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Review fromThe Sound Projector, Music Magazine And Radio ShowWritten by Ed PinsentGot a package from E. Lago from his Italian address. Though drummer for the band Ermeneuma, he also goes under a large number of solo aliases to realise dark ambient music in varying strengths and modes, including Tombstone, Immortal Agony, and Black Mountain Chronicles – the latter of which is reserved for sounds of very deep atmosphere, horror, and gothic fantasy. (I’d liken him to fellow Italian Pietro Riparbelli, who has recorded as Tele S. Therion and K11, and is likewise a highly atmospheric and esoteric droner.) Lago’s been active in these areas since the 1990s, but a more recent alias is Lost Fairy Realm. The intention here is to move away from noise and darkness, and present a more ambiguous, quasi-romantic soundscape, and on Lost Fairy Realm he does indeed succeed in creating a series of very understated tableaux, which touch on the enchanted and magical spirits they are clearly aiming to invoke. With titles such as ‘Soap-Seller Fairy’ and ‘Magical Wood’, you might be forgiven for thinking this album will be some kitschy sub-Arthur Rackham fantasy populated with fey creatures not unlike the photographs of the Cottinsgley Fairies. But Lago studiously avoids any such cliché, and for the most part summons a quite unearthly and fleeting sensation in these fragile, wispy washes of sound. No tracks outstay their welcome, and each one presents a compelling snapshot of the faerie kingdom. It’s amazing the King of Elfland allowed him to return with his collected evidence intact.