Frozen Rabbit's debut CD represents sonic futurism at its most epic. 26,000 pits gradually unfolding analogue synth drones against monumental walls of reverb while flickering, ghostlike voices emerge from the ether. This is nocturnal psychedelia; simultaneously languid and intense.

Frozen Rabbit is a new project from renowned Vancouver musician and engineer Phil Western, in collaboration with Tim Hill. Western is best known as a member of Skinny Puppy and offshoot project Download - and the new project with Mark Spybey (Dead Voices On Air, Zoviet*France, Reformed Faction) called Beehatch. Western was also a full-time member of Off'n'Gone, Floatpoint and Plateau, and has worked with an excessively long number of artists.

Previous collaborations between Western and Hill have been rooted in dancefloor-ready techno. Here they drop the beats and focus on the darkly meditative, expansive potential of pure, resonant sound. This admirably adventurous new approach takes the style of the ambient disk from Western's solo CD World's End to a whole other level of ornate abstraction.

The artwork for the CD comes courtesy of renowned Vancouver artist Jim Cummins aka I, Braineater. Cummins has provided cover art for many a Vancouver punk rock album as well as a number of projects for Nettwerk.

   Packaging: CD in Jewel Case
   Release Date: 2005
   Running Time: 56:52

“26,000 is a record that changes slowly like tides eating away at limestone cliffs yet the intensity of its movement is ferocious.” - Igloo Magazine

“26,000 is the first full length CD under the Frozen Rabbit moniker and they have set a high benchmark for the Ambient music genre. Every track on this release is perfectly executed and expertly timed.” - SickAmongThePure

“26,000 is easily Western & Hill's finest and most accomplished work yet. A superlative effort and an engrossing trip. Fullest recommendations.” - Godsend Online

“26,000 goes light years away from the established dark ambient standards. Frozen Rabbit enlarges the ambient horizon joining new territories that still have to be explored! Something to discover!” - Side-Line

“Frozen Rabbit is a surprisingly warm and unshakably analog affair. These two seasoned gentlemen know their knobs and twiddle them in an undeniably likeable manner. It's nice to have them treating the cerebral to the same dedication they have the physical in the past.” - Ricardo Wang