Soft Ash

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Release Date: 1997

Label: Dorobo

Released in clear tray jewel case with 4-page booklet.

The White Death Part 1 (Meuse Valley, Belgium 1930)
MIC (Bhopal, India 1984)
The Plague Wind (London 1871)
Chernobyl (Former USSR April 26 1986)
The White Death Part 2 (Meuse Valley, Belgium 1930)
Fragments (Monnongahela Rice Valley, USA October 25-31 1948)

An aural treatment of six different fatal gaseous clouds, most of which being mostly composed of sulphur dioxide.
Historical reports taken from Dr Kurt Paterson's "Ventilation, Stagnation, Inversions and Case Histories" Lecture (Michigan Technological University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering).
Track 1 courtesy CCI, Japan. Originally composed for Ryoji Ikeda's "Statics" compilation, 1995.
Tracks 2 - 4 appear courtesy of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Originally commissioned by "The Listening Room", October, 1996.

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