Sceneries Not Songs, Volume One

Sceneries Not Songs, Volume One is Mr Fingers going ambient, the quietest record by house music's best melodist. Larry Heard set the dancefloor aside and built something spacious and contemplative, deep house dissolving into deep listening. It ranks at a hundred and twenty because it's a departure rather than a definitive statement, a great artist working in a minor key, but the melodic gift that made his house records special is fully present here, just slowed down.