The concept this time around is an aural exploration of the title city, which served as the capital of the Southeast Asian Khmer empire for more than half a millennium beginning around the ninth century A.D. Yet this seven-track-long journey -- which, like Voyage, was made with the assistance of electro-cult figure Steve Roach -- is more than a mere travelogue. "Outside the Temperate Zone" represents a dark, droning plunge into the eternal, whereas "Echoes of Angkor" uses staccato synthetics and eerie washes to conjure the sensation of a past world brought back to ghostly life.
What a trip.
