Andi ChorleyAll Strange Beasts Of The Past by Thuja, released on Emperor Jones in 2002
Brandan Stosuy wrote for Pitchfork:
"Listening to Thuja, it's hard not to imagine a pantomiming circle of witches. Or warlocks, I guess. All Strange Beasts of the Past, the quartet's fourth album, is especially backwoods esoteric.."
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8052-all-strange-beasts-of-the-past/
Review by Ned Raggett
One of the entries in the Jewelled Antler Library series, All Strange Beasts of the Past balances between six shorter selections of improvisation and a lengthy concluding piece, all untitled. It shows the Thuja collective in good creative health, here focusing on calmer, quieter numbers in general, though hardly lacking in the mysterious, almost antique feeling that pervades their work at its best...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yTlJV9tKHE&list=PLpj-LsviZeqzMw9gj4yMEEwFtexW2cShl&index=6
Ned Raggett