The first sound of Mantra is like that of a motor starting up (motor, not engine), which is only remarkable because nothing else like that ever happens again in the piece. It’s repeated several times in the first few seconds (sounding less and less like that motor, by the way) until overwhelmed by a long low drone, which carries the piece through the rest of its course. Along the way, other long sounds (either drones or rattles) join in, almost in such a way as to divide the piece into sections, the last with two distinct metallic spinning sounds, I mean three. Mantra evolves slowly, in long slow waves of great droning noise. And once the spinning stops…. Delicious!

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