released January 15, 2011

RECENZJE / REVIEWS (fragmenty / excerpts):

"The compositions are also something of a surreal dream, a fever dream perhaps, but I would not associate with sleep. Anyway you know how much a theta wave sounds or may resonate in your head? They bring a psychedelic mix of both peaceful and profound as cacophonus music, scary or just chilling thrilling."
Jan Willem Broek, Caleidoscoop Webzine (Holland)

"A splendid, truly splendid collaboration between US electroacoustic quartet PAS and Polish percussion duo HATI. The Stages of Sleep is a dream suite of drones, delicate rhythms and semi-melodic/semi-textural constructs that wonderfully blend abstraction and evocation. Charming and titillating."  
blog.monsieurdelire.com (France)

"P.H.A.S.T.I. is the outcome of the collaboration between P.A.S. and HATI. "Post Abortion Stress", also known as P.A.S., is an experimental improvise audio/video project from Brooklyn. We have already introduced them through their previous release "Pure Energy Output Sessions". HATI is Rafal Iwanski's and Rafal Kolacki's audiovisual project from Poland. Their music "...is based on sound of ethnic instruments from all over the world as well as hand-made instruments or found objects". As they shelf titled their music this is "...a link between a personal interest in modern improvised and acoustic music with ritual and meditation". Their release "The Stages of Sleep - A Metaphor for Torun" includes 9 tracks with total time more than 50 min, nicely presented in a delux CD packaging.
In this release P.H.A.S.T.I try to cooperate using the stages of sleep as inspiration. With such a concept in mind I would expect something close to hypnagogic and ambient music. What they propose through is an improvisation that incorporates the concept freely. Listening to it I understand the whole process as a structuralist event that is produced by merging well thought parts. The use of many and different percussion along with found objects creates a sonic pluralism that dominates the recording. The structure of the tracks is backed up by the use of the various synthesizers, the Theremins and the keyboards. This cd will not help you sleep; on the contrary the chemistry between the two bands will keep you alert."
M. Marios, Random Webzine (Greece)