The tracks you can hear on this cd have been commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation and by the Deutschand-Radio-Berlin, this recordings have been unavailable until now. The essence of these two tracks is mainly based on concrete sounds that remind of an audio documentary. You can bet that this two pieces can get along pretty well with images, they create images themselves, therefore don\'t be surprised if looking at the curriculum of mrs. Hartman you'll discover she\'s worked to other commissioned music before (she\'s won some awards too). For who\'s into installations and contemporary art another interesting thing is represented by the fact this \"sound engineer(?!?)\" should have \"exposed\" a sound installation at the Goteborg Art Sound festival. Differently from many concrete musicians and above all differently from many releases on great label like Creative Sources or Metamkine, the audio-result is really close to a field recording, I mean the sounds move quietly inside the \"amped landscape\". As I\'ve just said no sound source breaks in a violent way, everything has its \"biological\" evolution here, if such a caracheristic element is typical of music created to relax the eventual listener, well, this is the case. While \"Longitude\" speaks the language of sailing boats mixed with many sounds from the ocean, \"Cratere\" brings you on the top of italian volcano Etna (Sicily). The last track has the rare quality to recreate the real power of volcanoes and the scary sensation that the earth that you walk upon is alive and not always \"that friendly\". Althugh after what I\'ve just wrote may sound contradictory, this release is both soft and above all relaxing.
