kinoro shel rothschild - requiem dub

This album is the fourth full-length by kinoro shel rothschild, released by Miklatakiltim on CD-R and freely downloadable mp3 (the downloads section is here). It is beautiful and disturbing at the same time; works quite nice when listened in the background, but reveals its subtleties with close listening.
All the ten tracks are based on a repetitive, beautiful melody played on the piano, synths or guitar; around this core, some other melodies are arranged, blurred with dubby effects, which adds a certain ambientish quality to the record. And then come lots of everyday noises; sometimes they are distant soundscapes that withdraw to the backgroud, sometimes they are harscher and more "agressive", fighting for your attention. And the last ingredients are lots of speech-samples, sometimes looped or echoed, pitch-shifted, sometimes left untouched.
The whole record reminds me of the more ambient-styled Muslimgauze releases; except where the latter is blurred and hard to grasp, Rothschild's tracks have a more definite, focused character. Their emotional character shines through even the most chaotic moments: these are beautifully melancholic (almost-)songs.
My only problem is with the speech samples; though I really don't know anything about their political content (lacking all knowledge about "Israeli black panthers movement back at the 70's"), the musical "usage" of them is sometimes a bit to didactic to my ears; and pitch-shifting and other effects on the human voice are too easily fall to clichés, a trap Rothschild doesn't manage to avoid all the times.
But this is just a minor problem which doesn't prevent me from recommending this really nice release.