Strange alien cosmic throb comprises this CDR album from the obscure Italian project AER, which is a solo deal from someone named "L.A.". Couldn't find

out anything else about this project, but the music speaks for itself - this is a heavy synth feast with gobs of dark, space-drifting buzz and shimmering

astral ambience right out of the 1980's that stretches out across infinity, conjuring images of exploding stars and eldritch nebulae, of dead planets hanging

in space and strange colors that are impossible for the human mind to fathom. The tracks are titled evocatively enough ("Oblivion", "Void Within", "Esoteric

Emanations", "Asymmetric Chambers", "Under A Crimsonj Sky", etc), and AER creates an effective synth-prog atmosphere that soaks the music in an unearthly

haze. Buzzing, synthetic drones and rumbling ambience move through the void and are surrounded by epic layered keyboard riffs and all sorts of little sonic

events, spacey melodies appear and disappear, pulsating moody basslines stalk through the darkness, and various alien electronic sounds emerge through the

murk. The classic space/kraut rock of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream is obviously a component of AER's DNA, but there's also a bit of the epic and

cinematic New Age of Vangelis and the rhythmic propulsion of some of Claudio Simonetti's post-Goblin 80's era soundtrack work in here as well. The music of

Light Beyond The Universe is bathed in a black cosmic light that puts this in a similiar realm as that of Neptune Towers, the ambient space music

project from Darkthrone's Fenriz, and fans of Fenriz's krauty black-hole descents are going to eat this up. Procyon-x and Zombi are also reference points;

though AER isn't as proggy and rock-based as the latter nor as isolationist and minimal as the former, this is right up your alley if yer a fan of either of

those projects. The disc comes in a small clamshell case with a sepia toned cover and a small insert card pasted to the interior of the case.