRIS BOCAST - Through the Airlock (cd)


	WOLFGANG BOCK - Cycles (Lp)


	CLAUS BOCKSTANDT - Voyages (cd)


	IAN BODDY & BERNHARD WöSTHEINRICH - Hemispheres (cd-r)


	RICHARD BONE - Experiments ’80-’82 (cd)


	RICHARD BONE - Infinite Plastic Creation (cd)


	RICHARD BONE - Saiyuji (cd)


	RICHARD BONE - Short Waves (cd-r/dvd-r)


	RICHARD BONE - The Eternal Now (cd)


	RICHARD BONE - The Spectral Ships (cd)


	RICHARD BONE - Vesperia (cd)


	RON BOOTS & FRIENDS - By Popular Demand (cd)


	RON BOOTS & FRIENDS - Joie de Vivre (cd)


	RON BOOTS & IAN BODDY - Phase 3 (cd)


	RON BOOTS & JOHN KERR - Offshore Islands (cd)


	RON BOOTS, KEES AERTS & HAROLD VAN DER HEIJDEN - BAH! Live in Sweden (cd-r)


	RON BOOTS - 80's Box (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Acoustic Shadows (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Area Movement (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Beyond the Boundaries of Twilight (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Current (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Derby! (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Detachment of Worldly Affairs (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Different Stories and Twisted Tales (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Dreamscape (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Ghost of a Mist (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Liquid Structures in Solid Form (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Mea Culpa (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Of Desolate Places And Urban Jungles (cd-single)


	RON BOOTS - Screaming Whispers (cd)


	RON BOOTS - See Beyond Times, Look Beyond Words (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Tainted Bare Skin (cd)


	RON BOOTS - Too Many Secrets (cd)


	MEG BOWLES - Blue Cosmos (cd)


	KEVIN BRAHENY - Galaxies (cd)


	BRAIN LAUGHTER II - Not Far from a Distant Sun (cd)


	BRAINWORK - Ten (cd)


	STEVE BRAND - Bridge to Nowhere (cd-r)


	STEVE BRAND - SoulSpiral (cd-r)


	THOM BRENNAN - Satori (cd-r)


	THOM BRENNAN - Shimmer (cd-r)


	THOM BRENNAN - Silver (cd -r)


	THOM BRENNAN - Stories from the Forest (cd)


	THOM BRENNAN - Vibrant Water (cd-r)


	BROEKHUIS, KELLER & SCHöNWäLDER - Blue (cd)


	BROEKHUIS, KELLER & SCHöNWäLDER - Live @ Dorfkirche Repelen 2 (cd)


	BROEKHUIS, KELLER & SCHöNWäLDER - Repelen 3 (cd)


	BROKEN HARBOUR - Broken Harbour (cd-r)


	VINCENT BRULEY - Dauphins et Baleines (cd)


	VINCENT BRULEY - La Nature s’endort (cd)


	BRUNETTE MODELS - Last Poem (cd)


	HAROLD BUDD & CLIVE WRIGHT - A Song for Lost Blossoms (cd)


	HAROLD BUDD - The White Arcades (cd)


	RICHARD BURMER - Invention (cd)

DAN BARRIO
This Physical World
CD-R, Private Release, 2002

To say that this work of 45 minutes is just an ambient-floater with some darker edges would be far too easy. Dan Barrio is a 26 year-old musician and audio-editor for film and tv, and has contributed some of his sound genius to the film The Blair Witch Project.

After five years of sculpting his own sounds and music, "This Physical World" is his first official release, one that is able to raise your eyebrows for sure. On this album, Dan has achieved to paint some introspective dwellings by means of soft textures with a more or less minimal approach.

The eleven tracks presented here are reflective in nature and sounding very mature as it makes you wonder about Life in past, present and the future world. The dense sonic tapestries shift between dark and light, soft loops and drones are spread out with slight use of melody once in a while.
"Melodic interludes" 1 and 2 shed a little light on the rather heavy content encountered here, with some nice environmentals closing in on you on the eight track "Under". This track, more than all the others, gave me the same feeling as Thomas Ronkin’s great track "A Lovely Drowning" or Tim Story’s album "Drop".

In general, this nicely crafted concept album falls in the same range like early James Johnson, Laocoon, but with more mesmerizing undercurrents. To me, "This Physical World" actually is film music for the mind, painting the beauty of decay and the cycle of life in a slowly evolving manner.

The record is one for close listening in the evening or at night, which will grow with every next spin in the cd player. I can only hope Dan won’t stick to only one record…

Website: www.danbarrio.com