Organic, free-flowing, beautiful, Kobi's Dronesyndrome travels amongst meditative moods of calm, interweaving improvisatory dialogues with droning soundscapes. Like a carefully detailed relief map, the sounds glide gracefully over a varied landscape, creating intricate and compelling textures infused with the spontaneity of improvisation and the careful mixing of electronic and acoustic sound sources.

Mellowed synthetics and soft electronic loops create a backdrop for distant lines of guitar, percussion, and strings. The textures shift with enough movement to keep the music interesting, and despite the implication of "drone" in the title, the complexion of Dronesyndrome is actually quite varied.

As an electro-acoustic work, Kobi achieves a perfect balance of color and seamless intermingling of acoustic instruments, electronics, and natural sounds. The percussion and string instrument performances are of particular note . . . scraping, rummaging, pulsing; adding dimension and topography to the recording.

Inevitably the nature of Dronesyndrome is searching . . . unresolved. But the journey is one amongst many smaller moments of truth, satisfaction.