DREAM INTO DUST "Salvation’s Corridor/Crystal Mirrors" picture 7", 2002 ATHANOR

Since the mid-nineties Derek Rush has been offering his very original music visions, first with a previous incarnation as December, and since 1.997 with this extremely interesting project called Dream Into Dust. Also, he has another and different way to express his music abilities with his companion Bryin Dall under the moniker A Murder Of Angels. But I will leave a longer description of his career for the next review I will write on his recently released new album, "The Lathe Of Heaven".

In November last year he left us this succulent aperitif in form of a beautiful picture single limited to 333 copies, including two exclusive tracks. You will find a considerable difference between these new pieces and most of Dream Into Dust discography. On this single, he offers really new perspectives and keeps a certain distance with almost all he has released to date. Firstly, during the two compositions he leaves behind for a while structured songs and builds instrumentals with a less symphonic perspective. The focus of this seven-inch is interestingly different, and this reason makes the vinyl an essential acquisition. The always emotional intensity of his music creation is also focused in a different way, and this opinion has highly increased after listening the new album.

"Salvation’s Corridor" is a very slow tempo piece, basically offering programmed percussion, and very oppressive minimal ambience that soon keeps gaining prominence. This is some kind of path that introduces its way towards another new and maybe unknown dimension. Thus, the composer tries to make the listener feel that hard evolution, where the atmospheres are highly loaded, and while the basic percussion seems invariable in its heavy and distressed journey, surrounded by a growing difficult process. "Crystal Mirrors", therefore, leaves behind the distorted manners of the opposite side to offer a melodic sequence created for the contemplation of a work of art, or of a new state of mind. This is accompanied by an acoustic guitar, a fine thin melody, and by a beautiful intensity that soon invades the listener. We are under the influence of a piece from a nice and original soundtrack, where every bit of sound is special, and a dense self-spreading ambience lives in the back. From the long corridor to the intricate forms of those mirrors, until everything falls apart with the sudden end, as an unexpectedly final sensation.

This parenthesis from "The World We Have Lost" CD in 1999, until this new single has been long, but this new material worth the wait. Moreover, the single have several reasons to be purchased: It contains two exclusive songs, not only due to the fact that they haven't appeared before, but because of their peculiar style that really makes an important distance with Derek's previous works; also, the picture is very nice and limited, and finally, it is a bridge in time from the first to the new and second album.

F. Paco González