Consumer Guide Album

David Behrman: On the Other Ocean/Figure in a Clearing [Lovely Music, 1978]
On Discreet Music and the Fripp collaborations, Eno taught me to appreciate this kind of semiimprovised, semielectric, semiminimal trance and/or background music, but I think Behrman, a Soho/California composer who uses computers for chance input and builds his own synthesizers, does it better. Certainly his textures are more interesting, without any hint of unseemly lushness--or of Glass-type climaxes, for that matter. Steady as she goes. A−