2005 release ** Hand-numbered edition of 300 copies. "Territorium will not play the game of a hermetic work and will immediately reveal the topography of its ambitions: to draw an incomplete and fragmentary map of field recording and ambient music. By bringing together five artists and six compositions. A doubly geographical project, since while the album as a whole reveals a committed geography of the genre, each piece is the anomalous and reconstructed geography of a place, a type of terrain, a city, a climate. Richard Garet records in South America, in the streets and subway of NYC before editing everything in his studio. Jos Smolders prefers to capture the intensity of the wind, as if the music could disappear before the breeze while allowing a few stray bell sounds, a few mischievous fragments, to persist, while Dale Loyd embeds tiny elements captured outdoors into a vast electronic texture that evolves organically, both on the surface and in depth. Four artists with different practices, but positioned within a common perspective, which is also that of field recording today: poeticizing space rather than documenting it (the key word of the genre, in a way), revealing the genius of the place. A praise of arrhythmia, Territorium is the record of the great white deserts: located nowhere, creating its own sense of place and time through the music, the six compositions, less connected than merged, redesign a world from which tumult has been removed. Field recording becomes less an opening to the outside world than a way, for each of the composers, to return to themselves by listening to the world. Hence the great beauty of the result, meditative and full of a sovereign confidence in their options. Highly recommended."