Bernard Szajner - Superficial Music ,LP

I don't think there's a need to write biografical comments bout Bernard Szajner , since there are written in my previous post of his LP ZED,Visions of Dune, or they can be found here: http://www.szajner.net/ .

So only a review on this great LP:

"Superficial Music is compiled from selected tapes previously used as the basis of my recording Visions Of Dune. The tapes in their present form have been replayed in reverse at half speed without any re-recording and are enhanced only through the discriminate use of digital and analog devices."
- from the sleeve notes of Superficial Music
'Superficial Music 1' begins with analogue alarm clock trauma, from which emerge synth sequences and metallic clangorous sounds (ring-modulated no doubt). 'Superficial Music 2' sounds more obviously sdrawkcabbackwards with slower electronic percussion, and is in fact 'Ibad' without Klaus's treated vocal. 'Superficial Music 3' is an easily recognisable desreverreversed rendtion of 'Thufir Hawat'. 'Superficially Accelerated Edits' is fourteen seconds as described, sounding like musique concrete or birdsong. Side 2, entitled Oswiecim, is much more minimal, the sparsest of all of Bernard's music. I'd guess, since this was 1981, that he'd just got hold of a then-newfangled Eventide Harmonizer and was, like me, spaced out by the amazing sounds created by riding waves of feedback on the edges of space. It starts out with 'Ouverture': long pitch-shifted slabs of sound. 'Chant Funebre' is subtle slow drones, also with pitch-change feedback effects, somehow reminiscent of Brian Eno's sparse ambience without the long reverb. 'De-Terminaison' starts with oozing deep synths and distant pitch-shift clouds not unlike early Schulze-in-space abstraction.