Rather colorful, diverse and also surprising split between two hardly known (for me) experimental musicians. I don't even know under what genre this tape should go. It's experimental, ambient, noise and who knows what, but it's not the terms that matter, but the fact that this evening the tape suits my ears very well. Sigulda is the project of activist who also owns rather obscure label Side of the Sun (which also released this tape). Somehow at first I thought that the stickers on the tape are mistaken. At least it seemed so by the sounds I was hearing and by the description I've read. But I can be wrong too. Sigulda's side of the tape starts with thick, noisy pitching down tones. That could be distorted bass guitar or something like that. These sounds slowly evolve into rather nasty pulsating wall of noise. Field recordings and feedback make their way through the wall and the track becomes pretty densely layered. Little by little noise calms down and scatters into weird autonomous experiments and enjoying of separate sound sources as opposed to the whole. Further more on this side of the tape, separate layers of noises are presented. Background noises, pulsations of noise generators or synths, field recordings etc. All in all rather decent experimental record. The other side of the tape - Sensible Nectar. From what I know, the guy from Rainbow Bridge label is responsible for this project. This side is dreamier, lighter and more interesting than the one of Sigulda. At least in the beginning. Soft manipulations of noises and field recordings flies through the space, opened by synth notes. Finally after nice and pensive start, noisier and more chaotic version of reality is presented. Ridiculous melodies, twisted wanderings in sounds or just joking around with equipment, lasting until the end of the tape. Well, the first side of Sensible Nectar gave far more listening pleasure than the second one, but all in all the impression is decent. The tape is absolutely not pretentious and just tries to be nothing and to say nothing. It exists just for its own purpose and I listened to it for several times just for the purpose to write this review and that's it.

Format: CS
Released: 2010
Label: Side of the Sun