“The most immediate reference point for first-time listeners would be Brian Eno's ambient and film music. Listen closer and Cipher's approach starts to sound much more original. There's a very interesting sense of construction about this music, in the way blocks of sound are built up, metamorphosed and sometimes taken away at odd-seeming moments, as if God were scoring a dub composition for clouds in the heavens. The sonic layers of loops appearing, dissipating and receding, of foreground becoming background, seem endless and make for engrossing headphone listening... This is trance-out music of the highest order.” - Progression (USA)

“Ambient music for post-club culture chillers....Cipher present a shifting, pulsing musical collage in which the both the common ground and the contrasts between pure electronica and more conventional instruments are explored to the full, with excellent results. File between your old System 7 albums and Jan Garbarek - then wonder why there has never been anything to put there before” - Amazon.co.uk

“A music of evocative electronic soundwashes, subtle acoustic jazz explorations, and considerable emotional resonance. For those who distrust electronic and ambient music, you might be surprised by this set.” - Jazz Journal (UK)

1. One Who Whispers 5.34
2. Celluloid 5.31 - real audio
3. Love, Death and Drowning 6.49 - real audio
4. The Last Word 5.21
5. The Apparent Chaos of Snow 6.44
6. Panoramic Lounge 6.28 - real audio
7. To The Shelters 5.07
8. Did It Happen 5.12
9. Absorbed 5.51

• Theo Travis: Alto Flute, Soprano Sax, Wah-Wah Sax, Samples
• Dave Sturt: Sound design, Programming, Samples, Bass

• Daevid Allen: Glissando Guitar (1,4,6,7,8)
• Richard Barbieri: Keyboards, Electronics (2)