66 minutes, 21 seconds

Synaesthesia
Embody

Released in 1994, this was the first of three albums Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber (a.k.a. Front Line Assembly and countless other projects) recorded under the Synaesthesia moniker. The CD jacket lists one "R. Deckard" as the man behind the music, but of course we all know that name as Harrison Ford's character from Blade Runner. Why the cheeky anonymity? If Leeb and Fulber were worried about having their names attached to one too many side projects, well, by this time they were three too many side projects late for that.

Musically, this represents the ambient-tribal-ethno end of the spectrum for Leeb and Fulber, similar in some ways to Spheres-era Delerium or Future Primitives-era Intermix. It's not bad, but it's probably no one's favorite FLA side project.

It's good enough, though, for a Monday in which everyone else has the day off except me. Grr.

Also today:

66:20 Phelios, Images and Spheres
66:14 Dither, Neve
66:13 Potentia Animi, Das Erste Gebet
66:11 Antigen Shift, The Way of the North
66:09 Seven Pines, Le Cri
66:08 Zentriert ins Antlitz, Mutilate
66:04 Vidna Obmana & Jeff Pearce, True Stories
66:02 A Challenge of Honour, The Right Place