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parvorbital
The Durandal
Sanctuary-RI

re: Sanctuary-RI
b1

This isn't my favourite Sanctuary track, but there are days I feel like listening to this more. More than the others, RI feels relentless and cold, a musical hall of mirrors. It's the most aggressively repeating Sanctuary track, which puts its real purpose into even starker relief-- listening to the changes in rhythm, in texture, in layers and patterns, each change holding for just long enough to savour before moving onto the next. Like a lot of tracks I enjoy in this vein, there are details that delight well after the first listen-- the way the notes of the main ostinato seem to start to pan left and right erratically, almost haphazardly, and the way it shifts at 0:41, blurring its tonality a bit, were things I noticed much later. To me, the Sanctuary tracks represent some of Ujico's boldest, most gripping work, something I was thrilled to encounter when I did, at a time I was looking for something just like it.