Up-and-coming imprint Paradigms started off with this CD re-issue of the limited edition 10" from SF chamber-doom ensemble AMBER ASYLUM, who now boast members of trance-BM legends WEAKLING. Garden Of Love is the first new recording from Amber Asylum in years, a welcome return of their gloomy, moody string/horn/heavy arrangements moving languidly over a bed of voice, trumpet, viola, cellos, piano, percussion, etc. This disc has the original 4 tracks from the 10" vinyl, plus a previously unreleased song called "Serenade". Following their previous recordings on Relapse and Neurot, these songs are heavy, brooding works, working an almost funeral-doom weight into neo-classical forms. The heaviest points are found on the first two tracks, the first channeling those SKEPTICISM/UNTIL DEATH OVERTAKES ME vibes through somber string arrangements and ghostly operatic vocals, and the second song delving into an ominous cello/stabbed strings construct that wouldn't be out of place on an early 80's Argento soundtrack. The following tunes ("Stillpoint part 1 and 2" and "Serenade") are more delicate, beautiful, even fragile, string heavy textures with Kris Force's ethereal singing, like Godspeed You! Black Emperor mixed with Cocteau Twins floating on sheets of cello drones and clouds of reverb.

Excellent Paradigms presentaion in a color wallet sleeve slid inside of a sealed brown envelope with hand-stamped artwork, in a strict edition of 750 copies.