Album Notes

Deep Imagination is Thorsten Sudler-Mainz and Thorsten Rentsch’s Art of Infinity musical harmonizes. If Art of Infinity offers a spacey ambient music, with a more progressive approach, Deep Imagination is more electronic, while preserving this prog art which dissociates the German duet from the conventional path of EM. This 2nd opus, Gemstones, proposes a collection of tracks recorded live and remixes of the 1st CD, Scapes (released in 2005), thus 2 new tracks (Planetary System and Gemstones) which shows the interconnection between Sudler-Mainz and Rentsch’s musical projects.
A heavy reverberation splits up in sequences electronic pulsations, initiating an echotic tempo with fine syncopate jolts. Behind a variegated and very electronic structure, Planetary System succeed to release a wandering melodious approach in a zombiesque cosmos, coat of a synth to crystalline keys which curves harmoniously a dark and lethal universe. With Sunscape we plunge in the gliding universe of Scapes. The movement floats on low pulsations and a drift synth which wraps us of a vaporous atmosphere. Flirting with a psychedelic era, the musical prisms scintillate on random percussions. Colourscape offers a nervous sequential rhythm which deviates on a more ventilate structure, even funky, before concluding on a more ambient phase, where synth drifting waves cross a solitary saxophone with ethereal breaths. This soft romantic mood continues with the superb Mountainscape. A dense and enveloping track, which waltz delicately on a harmonious synth which howsl over chords of a melancholic sensitivity. This is great poignant space music whose nostalgic breaths soak in an atmosphere very close to Pink Floyd on Wish you Where Here, just like Moonscape and Mindscape. Quite simply beautiful.
The introduction of New Horizon offers this same structure, except that the title becomes vigorous in the 2nd portion with fine echotic pulsations and good percussions which hammer a sensual tempo. Gemstones starts under a heavy electronic cawing whose reverberations die in a cavernous environment. Sequences pulsations propel this strange underground world with stalactites sonorities. Hypnotic beat, without harmony, which modifies its tuneful approach with the arrival of the 2nd part. Flexible choirs, sequences fluid and more limpid gird of a circular synth and a lonely saxophone. We are swimming in the harmoniously cold world of Robert Schroëder. The 3rd part moderates its gradually lilting approach in order to slide in an ambient sphere, where everything converges towards a heteroclite and atonic universe on vaporous and mysterious mellotron synths.
I have to admit that Gemstones is not an easy opus. It is a progressive work which requires some listenings and each one arise a formerly misunderstood passage; sign of an album which teem of agreeable surprises. A fine album of progressive EM, where melodies enchant the nebulous atmospheres. Gemstones also comes with a short 20 minutes code free bonus DVD, presenting a superb animate psychedelic life version of Planetary System and an extract of the group in concert (Colourscape and Mountainscape) at Satzvey Castle in 2005.