This is not surprising, given that Steve Roach plays on and mixed Johnson's ambient journey, with the mastering help of Roger King. Five Sticks Burning smolders with Roach-esque shimmers laced with faintly organic rhythm accents. Sweeping high tones and bass burbles further adorn the track. Other drifts spread across Urban Inititaion , sparkling with tinkling ceramic shards and scattered percussion. The billowing cloud surface of Dawn Prey is scratched and texturized by metallic scrapes, clanks and intermittently drizzly ethnic effects, while distant flute passages trace the airwaves.
Accents occur in the form of twinkles, thumps, and occasional bass drones.
With undeniable beauty, powerful squalls and rumbling lows are contained within a rolling bank of soundclouds which shadow the sonic flatlands beneath. Equally amorphous and similarly free of percussive textures, Lighthouse in the Firmament emits electron beams which stream through a somewhat turbulent sky. Higher tones are buffeted by densely boiling atmospheres. Primitive beats and the clattering bones and stones form a rocky valley floor over which the synth tones of Badaraca soar, majestically welling up into skyward towers of sound, then receding into thinner mists. Biff Johnson 's ambient soundtreks closely parallel those of Steve Roach, and the two have blazed this particular trail together.