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This is a first -- a recording that I can't decide whether to discuss on the indie-list or on IDM. Prazision is the duo of Mark Nelson and Carter Brown, and their music seems too have one foot solidly in the ambient world, and the other in world of american indie-rock. Synthesis -- what a rush! Some tracks on this record feature strummed guitar, and they all feature combinations of funky Moog sounds, heavily processed and reverbed. Their is singing and spoken word, mixed at a level where you might, with concentration, make out words. The overall feel is dreamy and vaguely sinister. 'Soft Return' is a kind of spooky evocation of reincarnation -- "Going round, it's clear you'll never stop/Going round, it's clear you'll never stop ... I'll be there to take you back inside the womb ...' All done to a I IV V chord change straight from the Jesus and Mary Chain, but slowed down, with echoing Moogs. They claim to have recorded it 'in Mckinley Hall, Downstairs at the end of the hall.' Like the Cowboy Junkies' 'Trinity Sessions,' the natural echo of the acoustic space lends a warmth absent from the digital echo effects used by UK Ambient artists. This is definitely a treat -- an album with ambient tendencies, but with a distinctly American feel. For the indie-listers -- 'Prazision' was recorded by Rob Christianson of the Eggs.