The Dematerialised Passenger captures a frighteningly heavy industrial doom/prog/free jazz improv collaboration from the trans-atlantic forces of American musician James Hugget (bass guitar, guitar, electronics, and drum programming), and UK natives Martin Archer (alto and soprano sax, bass clarinet, violin, electronics), Mick Beck (bassoon), and Charlie Collins (flute). COMBAT ASTRONOMY digs in with complex and fractional machine beats that brutally anchor the free-improv explorations with a GODFLESH like level of percussive intensity as Hugget locks in with heavily distorted, downtuned e-bass sludge riffs. This mechanoid doom propels the ensemble through a series of 10 evocative compositions that incorporate MAGMA/Zeuhl influences, CIRCLE/krautrock style repetition, and Archer's superb saxophone parts that drift through a haze of textured electronic ambience and thick drones. I fell in love with this album the first time I played it, and it has continued to reveal it's nuances to me with each subsequent spin. The closest coordinates of reference that we can map out are somewhere between GODFLESH / LOOP and the out-jazz power of LAST EXIT, 16-17, PAINKILLER and similiar Zorn related outings, but this shit is really in it's own zone. Highly recommended.