Nepenthe Music & Publishing Artist: Dwight Ashley Release Date: September 19, 2006 Genre: Post-Industrial, Neo-Expressionist Track Count: 11 Running Time: 68 minutes Catalog No.: AMC05009 The liner notes of Ataxia provide the preceding definition of the album's title - and by extension, a glimpse into composer Dwight Ashley's own experience of the exotic nether-world he creates through the course of these 12 remarkable tracks. Lack of coordination is conspicuously NOT an issue in Ataxia's carefully constructed compositions. Rather, Ashley skillfully weaves alluring post-industrial textures and atmospheres characteristic of his debut solo work, Discrete Carbon, into a gorgeous sonic dramatization of a time and place given over to uncertainty and unsteadiness on an epic scale. Ashley further stakes his claim in neo-expressionist territory with Ataxia's prescient interpretation of the current zeitgeist. While he avows in his liner notes that a number of tracks were post-Katrina expressions of his own feelings about the devastation of his "second city" of New Orleans, the entirety of Ataxia conveys the sense of surface well-being that slowly crumbles into a cataclysmic upheaval from which there is no return. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.