The album uses tiny elements from an iconic European classical composition  Johan Strauss’s Blue Danube and the resulting  5 tracks start off sounding like a less timeworn  and more lush William Basinski  compositions made from looped and stuck string elements that really capture the awe inspiring feeling of sailing  over vast white frozen dunes of a snow desert, or swooping & diving into mile deep ice cannons.  As the album progress the tracks  slowly  become more blown by freezing winds and seemly  cracked by  lying  in arctic climate too long- their melodic loops less defined  and the tones seem to become more muffled  and stretched out. It also seems to hint at  a darker quality as if the  sun setting on freezing landscapes. By the last track ice whispers, the longest here at near on 35 minutes - the arctic wind and deep stretched-out tones have all but replaced the melodic, lush elements- the drone textures still just hovering with melodic touches, but with now with a  much darker hues. The track really  conjures up  such a tangible feeling of solitude, chilling wonder and vastness of iced and frozen land mass.

Certainly the best thing this relatively new label has released thus far & one of the ambient highlights of this year.