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	CADENCED HAVEN - Peregrination (cd)


	CALLISTO - Nyx (cd)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - Behind the Shadows (cd-r)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - Eigenspaces (cd-r)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - In this Moment, In the Place (cd-r)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - Light Echoes (cd)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - Nights of Brightness (cd-r)


	CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS - Hydrophonic Garden (cd)


	CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS - Interloper (cd)


	CARBONEIDS - Synthsyg (cd)


	MARTIN CARRADUS - Analog (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY & BRANNAN LANE - Climatic Infusion (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY & BRANNAN LANE - Dreamswirl (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY & GERARD GEARY - Mount Meru (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Natural Wonder (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Oceanic Space (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Skyhearts (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Starlight Volume 1 (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Starlight Volume 2 (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Starlight Volume 3 (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Suntales (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - The Inexplicable (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY & SYLKEN - The Endless Vista (cd-r)


	CHARLIE CASE & JONN SERRIE - Out of the Blue (dvd)


	DOLORES CASTRO - Fifth Dimension (cd)


	CATALIN - First Breath (cd)


	CELL - Hanging Masses (cd)


	CENTROZOON - Lovefield (cd)


	PETER CHALLONER - Abstract Ambient Form (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Beneath the Ice Flow (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Deconstructing Silence (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Interpolation (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Lunar Tide (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Music for Cloud Watching (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Music in Ambient Motion (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Music in Suspended Animation (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - The Other Side of Time (cd-r)


	CHAR-EL - Heaven and Earth (cd)


	CHAR-EL - Resurrection (cd)


	CHAR-EL - Worlds without End (cd)


	CLAUDE CHEMIN - Esthésies (cd)


	JOHN CHRISTIAN - Susbarbatus (cd-r)


	CIRCULAR - Sustans (cd)


	THE CIRCULAR RUINS - Empathy Test (cd)


	CIRCULUM MUSICUM - Phases (cd-r)


	TIM CLARK - Tales of the Sun People (cd)


	VINCENT CLARKE & MARTYN WARE - Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle (cd)


	MATT COLDRICK - Music for a Busy Head (cd)


	COLLAPSAR - Beyond the Event Horizon (cd)


	COLOURFORM - Visions of Surya (cd)


	COMPUTERCHEMIST - Aqual Measure (cd-r)


	CONTINUUM - Volume 1 (cd)


	CON_SENSE - Code Sent (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO & BRUNO SANFILIPPO - Indalo (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Ars Lucis (cd)


	MAX CORBACHO - BreathStream (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Far Beyond The Immobile Point (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Moontribe (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Nocturnal Emanations (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - The Resonant Memory of Earth (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Vestiges (cd)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Astral Journey (cd-r)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Electric Trick (cd)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Hypernova (cd-r)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Outerspace Gems (cd)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Space Gems (cd-r)


	BEN COX - On Water (cd)


	ROBERT HAIG COXON - The Silent Path (cd)


	JAMIE CRAIG - Illumination (cd)


	CREATE - In the Blink of an Eye (cd)


	CREATE - Lost on an Island of Adventure (cd)


	CREATE - Space Time Continuum (cd)


	CHARLES CREVIER , FRANCOIS KIRALY AND JEAN-FRANCOI - Music from the Sky (cd)


	CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE - Ausländer (cd)


	CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE - Moonscapes -How stones become enlighted- (cd)


	CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE & MATT BORGHI - The Intercepted Transmissions (cd)


	CYCLOTIMIA - Wasteland (cd)


	CYMPHONIC - Strataradialis (cd)


	CYSCAPE - Deep Sea Explorer (cd-r)

THE CIRCULAR RUINS
Empathy Test
CD, DataBloem, 2003

I’m not that familiar with the music of Anthony Paul Kerby, aka The Circular Ruins, although I’ve heard his album "Confluence".

In a different way than usual, his organic-flavoured ambient creations on "Empathy Test" (containing works from late 2002 and 2003) are a slow drift, but one accompanied by various organic elements, voice samples, rhythm, clicks and sometimes even sounds of insects, birds, etc.

Lighter, but rather clouded drone-textures shift on and on, but don’t expect this to be easy music when I say that some faint traces of melody can be discerned.

Next to repetitive, hypnotising microstructures, this music is a kind of chilled ambience which isn’t my cup of tea.
On the other hand, I’m sure hardcore ambient fans will certainly find a lot of their liking when they have a careful listen to "Empathy Test" as a whole.

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