"Though Scott Solter's <em>One River </em> isn't a  new recording—it was first released in 2005 on Tell-All Records—it's as  timeless a recording of ambient music as could be imagined—and  beautiful, too, I might add. Its title is well-chosen, as the recording  unfolds in an uninterrupted, thirty-four-minute flow, despite the  seven-track indexing of its presentation. What separates it from many  another ambient recording is its timbral character, and in particular  the steel guitar-like sound that Solter generates through the heavily  processed treatment of the electric guitar. Its flowing lines  reverberate so powerfully <em>One River </em> begins to sound as if it  was recorded in an immense cathedral setting. A mood of peaceful calm  characterizes the material, as if to suggest the lulling drift of a boat  as it floats downstream, propelled by nothing more than the movements  of the river itself.

Solter has built up an impressive CV as a  producer and for having worked with artists such as Spoon, Pattern is  Movement, Superchunk, Liam Singer, and St Vincent, but it's another side  of Solter that's showcased on <em>One River</em>, the one that finds  him acting as a member of both The Balustrade Ensemble and Boxharp, the  latter with Wendy Allen (whose manipulated voice briefly appears on <em>One River</em>). Though, as mentioned, <em>One River </em> plays without interruption, distinct shifts in character do assert  themselves as the material moves from one indexed track to the next.  Whereas “Tarn” inaugurates the journey with a becalmed ebb-and-flow of  delicate guitar shadings and soft bell percussion accents, “Antique  Brothers” brings the ethereal breath of Wendy Allen aboard; elsewhere,  cymbal shadings by Solter's other guest, Desmond Shea, amplify the  resonating character of “Cypress Road” before “The Palace Wedding”  closes the album on a ever-so-graceful note. <em>One River </em> is like  a single protracted sigh, a lyrical and and beautiful setting that  stands head and shoulders above the standard ambient recording."

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