Best known for his electronic deconstructions of traditional instrumental music, Montreal-based Mitchell Akiyama"s fourth and most ambitious solo recording is a sprawling work that bristles, burns and slouches with emotion. Small Explosions That Are Yours To Keep came into being at the twilight edges of composition and digital manipulation and sets billowing strings drifting around household gamelans while shimmering guitars drown in saxophone waves. Located somewhere in the interstices of classical, electronic composition and post-rock, his works vacillate between delicate melodies and confrontational bursts of noise. Sub Rosa/Belgium. 2005.