Omns

The second long player from Lichens, like his first, the largely improvised The Psychic Nature of Being, is an ascent to a higher plane. Rob Lowe's sound recordings are of a distinctly personal nature, works turned inward as much as they are projected outward.This new album was conceived with the idea of it being a continuation of the first, while using slightly different techniques in recording and editing; from multitracking individual passes, and pulling single tracks in and out of the mix ('vevor of agassou' 'faeries'), to opening up into a completely different process by overdubbing multiple tracks ('m st r ng w tchcr ft l v ng n sp r t'). All this while remaining firmly within the realm of improvisation, augmented with the use of skeletal frameworks.