Available from Experimedia.net. Zomes is the solo work of Asa Osborne (Lungfish, The Pupils). Improvisations follows his album Earth Grid (Thrill 267, April 2011) and 2013-3012 - his recent collaboration with The Skull Defekts and Daniel Higgs (Thrill 12.48, Nov 2011)

Asa Osborne's solo guise, Zomes, is the penultimate exercise in the study of repetition and meditative repose. Simple melodic keyboard patterns overlay primitive drum loops. The repetitive quality is both remindful of much in the oriental music tradition as well as Osborne's guitar work in Lungfish. Patterns emerge and disintegrate, spaces expand and contract, all in a cyclic pattern that is by nature fixed and by design capable of transporting the listener to otherworldly states.

With Improvisations, Zomes second release for Thrill Jockey, the drum loops are replaced with a more obtuse drone bed pulsing not unlike a key on a harmonium that's been taped down. The continually changing tones create a warm sea of sound that acts as a canvas for his melodic improvisations. Tonal transmissions that phase in and out of a thick drone-filled ether, captured, translated, and expressed in Zomes own unique language of meditative bliss.

Improvisations was recorded to cassette tape and mastered by Roger Seibel at SAE Mastering. It is released on LP-only with an insert and free download coupon.