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Jorge Reyes – El Costumbre
CD, Extreme, 2018

“El Costumbre” -realised in affinity with the customs of the Huichol Indians of Mexico- is an album featuring graceful yet subtle world ambient merging smooth soundscapes by Steve Roach with various native instruments played by Jorge Reyes and Juan Carlos along some guitar work by Mick Franke. The result is a shamanic, mysterious and profound organic affair fitting in the same dark ambient format and earthy intensity as the two Suspended Memories albums.

If you appreciate the haunting netherworld ambience of the latter, the two longer tracks on this release (the title piece and “Peyote-Venado-Maiz”) tick similar aural boxes.