���� Got this 2013 solo EP back in stock from Al Cisneros of narco-metallers Sleep and psychedelic hypno-heavies Om, here doing his dark psychedelic dub thing with two new tracks of deep, percussive throb and sinister opiated melody. Although this 10" came out on Drag City, it's presented like the records that Cisneros has been putting out on his own Sinai label over the past few years, with an ultra-minimal white sleeve. As with the other singles that Cisneros has put out lately under his own name, the sounds on this record speak for themselves though, both of 'em moving through menacing shadow-draped dub grooves, a malevolent vibe emanating from these skittering, echoing rhythms and simple minor key synthlike melody wafting through the darkness.

���� The first one "Ark Procession" is pretty creepy stuff, almost Scorn-like with it's skeletal percussive patter and pulsating bass, the instrumentation stripped down to a spartan arrangement of echo-laden drum loop, that distant horn-like synth melody circling over the deep bass guitar groove. The other side "Jericho" is a direct continuation of that first side, but leading that trippy, threatening bass groove into an even more cavernous space, the skittering percussive loops becoming blanketed in more subterranean reverb, the atmosphere growing even more menacing as the crack of the snare and the hiss of the cymbals are stretched out further, blurred and teased into a ghostly rattle that drifts ghostlike through these gloom-draped chambers, occasionally blasted with doses of gritty static. Pretty zonked-out in relation to the other solo platters, this stuff would probably appeal to fans of dark classic dub experiments from artists like Muslimgauze and Bill Laswell. One of Cisneros's darkest solo records, and probably my favorite of the bunch so far.