In a rush, a blur, with ambient vapors swirling round it
setting the stage, Chris Bathgate's Dizzy Seas has arrived,
the product of years of exploration, travel, searching,
daydreaming. Dizzy Seas is Bathgate's fourth full-length
album; a brilliant collection of recordings that collage
together to make a whole, not in a seamless way, but almost
like a photo album that has been edited to force you, the
listener, to put yourself into the story, to add to that
narrative. The music itself is borne of daydreams, and
invites you to join in, with the album having left a door
unlocked for you to enter by Bathgate's inimitable skill in, as
NPR puts it, "the art of distilling alienation into
bruised-sounding beauty."