1* is a labyrinthine exploration of the outer limits of music, a lucid dreamscape of a fragmented yet uncannily familiar world. Darkly psychedelic, and uncanny in its unease, even elsewhere extreme, or drifting ambient and abstract, it is still all shot through with a stark beauty and a rare purposefulness: this is experimental music from a trained and skilled musician, having been informed by a wide practice of genres; a work crafted through meticulous editing, a beguilingly misshapen sculpture in sound, and the strangest movie for the ears imaginable. Aubele, known for his work with artists like Gavin Friday and Poppy Ackroyd, here presents a cryptic invitation into a dizzying contemplation of that most vast abyss between word and deed.