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While all four members contribute synthsounds,
Tony Gerber adds guitars and vocals; Giles Reaves, percussion and processing; John Rose, Flute and vocals; and Diane Timmons flute and vocals. This disc was recorded live during Unityfest 2000 while over 150 listeners practiced meditation and yoga.
Soft guitar ramblings merge with ever-expanding synthstrata (which often seem to contribute a deep, extended "om", as well as lightly sweeping breezes). These drifts are accented by bells and eventually a sinuous solo male chant, and the sparse, atmospheric activities of crackling thunder. In wisps and tweedles, flutes sometimes seep into the slowly stirring musical murk, not unlike ethno-organic works by Robert Rich for instance.
Faint percussion dapples a glowing sonic ridge upon which swaying synth filaments sprout and light guitarstring patterns emerge. Dancing in lush slow-motion movements as chimes sparkle, piano passages enter the scene, then recede as feminine croons rise and fall over a faraway thrum. Bassy energies bubble up here and there, then gradually increasing elements form a boiling cloud around which wordless male and female vocals wander, and electric guitar strands weave. Lighter-than-air ribbons of synthesized sound rise in the final moments, flitting over interlocking musical motifs, all of which dissolves into a wistful silence.
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