This week's electroncia CDs reviewed

JIMMY BEHAN

The Echo Garden Audiobulb★★★★

The beauty is in the detail. Carlow-born Jimmy Behan has been producing pristine, emotional, intricate electro-acoustic music for a couple of years. Since his 2004 debut, Days Are What We Live In, he has taken a less-is-more approach to his sound palate. This process of refinement and streamlining, as well as the obvious influence of more minimal composers, has led Behan to The Echo Garden, a beautifully mannered series of barely-there shapes, shifts and shadows. It's quite clear from the way Behan manages and develops these micro-moods and flickering bursts of ambient soundscapes on tracks such as Clock for No Timethat he can do quite a lot with very little. Best of all, he has retained the warm, emotional heart and soul that stirred in the midst of his earlier work. www.myspace.com/ jimmybehan

Download tracks: Clock for No Time, Through the Trees