It’s now December, and the landscape outside is covered by a great thick white blanket accented by shadows of dying trees and silver ice with dripping frozen water to form small glaciers all over the pavement. My hands are dry and cracking yet the air is moist and full of fog blinding my far-sighted vision. It’s times like this when the earth is both beautiful and destructive all at once. The ice is dangerous and slippery, yet the white shadows of winter are breathtaking and stunning. At night, the moon shines down upon this desolate land creating a vast candle lit landscape of an earth frozen in time. And as I sit here listening to Time Frost by Rapoon, I become one with this earth. One with my surroundings, one with my frozen chaos that blows outside my window.

Each note from Time Frost that pours out of my speakers and drifts into my ears takes me away to a beautiful ambient landscape. Reminiscent of Biosphere's Substrata album, Time Frost encapsulates the sounds of winter and a frozen world in music. But there’s something different about Rapoon. It would be very easy to simply make a droning album of sounds in textures, throw in some blowing wind samples, name it Time Frost, and then it would be considered a “winter” album. Instead, Rapoon created a very versatile ambient album. There’s a little bit of everything ambient contained in this CD. The first track "Glacial Danube" is a very slow moving transcending soundscape similar to the styles of Stars of the Lid or even a bit more melodic reminiscent to Windy and Carl. By the time you've reached track four, "Horizon Discrete," the album has gotten much darker. This track is very pulsing and dark producing slow scratchy tones to develop a stunning soundscape similar to Kiln, or even somewhat Oren Ambarchi.

And then there’s the last track "Ice Whispers". This couldn’t be a better ending to  Time Frost . It contains all the diverse beauty on this album into one long 34 minute track. Don’t let the length scare. Simply get lost in it.  As I lay here in the dark with the shades wide open to let in the shimmering moonlight bouncing off the melting tea glass frosted on my windows, "Ice Whispers" takes me away into a serine lush world of white, silver, and dying green. All the colors and emotions of winter are spoken in Rapoon's Time Frost. All there are no vocals on the entire album, there are plenty of words spoken here within the tones and dripping textures of winter.

For fans of ethereal music that gets them lost in there surroundings, Time Frost is a great record to get. It’ll scare you and bring tears to your eyes all at once.

-Kevin Savo