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Warm and cinematic instrumental music.Shadowy, with the texture of flourless chocolate cake, the quiet and spaciousnesss of late night.This album will interest you not at all, or beguile you for months on end.Try it on for size, since you're here
Genre:
Electronic: Down Tempo
Release Date:
1996
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Popular with yoga instructors, massage therapists, and all manner of creative people; those who value contemplation and welcome a listening experience that is at once calming and complex, much as drinking a fine wine ought to be.
Recalls Brian Eno, Oregon, Jai Uttal, and other inner explorers.
Often enjoyed late night, though some people laud it as their private Sunday morning "sacred music".
Indian accents, mostly acoustic instruments, and enigmatic compositions make for a rich and unusual listen.
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author: CD Baby
A delicious and rich, sometimes dark and brooding alternative to the stomach-turning twaddle touted as New Age.
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Part Eno, part Gorecki, all entrancing Ambient with a jazz pedigree.
author: Steve Torino
A record that really sneaks up on you. Naylor-Leyland's muscular and complex ambient offering starts out sleepily then suits up to explore a deeper, more artistic layer of the world beat ocean. It is as well suited for the soundtrack at a seance as it is for a contact improv dance class. It also happens to be perfect for listening with your eyes closed on a quiet day when you've decided to play hooky from reality.
Punctuated by rythmic interludes featuring dumbek and popping bass lines, the majority of these songs cruise along nicely on the ripples of overlapping texture provided by Nicholas' keyboard and guitar work. Track three, the bouyant "Eaves," contains an Oregon-like oboe solo that places this work firmly in the tradition of jazz travelers on the New Age tip, but manages to avoid the hippy sentimentality of many of that genre's practioners.
Brian Eno, the progenitor of all modern ambient music, is clearly payed homage to on the twenty minute finale "Underneath." The res
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