Split between longer immersive compositions and shorter glimpse-like sketches, these 12 tracks feature new juxtapositions of Pekler"s familiar palette of synthetic field recordings, warm, undulating electronic textures, shifting percussion patterns and serene melodies. New Environments & Rhythm Studies is a further attempt to re-describe past tropes which laid claims to authentically represent music and sound from beyond the Western world (exotica, ethnomusicology, field recording) as undertakings of the imaginary.[info sheet from distr.]