After releases through Digitalis Ltd, Sanity Muffin, Golden
Cloud, and Petit Mal, Michael Henning has now found a beautiful new home on one
of my favorite Bay Area labels, Inner Islands… and I wonder what the hell took
him so long. His fearless explorations in blending vibrant themes of ambient,
minimalist, new age, Eastern/African, and the occasional booty-shakingnesses…it
just fits in with the II catalogue so perfectly. I’m always glad to find a new
sonic adventure, both intimate and, yes, I do dare say it, ‘cosmic’, and
through these progressive mediations, all carefully arranged and magnetized
onto one li’l cassette, I can paint and nap and nap and paint all goddamn day long,
intermittently crawling out of my skull for a breath of fresh air just in time
to catch the sound of a shooting star, aurora borealis, echoes of an ancient
santur-ian ghost, or an unidentified flying drum circle.
and/or
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- Jacob An Kittenplan