Reviewed by James Attlee

So you want left-field, we got left-field. Secret Archives are Vince Millett and his Roland guitar-synth, plus a load of esoteric influences. Vince is into Nepalese, Indian, Middle-Eastern, medieval and Traditional music; in his bedroom studio worlds collide and strange mutant music- forms are hatched. This is the second volume of instrumental Archives to be released, and an entertaining selection it is too. The only non-Millett compositions are a radical re-visit of the traditional tune "She Moves Through The Fair" called "Hall Of Stallions", and a 21st Century version of the medieval tune "Nostra Phalans". For the rest we wander through the back reaches of Vince's mind, on tracks with names like "Fair White Swan/There Is A Garden In Her Face", and "I Will Forget You In The Thirteenth Moon". Oriental pipes tootle eerily over electronic rhythms; bells chime and the studio is suddenly invaded by birdsong. One track tends to blend into another, but that's no criticism in this genre. Excellent driving music if you don't mind missing your motorway intersec­tion and arriving somewhere you never planned to go. File under New Age and give your Evangeli­cal friends the heebie-geebies!

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