The extended A-side ‘Zzzz’ is a somnolent ambient beauty initially composed as healing music for a sick friend. It’s a meditative tract of glacially rising drones glistening with gently struck, gamelan-like percussions and smoothed out with fluid textures to sublime appeal. We can only imagine Nobu’s mate felt a bit better after hearing this piece.
On the B-side he retains that meditative appeal, but driven by powerful, minimalist techno rhythms in the sulky shimmy of ‘Wwww’, and then like a brisk Gas piece in ‘Cccc’, like Wolfgang Voigt wandered too deep into the Black Forest and is panicking to find his way out as the forest spirits come out to frolic.
