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Deep, grumbling bass-synth undertones undulate below the writhing shimmers and spoken shamanistic overtones which prattle about angry spirits throughout I-Sense's opener "Dallam". A dense soporific slur is enlivened by bass pulsations and shimmering synthstreams, though Foundland's "Born Basic" is soon overburdened by annoyingly New Age child's talk. Clanging with metallic percussion, "Beautiful Lady" by Tim Clement merges tribalized patter, soft tones and metaphysical storytelling.
Adeptly-rendered primitive rhythms pound and shake beneath hovering tonal swirls and feminine wails of Eleven Shadows' "Kombai"; mysteriously contorted accents infuse the soundstreams with unknowable activities as the piece locks into an 11.5-minute groove of wondrous ethereality.
Solo chant and multimedia voices are heard beneath Danna and Clement's electrosymphonic swells as "Sunrise West" rises into a warmly entrancing (though sometimes impenetrably thick) irridescence.
Worlds collide as Sanjiva stirs bloopily-flanged space-synths with chattering ethnodrums into a "Four Dimensional Interaction"
Surrounded by the buzzy drift of "Last Embrace", Akumu also merges spaciness with more down-to-Earth tempos as quiet female intonations speak of dreamlike occurences. In a mode which I'd label as particularly dreamy prog-rock, Richaed Wahnfried's entrancing musical saga "Druck" (18:33) unfolds on sparse guitar strands, wafting synthwaves and the emerging percussion of former-Santana drummer Michael Shrieve.
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