Reviews of several music journalists

Always good to start on an upward curve with a spot of Vangelis-esque classicism, for Alexander Stordiau’s elegantly ethereal cinema-scoped ‘Fulfilling Eclipse’ ought to attract the ear of the Burning Witches posse as it manages to simultaneously stride the sound fractures that divide the disciplines of kosmische, cold war electronica and the whole Stranger Things community, beautifully ominous and longingly dream draped in a star glazing symphonic pristine. He features again much later in the track listing with the equally arresting ‘a shadow on the painting’ and into the bargain amid a deeply immersive head tripping mosaic cooks up something that we had to double check the credits to ensure it wasn’t cut by the hand of Biosphere. 

(The Sunday Experience)

https://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2017/12/16/the-invisible-divided-sea/

Supplying me during the year with a never-ending variety of disjointed alternative lo fi post-rock and maverick electronic music releases, Edinburgh’s inimitable Bearsuit Records has kept up their impressive momentum by sending me this latest compilation of the kooky, odd and curious: to be fair, some of the artists on this compilation are actually more conventionally brilliant, especially the opening undulated Vangelis voyager style waltz into the cosmos, Fulfilling Eclipse, a serene with moments of trepidation electronic strings traverse by the Brussels composer/producer Alexander Stordiau and one of the album’s most outstanding contributions.

Luscious, sweeping strings glide over a softly pulsating throb, and it’s all very cinematic, very John Williams on ‘Fulfilling Eclipse’, Alexander Stordiau’s contribution to this collection. No two ways about it, it’s a grand opening worthy of JG Thirlwell.

(Christopher Nosnibor)

https://auralaggravation.com/2017/11/19/various-artists-the-invisible-divided-sea/

The Invisible and Divided Sea’s varied artists establish the thematic flavor and include such expressive (and world-blanketing) performers as Alexander Stordiau (Belgium); Steeples for People (UK); PoProPo (Germany); Harold Nono (UK); Ullapul (France); Kirameki (Japan); Yponomeutaneko (France); Annie and the Station Orchestra (UK); Shinnosuke Sugata (Japan); The Moth Poets (UK); Petridisch (USA); Swords Reversed (UK); and Manga Brothers/Mangabros (UK).

(Michael Housel)

https://bizarrechats.blogspot.com/2017/12/bearsuit-records-presentsthe-invisible.html

This economic label sampler features 17 tracks from 16 international artists clocking in at one hour. In typical Bearsuit fashion, the artists and selections run an eclectic gamut from the “electro ambient trance fusion” of Belgian composer Alexander Stordiau’s contemplatively cinematic ‘Fulfilling Eclipse’, wonderfully reminiscent of Tangerine Dream’s soundtrack work.

(Jeff Penczak)

http://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2017/12/various-artists-invisible-divided-sea.html