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This is a strange, intermittently fascinating, slightly disturbing, and ultimately simply rather puzzling album. Based on a text taken from the Cantus Circaeus (Incantation of Circe) of Renaissance cosmologist Giordano Bruno, Athlantis is something like an oratorio -- though its musical influences are all over the place and draw as much on medieval as Renaissance influences. Melodically, it evokes everything from Gregorian chant ("Inquisito") to Islamo-Iberian melisma ("Ros Vespertinus"). There are dissonant tone clusters ("Vespertiliones"), a monodic and really quite lovely trumpet fanfare ("Conciliator"), some harmonically advanced and rhythmically minimal passages ("Iupiter"), a little dab of sprechgesang ("Athlantis"), and something that sounds an awful lot like the Swans would if Michael Gira were a 16th century Italian troubadour and played the sitar. Intrigued? Well, that's one possible response. Confused slumber is another. But who's to say which would be the more correct? Rick Anderson, All Music Guide

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