You might well never heard of Sky Burial, but following a limited CDR release, 'Spectrehorse' is the first real CD. If I tell you that behind Sky Burial we find one Micheal Page, who is also the main protagonist of Fire In The Head, things may fall into place, and perhaps you wonder about
the same thing as I did: where on earth does Micheal find the time to do all this? Fire In The Head is his noise based project/concept, but like so many others, he has time and the urge to play music that is softer. Sky Burial is his ambient/drone project, and the label cities such omparisons as Lustmord, Final, Zoviet*France, Skullflower, Earth and Sunn O))), which in some of these cases might be true, such as Lustmord, Deutsch Nepal or Skullflower, I don't think that Sky Burial plays entirely by the drone
book, and that of course is fine, since why should want to keep by the rules? To me it seems that Sky Burial is the louder version of say Final, Zoviet*France and such isolationists alike. Sky Burial uses extensively the reverb unit, that not only creates a sense of space, but also in this
case, a cold and mechanical setting for sounds to bump and collide. Perhaps in the end too noisy for the real drone-heads, and perhaps, certainly in a track like 'The Severed Wings Of A Killing Bird', too close to the music produced as Fire In The Head, this is nevertheless a fine
disc that should go down well with those who love their Cold Meat Industries and Old Cafes from Europe. (FdW)