It's pretty clear that the people of Mille Plateaux are aware that this release by composer and movie director Thomas Köner, inspired by his frequent travels in the Arctic, is a proper masterpiece if they decided to re-re-release it, as they re-released it in 2004 yet (even if that re-issue on MillePlateauxMedia included a DVD with the visual part of the project, which gained a Tiger Club Award at the 34th International Film Festival in Rotterdam in 2005). Listeners have only to set the first bricks of their imaginary travel and think a little bit of the glacial context, as the rest of the journey will be masterfully led by Thomas's impressive recording, melting digitally processed field recordings, extremely low undertones, and awesome aural textures. Named after the capital of Greenland, "Nuuk" was originally part of "Driftworks", a 4CDs compilation released in 1997 by Big Cat, also including an album by Nijiumu, Paul Schütze, and the guessed collaboration by Pauline Oliveros and Randi Raine-Reusch, but according to many audiophiles, the quality of the Mille Plateaux edition of 2004 was remarkably higher. Such feedback could be given for this output as well, as the mastering managed to highlight the vivid rendering of not only the physical entities that your eyes could meet in the Arctic but also the freezing, the emotional annihilation, the cold embrace of Arctic desolation, and the step-wise ride to the declension of nothingness via sonic entities whose abstract concreteness a few artists in ambient-drone scene managed to reach (maybe a similar level of quality got reached by artists like Robert Rich or Brian Lustmord in those same years). Unmissable, if you missed it before.