Four long pieces here of electro-zither prog. You heard me! When I think zither, I think The Third Man soundtrack, the eerie screech draping a menacing and menaced European cityscape. That?s not what you get here though. You get Boston-based Core Redonett?s zithertronics, which he?s apparently honed playing for the Blue Man Group. In Sky Saw, he whips out propulsive psychedelic jams that work best when, as in the early minutes of ?Misshapen Masses,? the majority of the sounds are analog and not overly overdubbed. That creates space for guest Jonathan LeMaster?s violin to arc in over the surprisingly broad range of sounds Redonett coaxes from his zither, and together to explore vaguely Middle Eastern tonalities appealingly. What works less well are the machine-supplied beats, which on ?Infinite Dave? begin with an adenoidal plop, although the swooping violin later overwhelms theim anyway. There?s a lot of fading and returning, a lot of rushing in and pulling back. In its more frenetic moments, it?s gets a little close to an action movie soundtrack, but when it?s more restrained it recalls the dreamy-yet-churning reflective spirit of, say, SubArachnoid Space or LeMaster?s better-known partners in Cul de Sac. Don?t go in expecting catchy tunecraft, but if you?re up for a journey to the center of some wild string jams (and some effects pedals), there are some interesting textures to be found. 6/10 -- Sal Addays (8 June, 2005)