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Electronic musician Mark Nelson has been around the block enough to know how to create an album that's ostensibly ambient, but still eminently listenable and involving. Between his remix work for other artists, and his two previous recordings under the Pan American moniker, he's perfected an approach to electronics-based minimalism that incorporates a highly nuanced sense of both melody and rhythm, yet never disturbs the hypnotic flow on THE RIVER MADE NO SOUND. The opening cut "Plains" feels like someone just waking up from a hazy, surreal dream and slowly entering the waking world. On the ensuing cuts, subtle rhythmic elements are carefully introduced, and the sonic vistas are broadened until we reach the point on "Right of Return" where the listener is placed in a landscape evocative of a spiritual quest atop a windy, mist-covered mountaintop. The fact that this wide range of tones and emotions is achieved with such a relatively minimal instrumental arsenal makes Nelson's acheivement here all the more impressive.
Pan American: Mark Nelson (various instruments).
Alternative Press (June 2002, pp.82-84) - 8 out of 10 - "...PanAm has quickly developed a signature sound that speaks the ambient non-dialogue between the realms of analog and digital..."
Magnet (6-7/02, p.100) - "...Quite engaging..."
Mojo (Publisher) (8/02, p.110) - "...Consists entirely of cloud-like diaphanous sounds punctuated by reverberant meta-dub pulses and the odd artfully deployed field recording..." River Made No Sound Music Pan American River Made No Sound Songs River Made No Sound Review
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