It's difficult to articulate the qualities that account for a distinguished ambient record, and yet when they are encountered, such experiences have a way of imprinting themselves on the subconscious, creating an impression that might be cheapened by reducing it to rhetoric; an appropriate response to a style of music that doesn't employ words at all. "Alphabet 1968" is one such album, a droning, dark-ambient release from Marc Richter aka Black To Comm. Richter has assembled a magical collection of deeply organic tracks that can be attributed to his expert use of horns, strings, and cryptic piano playing. "Hotel Freund" is the concluding track of his opus, providing a much needed breath of fresh air after emerging from this abyssal work.
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