On paper, Vladislav Delay's Anima is daunting. A single 62-minute-long track, originally released in 2001 on the German label Mille Plateaux, it takes its name from one of Carl Jung’s ideas about the unconscious, feminine self buried under mens' outward, socially enforced identity (the gender-inverted version is Animus). Performed live in several takes with a minimum of overdubbing and post-processing, the track correlates with Wolfgang Voigt's monumental ambient work as Gas (whose four albums were also originally released on Mille Plateaux and are being reissued by Kompakt this month).

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Anima (Version)