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One of the big beasts roaming the electroacoustic savannah, Jonty Harrison combines technological sophistication and psychological subtlety with insatiable hunger for sound. His hour-long Going / Places ranges far and wide, quite literally, grazing materials from around the globe: railroad horns from Ohio; bubbling geothermal pools in Iceland;calls to prayer in Istanbul; Mexican bagpipers; frogs in Borneo; market callers in Melbourne. A travelogue of bewildering discontinuities, it rushes on with the uplifting fluency of a dream. Voyages also features Espaces cachés, a series of scenes and apparitions also crafted from found sounds. Originally conceived in 30-track expansiveness, the piece is here condensed into unusually vivid stereo. And Harrison never allows studio expertise to sideline potential for enchantment.

Julian Cowley, The Wire, no. 391, Thursday, September 1, 2016

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