Sula Bassana - "Endless Winter" (Sulatron Records)
From Aural Innovations #34 (August 2006)
Sula (Dave) produced this during the long cold winter last year and it is mostly long spacey guitar excursions into space, with looping, overdubs and a lot of feeling… 4 tracks in 70+ minutes. Fields of Snow is a mellow slow echoy drifting piece with loads of delay guitar in layers. Cool. Next up is the 26 minute Endless, which starts with a heavy guitar riff upon which delay guitar is layered on and has a pretty basic single kick drum and repetitive bass line leading the way for a while as well. Very psychedelic trip music. Some really beautiful guitar at the end of this track. This could have been a Zone Six jam. Crystal Cold follows for the next 17 minutes of more spacey David Gilmour influenced guitar like in the live from Pompei spacey stuff. Early Sun ends this delay-space-guitar workout for the mind. Very cool stuff if you are in the right mood.
Reviewed by Scott Heller

Sula Bassana: Endless Winter, Sulatron Records (st cdr 001)
Endless Winter was improvised live by Sula Bassana (alias Dave Schmidt) with electric guitars, effects and two amps and includes atmospheric, a bit depressive music inspired by last winter. The over 14-minute long “Fields of Snow” has very ambient, relaxing and cosmic delay guitar playing. Also the 26:35 long “Endless” is very relaxing stuff, but there is also some rhythm and low frequencies in there. The hypnotic mood reminds me of Ashra a bit. This is a good, monotonic and repetition-based track that has a less rhythmic and softer ending. “Crystal Cold” begins with a tremolo guitar and peaceful lead guitar work and is very ambient in nature. The album is finished with “Early Sun” that is beautiful, wondrous and peaceful stuff. Endless Winter is a very pleasant package of soft, but a little gloomy music that brings out the more tender side of Sula Bassana in a beautiful way. This is good stuff for meditating. You can buy a copy of this CD-R limited to 100 copies for 7€.
By Astro at Psychotropic Zone

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