Parks was Igor Bystrov from St. Petersburg, Russia. He created music beginning in 1990 as ‘Project Parks’, releasing seven titles until now, of which “Umber” (2001) is relatively well-known since it has been re-released by Infraction Records in 2007.

“[hidden]” shows all signs of becoming an ambient classic. That is, if it can become wider known of course.

Bystrow is not only building his atmospheres from layered sounds, but adds some very strong melodies to them, and some sparse rhythms to complete the ‘ambient pop’ feel.

With the exceptions of September.Koivisto (5’54”), all tracks on [hidden] are between 8 – 10 minutes long, and take their time to develop.
The ‘pop ambient’ feel is even stronger on the three tracks containing vocals (apparently female, but since there’s no reference to the singer in the liner notes I would not be very surprised if it turned out to be Igor’s own voice somewhat manipulated). 

With its dreamy atmosphere, [hidden] clearly succeeds in catching some of this silence, especially in the concluding track, entitled “Perfect Silence”.  - ambientblog.net