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(c40) kevin lewis (fill spectrum / llanten) secret cove offerings
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"The Bodhisattva comes down from the mountain to lead all beings out of suffering; here are the forces he deals with. Frenetic whirlwinds of negative energy are conjured up with such force that my boombox seems to levitate, the lights in the room seem to dim, the temperature seems to drop so that I can nearly see my breath. These forces are transmuted into clear, peaceful light, not just once but several times in the course of the A-Side, thick thundering drones dissipating into peaceful washes of sweeping instrumentation, returning warmth, light and calm to their environment.
The B-side finds us retreating from civilization to restore our energies. A winding cave behind a waterfall with a guttering candle to guide the way. Malevolent spirits will seek us here, but perhaps we can lose them in the twisting passages." - Theosophical Society
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"It’s no small feat to capture the sounds of nature and synthetically transform them into something else. Its even more ambitious trying to make synthesized and organic worlds live simultaneously. Often times the two ideas stand at opposite ends of the spectrum, clashing and bouncing off one another but never truly coexisting. Many artists have tried to integrate the worlds, but success is certainly not guaranteed.
Not until this newest cassette from Wave Temples had i heard something so truly harmonious and uplifting that builds upon the unique organic and cyclical sounds of earth. Their Keys to the Inner Island tape projects a warm, soft, spectral blanket of sound that is thrown amidst flowing water and lush plant life. Twinkling, washed-out synths swirl and fade over fuzzy static and humid air. An ever-evolving palette of color slowly morphs and constructs itself with loose precision, providing an optimal relaxation experience. (..)" - Hunter P. Thompson / Tape Famous
"Pieces infused with heat and life, embodying tropical nature in misty textures and fluid composition. Clusters of atonal notes open like wide-petalled flowers; rushing waterfalls of drone pour out sparkling in the sun. If it’s winter in your soul, this music might melt the icicles off your beard." - Theosophical Society
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back to the future person of permanent nostalgia
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"...Each time I've listened to it I didn't notice as one side changes another and only after 5 or 7 auto-reverse knob clicks on my player I realized that melodies from this tape stuck in my head so successfully that there is no reason to listen it again. And same happened with each listening for last two months. Light, transparently weightless weavings of sound on this record are similar to shells on the sea shore - all beautiful, choose any. You start picking them up, to examine closely and an hour or two may pass, while sun lazily fries the beach and seagull looks around in search of something to steal... This music is so abstract, that it scatters by millions of flares at any attempt to focus on its details. Only the corner of your eye can see all ingenuous charm of its iridescence..." - Pied Paper
"Duo of Oliwa and Pandelindio members combined everything best form both projects and their debut album on the young label Rainbow Pyramid can be already added to the list of this years best releases. Wide-space drone ambiance, qualitatively stitched new age, mystically ritual atmosphere - all these components form just a skeleton of music of Puerta Del Sol. Real magic starts somewhere between all the above mentioned, seeping in our world like an astral fluid. Flowers are blooming with new colors, Sun warms especially softly despite the weather, birds are listening to the voices that emerge on the surface of the ocean of sound created by Puerta Del Sol (which translates as the "Gate of the Sun").
Using synthesizers and different bells, singing bowls and flutes this band creates improvised music, which sounds gracefully and smoothly, not interrupting the flight of imagination even for a moment, which starts from the very beginning of the tape. Marvelous creatures and rediscovered species of birds, beautiful plants and singing stones - all of this can be there, where we going with the dense flow of this music. Sun shining accumulates in the specially constructed temples and their doors are opened at night for those, who know the way to the foot of the mountains, where they are located. Clean air of autumn woods mixes up with songs of birds (or dryads?), creating subtle, translucent veil that envelops tree's branches and trunks. The closer the glow, the more blurred outline of images, arising therein, so only completely freeing your mind from the expectations you can become one with the song, which flows from the mountain slopes like creeks. Water of the sky and water of the earth are merging into the cycle of rain and dew, while light of the Sun and light of the human soul are swirling in the vortex of harmonious dance.
Music, of which draws intertwining wondrous in their beauty worlds brightened with psychedelic colors and impregnated with magic. There is usually one fate for utopian visions arising in the middle of technogenic madness of the modern world - to be a leisure time for interested in esoteric audience and enjoyable pastime for fans of ambient music. But after listening to this record would like to believe that one day things will change and magical beauty of this music will be whirling among the people, playing in their houses without need to hide in the thickets under the mushroom caps..." - Pied Paper
"I don't like such comparisons, but from the first listening to this tape I had thought that it sounds as if Sunhiilow and Uton united their best in one project. Magical melodies shimmering, shamanistic electronics, samples from old Hindu ragas, lo-fi sound of old synths - all this and many more you can find on the 14 tracks of this album. Sometime it sounds enchantingly primitive, sometime - very familiar, as if iridescent sounds moving under loudspeaker's fabric were extracted from your mind one minute before you heard them.
This album was released in one batch with wonderful Puerta del Sol debut and it one more time proves that man behind Rainbow Pyramid have great taste. This work shows good level of sound knowledge, at least in the field where no boundaries of experimentation. It depends only on musician's imagination - will the next loop whirling forward or erupts suddenly with the digital noise. Meditation changes to truly childish play with instruments, composition turns into cacophony. Yet, in the whole album remains consistent and solid in its atmosphere.Extraterrestrial signals, faddy faces of UFO-religion disciples, old movies about space and future of space exploration are melting in one big endlessly changing piece of plasticine. Images constructed not for examination, but for deconstruction. This is similar to the child that disassembles toy car - not to broke it, but to give it more functionality. For him every detail of this car turns into something else, something basically new. The same way this music falls infinitely into details, losing its intention somewhere in the middle of the path - closely to the end this record becomes self-isolated, even little bit melancholic. Necessary to be able to put together all toy parts so good, that there no extra details left. However, I think that Shadows of Vibrate will do that on the next releases which, I hope, will not take long in coming." - Pied Paper
