Limited to 500 copies on ultra clear vinyl. French electroacoustic composer Bérangère Maximin has built a remarkable body of work over the past two decades, music that draws equally on the French musique concrète tradition and more contemporary approaches to electronic sound. Komora - the title refers to a chamber or enclosed space - finds Maximin working at the height of her powers, crafting sonic environments of extraordinary detail and emotional resonance. Her approach to composition is architectural, building structures from carefully placed sounds that create a sense of inhabiting actual spaces, however imaginary those spaces might be.

There is a tactile quality to Maximin's work that sets it apart from more purely abstract electronic music; you can almost feel the textures, the surfaces, the air moving through these sonic chambers. She has collaborated extensively with other artists - Elliott Sharp, Fred Frith, Ikue Mori - but her solo work represents perhaps the purest expression of her unique sonic vision. Komora rewards close listening with headphones, the subtle details and spatial placements revealing themselves gradually over multiple encounters. This is music that exists in its own world, following its own logic, yet somehow manages to feel emotionally communicative in ways that much experimental electronic music does not.

 Maximin is a major figure in contemporary French experimental music, and Komora stands as one of her finest achievements to date.