Mind boggling ambient and new age sounds that are weaved together with gestures too human for the human experience and too organic for nature itself.

Where do begin with this one…

I recall the first listen of this and being absolutely stunned by the glimmering synths on the the Garden of Paradise. Never before have I heard such organic and cosmic sounds radiating and glowing in the way that they do on this track! After a few more listens and the sounds struck me even more, making me feel as my consciousness was levitating above my body while I listened with my eyes closed.

It’s that beautiful.

Meanwhile, in between the push and pulls of the ever expanding glimmering synth of heaven weaves a dreamy, distant guitar in a perfect dialogue, always knowing when to talk and knowing when to not.

The deeper hypnosis of The Garden of Paradise is knowing how to repeat gestures with out them sounding old and instead making them sound, with each repetition, more new and less understood. The organic permutations of soundscape and synthesis, I believe, highlighting the magic of the sound and not the sound itself leaving your ears endlessly stunned in curiosity and awe.

The second track Four Ever Rainbow begins with the hit of soft bell and may as well be one of the most pleasurable bells I have ever heard. In a way affirming everything you have just heard and guiding the shift of mood and gesture.

It’s a god damn good bell.

Like Garden of Paradise, Four Ever Rainbow grows organically with a sense of shimmer but at more subdued and unassertive way. At its own pace, in movement with the sounds around it, with out a care if it really ends up getting anywhere (which it doesn’t really). And dissolves into one of the background synths that sounds like a voice too melancholy for a human to have possibly sung.

The melancholy globs together like puddles forming other puddles during a light rain. Dissolving barriers through creating new ones. Eventually condensing, through the soil, and giving life to new plants.

Listen here!

“In this 1969 classic, organs, keyboards and percussion flutter and dance in a delightful consonance with a magical pre-ambient innocence then fall asleep – meditatively – like birds after a long flight”

The magic of this recording is its flow and the magical innocence and simplicity of its thematic story. The title track, A Rainbow In Curved Air, starts off with a swirl of organs, keyboards, harpsichords and percussion that dance in a joyful consonance with frequencies that equally delight the mind and the ear. These rhythms, melodies and phases swiftly swerve, swirl and pan in between each other while gradually building pace and lovely spatial movement through periods of slight decay. These sounds are equally at home sounding like computer data or the layered harmony of different bird singing in a rainforest.

If the title track was 18 minutes of pure flight, of sonic migration then the second and final track Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band is the pure rest after the journey. Immediately the music take the form of a much more airy and less dynamic soundscape. A soundscape in which movements form through subtraction instead of addition. However the tone remain just shifted. As it progresses it further decompresses into deeper drone territory before bombarding into cacophony of goose like rhythmic squeaks that become mysteriously hypnotic and soothing.