Abul Mogard - Above All Dreams
(Ecstatic)

Though, in some areas, there is considerable discussion as to who Abul Mogard actually is (many peoples money being on Moby or Panabrite or Pye Corner Audio), I am here to categorically state that I don't give a flying fuck who it is when the music is this amazingly awesome! Above All Dreams is a staggering suite of widescreen landscapes painted in self-built modular synth strokes; the lushest, industrial-est, ambient-est shit to hit the fan since Mogard's beautifully absorbing Circular Forms in 2015.
Counting six original pieces in its 66-minute wingspan, there's no mistaking that Above All Dreams is the most expansive solo release by Mogard to date. Taking into account its intangible divinity and cinematic quality - the result of no less than three years diligent work - it is arguably elevated to the level of his master opus; presenting a modular distillation of Mogard's most intoxicating strain of hauntology. Consistent with Mogard's music since the sought-after VCO tapes, c. 2012-2013, the allure to Above All Dreams lies in his ability to evoke and render feelings which are perhaps purposefully avoided in more academic echelons of drone music. Rather than a purist expression of physics through maths and geometry, Mogard voices his soul, improvising on modular synth for hours, days, months, and years in the same way a more conventional "band" develops group intuition. 
The results are best considered as the ephemera of non-verbal communications. From the gaseous bloom of "Quiet Dreams" to the opiated depth of "Where Not Even" to the starlit awn of "Upon The Smallish Circulation", and through the B side's keeling, 16 minute+ panoramas of "Above All Dreams" and "The Roof Falls", the power of Abul Mogard's dreams above all transcends sound, feeling, and physics in a truly remarkable way that evades words or concrete notation. (Lee)
Hugely RIYL: Alessandro Cortini, early Oneohtrix Point Never, Coil, Brian Eno.
Check out a track here.