'Seed Solar' is Vresnit's 6th album on the Vetvie label and he gets a little help from Kshatriy, Hladna and Neznamo on this one. If you're familiar at all with Vresnit, you sort of know what to expect, but every Vetvie release I've come across has been a little different in subtle and sometimes not so subtle ways. 'Seed Solar' is four tracks ranging from a little over 8 minutes to a little over 24 minutes in length. "Preobrazhenie" begins with chirping birds and ominous drones in the background. A ways into the piece things evolve when a very basic tapping rhythm emerges along with bursts of white noise and other sonic elements that include some brief spoken word (Russian) and electronic squiggles. That's pretty much the piece.

"Zerno Sfera," the aforementioned 24 minute track, begins with a repeated (radio?) sample of some innocuous Russian music accompanied by a spoken phrase repeated in Russian. Tinkling windchimes (singing bowls really), drones and hallucinatory echoed electronic elements emerge growing in intensity and take over the piece fairly forcefully. Then out of nowhere there is a female voice singing some traditional Russian folk melody, an odd soothing contrast to the psychical storm of the swelling, ringing drones. This too morphs into something huge and unworldly and gradually subsides into an atmosphere cosmic and primeval, unfathomable in its evolution. It is as if you were witnessing the genesis of a newly formed planet sped up. Great and terrifying things happen within this opus and it is only limited by your imagination. There is an elongated 'come down' to the end somewhat mirroring the psychedelic experience too.

"Veda-Tanec" employs a simple looped rhythm that sounds a bit industrial, like an alien assembly line. More drones of both higher and lower frequencies are added and the higher timbres become flutey along with windchime like tinkling. After a long while the rhythmic loop fades, then the drones, leaving the tinkling sounds and flutes. The tinkling remains to the end after the flutes depart. That's it for this one.

Closing the album is "Zashitnyj Svet", a collaboration with Kshatriy that takes ambient noise to a new level. There is an ineffable vastness here that defies description, and yet there are slow moving modulated tones in the background that resemble some kind interstellar music. All too quickly it ends, at 8:10, the shortest piece on the album.
This kind of soundscape is assuredly not for everyone, but for those who can't get enough deep space in their ambient music, 'Seed Solar' is definitely for you. As usual, the disc comes in a provocative six-panel cover designed by Vresnit (Ilchuk Sergey) the guy responsible for making this all happen.