This is definitely a good work! An interesting album which combines "delusional" ambient elements with electro-pop atmosphere. Parallel Worlds have their own "notion" in electronic music. I suggest it for all those who are looking for something special. It will surprise you.

1. Lifecircles is a good start. It's dark, lively with nice bell sounds, mysterious effects. You inventiveness in the rhythm department is also admirable. There are enough twists and turns to make it exciting through out. Finally excellent arrangment. Great piece. 2. Musique Electronique Part 1. Combination of Kraftwerk and DM. Nice but not special. I don't know, meaby I have problems with the combination of strict Kraftwerkish drum beat and floating strings. 3. Musique Electronique Part 2. Much better, due to the strong floating melody? Nice those human esque voices. I like the DM-kind of effects after two minutes and certainly the dark slabs. Overall Good one. 4. Dreamstate. A real pearl. Very fantastical beginning. This reminds me of the music Maurice Jarre made for the Sci Fi movie Dreamscape. It fascinates through out. Everything in the right place. Sublime effects!!! 5. Borrowing time from God. Nice, but still a bit boring, too much repeat of the dark played notes. 6. Far away light. Now this is what I call a jewel!!! It shines in every respect. Strange melody lines capture effortlessly the attention and mood of the listener. Superb arrangment. Very emotional too, real surging this piece. 7. Soulgates. Damn! This is far too short!!! Could have been the beginning of a real grand opus. 8. Misty Journey. Dreamstate reprise. It develops real quick in an emotional burner! And then...yes, the best melodie of the whole album can be heard! This so good and yet can be heard so little! And o yes I like the those pure electronic effects near the end!!! 9. Expectations. If this could be and I only mean the atmosphere here of course could be a taste of your upcoming ambient album... This is without doubt my favourite track from the album. It stays so dark in atmosphere and soundwise fascinates like an ancient enigma. 10. Fading Memories. And is it then possible to go wrong with the closer? No, I don't think so. Even good old mellotron pops up and places this right halfway the 70s, well for a moment cause the base line and rhythm are more modern. I only think it doesn't hold the whole 16 minutes.

track 1 - Lifecircles very nice track, a great combination of elaborated idm style percussion arrangements and synthesized melodies. track 2 - Musique electronique part 1 kraftwerkish electro rhythms meet spacy downbeat grooves. recommended for spacenight-style parties and afterhours. track 3 - Musique electronique part 2 part 2 is darker, soundwise more intense and somewhat rougher, but not as floating as part 1. those soft strings on part 1 were replaced by a gated vocal-like pad sound, making the track even darker. track 4 - Dreamstate great track, a nicely floating arrangement full of bleepy percussive sounds and well selected tunes. one of my favorite tracks on this album. track 5 - Borrowing time from god a quite interesting track, which invites you with a 4/4 beat in the beginning, then opening a door to the other parallel world, where things are thought up in a different way. cool. track 6 - Far away light kind of a synthesized space ballad. very interesting sound design and arrangement. one of the most emotional tracks on this album. track 7 - Soulgates powerful analog sounds forming a big cinematic landscape. track 8 - Misty journey a very nice track, constantly progressing in intensity, showing off the whole beauty in the second half of the track. great sound design once again. track 9 - Expectations one of the heavier tracks, introducing a vocoded voice and an overall dark atmosphere. track 10 - Fading memories also a quite interesting track with a nice structure, but can hardly catch my full attention over the whole 16 minutes. anyway it is still a good track with a "cinematic" feel to it. "Far away light" is a very good album, fully recommended for lovers of dark and moody electronic music. somewhere between the lines of idm, ambient and classic em, it delights with a full set of interesting tunes beyond the boundaries of pure berlin school em.

Analogue music from Greece, composed by Bakis Siros. On Far Away Light he came up with some excellent sounds. A bubblebath of electronic textures gets "Lifecircles" underway. A mysterious theme makes its appearance, while bass lines and broken rhythms hover under. The track is very much in the IDM vein - a style I'm not too keen on as a whole, although Bakis' compositions do have certain bite to them that I found hugely appealing. Still, the mysterious aura is what I adored the most I think. Many changing themes that make up this track do not allow one to be bored. "Musique Electronique Part 1" starts with sharp rhythm, bass lines and once again mysterious motifs. This is some moody stuff. Excellent pads and soundcsapes on this one - music for your mind to travel to. "Part 2" has heavier rhythms and is more bizarre and in-yer-face. The textures are mutating in a strange kind of way, making this a very odd experience. The prevailing mood, as in previous tracks, is mystery, although this time with a threatening note in there as well. "Dreamstate" starts with abstract twittering and chirping sounds but several seconds into the track a mysterious theme starts that this time has an uplifting edge to it. Some clever bass lines are a highlight of this composition. All rhythms are strictly electronic and veer a bit towards Intelligent Techno territory. Other interesting things include some eerie theremin-like wails and an electric piano theme that appears as we are closing the 5 minute mark. "Borrowing Time From God" has a thumping bass rhythm and a deep bass line that make it a very techno-like number that still sports a high amount of tasty soundscapes and haunting melodic bits. This track I enjoyed the least so far. The title track heralds its coming with subtle humming but after a while a thumping laid-back bass rhythm starts, along with some strange textures. One thing to notice is the similarity of bass sounds on all tracks. In fact, bass lines sound more or less the same throughout. I guess this is something to work on for Bakis on future releases. I liked the darkish nature of this track and many of the sounds although overall it's a bit too repetitive and plodding. After the 4-minute mark it becomes more interesting with otherworldly soundscapes Bakis seems to be so good at. "Soulgates" starts with totally freaked out textures but the ubiquituous bass soon enters the stage along with some mysterious textures and... that's it. It's the shortest track on the album at just over 1 minute."Misty Journey" is uplifting with once again familiar bass arrangements and electronic rhythms. Some lovely sounds are on show here - I enjoyed this one. Some of the most melodic moments on the album are also to be found here. The track ends abruptly to give way to "Expectations" that is built around a heavy-handed rhythm and some strange processed voice samples. The closing number "Fading Memories" surprises with very deep atmospheres and even a Mellotron string sample in there as well. However, in the end it turns out to be another rhythmic number (not one purely atmospheric piece on the entire album, btw). The sequences on this track are pretty well-crafted albeit served in doses all too small. Overall, Far Away Light is certainly not for casual EM listener and stylistically is somewhere on the line that separates classic Electronic Music from Intelligent Techno, if there is such a line. Some of the tracks I found a tad too repetitive and lacking in variation. Moodwise it's pretty one-dimensional too, with mystery prevailing throughout that becomes a bit tiresome after a while. And, should I mention the all too samey bass and drum sounds? Oh well, you can't have it all I guess and Far Away Light still supplies you with a heavy dose of well-crafted analogue sounds and some tasty soundscapes that any EM fan will eat up anytime. I would recommend this album to fans of IDM-like electronica as well as those who like the output of FAX label.