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diatonis : The Endless Knot
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Semi-progressive ceremonial rock with a twist of ambient-drone and Gamelan.
Genre: Rock: Experimental Rock
Release Date: 2000
The Endless Knot
diatonis
Record Label: diatonis
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1. Klab Cros Templi 6:39 + MP3 $0.99
2. Offering 9:36 + MP3 $0.99
3. Unlock The World 9:39 + MP3 $0.99
4. Meditation 9:43 + MP3 $0.99
5. The Endless Knot 8:13 + MP3 $0.99
6. Eight Thousand Verses 13:44 + MP3 $0.99
7. Turning Tide 6:20 + MP3 $0.99
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Album Notes

Sometimes called the Knot of Eternity, it is an ancient symbol representing the interweaving of the Spiritual Path, the flowing of Time and Movement within That Which is Eternal. All existence, it says, is bound by time and change, yet ultimately rests serenely within the Divine, the Eternal, Buddha, the Mind of God.

The Endless Knot is both a dark ambient and semi-progressive album combined. It's rather dark ambient with some heavy hitting and mildly progressive rock twists. The album fuses Indonesian Gamelan with powerful electric bass and acoustic drums (Hear songs, "Klab Cros Templi" and, "The Endless Knot"). Metal plates were used as the Gamelan. With the added hand drums, flutes, prayer bells, bass, and keyboard samples, some very original music has been created (Hear songs "Unlock the World", and "Eight Thousand Verses"). There was very little MIDI and no guitar used in the album.

There are three dark ambient pieces (Hear songs "Offering", "Meditation", and "Turning Tide"), which have a very organic sound to them. Some of the other instruments are Tibetan and Pan Flutes, Doumbek, Bodhran, Chinese Wind Gongs, and Tibetan Bowls. It's great for hiking with a Walkman.

This album is my first CD, though I've been creating music since 1976. I was 16 then and very into John Bonham. I thought of him while playing "Klab Cros Templi". There's some Bill Bruford there in "The Endless Knot" as well.

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REVIEWS

Original, a non-saccharine spiritual mood
author: Ingrid Gilbert
                            
Diatonis explores a lot of different sounds but this album is my favorite. Original use of instruments, lots of accoustic sounds, percussion. A non-saccharine spiritual mood.
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author: Tamara Turner, CD Baby.com
                            
I think it was the Gamelan rock that got me- the creativity of using metallophones with rock percussion and grooves, laced with spacey, eerie and expansive reverberations. But every track on this album is a new, hypnotic experience, a vivid collage of ambiently brooding, visionary, experimental electronics with ceremonial-colored, world music seeds and atmospheric narcotics for the imagination. A dark, mysterious abyss in which the mind can lose itself.
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author: CD Baby
                            
I think it was the Gamelan rock that got me- the creativity of using metallophones with rock percussion and grooves, laced with spacey, eerie and expansive reverberations. But every track on this album is a new, hypnotic experience, a vivid collage of ambiently brooding, visionary, experimental electronics with ceremonial-colored, world music seeds and atmospheric narcotics for the imagination. A dark, mysterious abyss in which the mind can lose itself.
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Excellent! Unique and very interesting!!
author: Clayton Johansen
                            
The Endless Knot is one of those albums that either you get it or you don't. I get this one. I love the melodic metal bell sound along side the thunderous bass and drums. It's also has a world ethic ambient feel on a few songs which is a breath of fresh air. It does remind me of King Crimson but it isn't King Crimson. I really like it!
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