7 tracks. Running time 69:46 The spookily titled Shift to the Ghost is Jesse Sola's – aka Numina – third album on the Hypnos label. With a theme of "the life and death of the physical self" it's no surprise that Numina is continuing his exploration of dark and dense flowing soundworlds. The tracks are guide points on one long seamless journey rather than discrete pieces. In the first ten minutes named “Secret Souls” variously textured hard washes glide across the soundfield as if we're in the midst of souls being carried through the astral plane. Some tones have the deep and hollow texture of low notes on a cello. At first this is just drifting ambience but further in new sounds come in to form forlorn refrains as though souls of the recently departed are passing to another plane of being. Amid all the flowing and drifting sounds we encounter a rhythmic passage in “Through the Unseen Barrier”. Aquatic burbling and shimmering sonic strands lead into a forceful rhythmic sequence like the determined push to break through an amorphous barrier. In “Spiral Reminders” there's a kind of sedate rhythm kept by a deep hard edged effect which drops into the soundfield like a tolling bell or the ghostly call of a ship's horn. Meanwhile tinkling ribbons of sound and glissandos inhabit the backdrop along with eerie washes. While this album has a haunting quality, taking the listener on a journey to spectral realms (with influences of Klaus Schulze and Steve Roach here and there), occasional passages are more impressionistic than listenable. The swirling sounds “Arrival to Nowhere” though good at conjuring an images of a strange “no place” are a tad harsh on the ears. Fans of Numina's ambient work will find much familiar and little to disappoint in Shift to the Ghost. People who haven't heard any of his albums yet but are into dark ambient should check it out.