That's true, "New Clear Child" was nowhere near as intreresting as the first two albums, which is strange, given that a lot of the genres AR Kane foresaw (post-rock and trip-hop, to name but two) were hitting their apex at around that time. I did like the solo album Rudy Tambala released with his sister Margaret as Sufi, though. There's a great otherwise unreleased track by him called "Desert Flower" on the "Ambient IV : Isolationism" compilation (wish Virgin would re-issue that series - those anthologies will probably be worth silly amounts of cash in the next decade or so if they stay out of print).
Never saw them live, but a friend of mine who was also fan told me he'd watched them at ULU and that they didn't really gel onstage at all, so maybe it's for the best that there's no live stuff out there.
No idea what happened to Bark Psychosis either, they just seemed to disappear off the radar after "Hex". Good album, though.
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