Edition of 350 copies LP on Graham Lambkin’s Kye imprint that presents the first readily-available material from Australia’s Astor: coming from Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Astor’s music has previously only been available via a series of barely-distributed CD-Rs, the best of which are compiled here. Astor make subtle use of processed field recordings, sounds of distant thunder, the crackle of handheld microphones, combined with spectral instrumentation, piano, electronics, so that it feels like a series of scored environments, blurring the lines between ‘playing’ and ‘sounding’ as beautifully as Alan Lamb’s work with the Faraway Wires. Also a weirdo ‘diaristic’ appeal to the way the sonics unfold that finds its best comparison in Christoph Heemann’s solo work like Days Of The Eclipse, Aftersolstice et al.