"In our little bodies, where we go to be alone. Hangs an ancient skeleton, made of hair and bone. For every thought an insect forms, then from our tongues they fly in swarms."
          Randy Greif's opening track is a series of organic tones bubbling beneath the surface of a dark soundscape. The track following is a disjointed set of melodies, played with the off-kilter rhythm of a metronome that's been dropped a few too many times.
          This is some of the more structured material I've heard from Italy's Old Europa Cafe, but it still maintains a sense of avant-garde recurrent within their releases. Each song is incredibly different from the next. From percussive tracks to chaotic stringed overtures, Greif covers a lot of ground.
          Illusion of Safety, on the other hand, have contained their side of the CD to a single lengthy track. They have a talent for being able to expand on sounds, and involve an interesting element of sight and touch in their textural audio collages.
          "Horror Vacui" is a fluid, continual piece of noise which almost seems like it was recorded in stream of consciousness. It slowly shifts and evolves from one set of sounds to the next, with a gradual mounting of intensity combating a slow decay. After 22 minutes the decay wins out, but not after four minutes of a sharp ringing sound--the song's warped death throes.
          I have absolutely no idea how they've created most of these sounds. I don't want to know either, since it would take away the mystery that requires your imagination to fill in the blanks.
          "In Our Little Bodies" is a great match up of two very unique artists. OEC is known for their high calibre of quality experimental noise music, and this disk fails to disappoint.

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