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About halfway through its journey, The feather cycle shifts from drifty sheens to more-ominous moods brought on by thumping waterdrums and whispery accents. Ephemeral tones stretch across rhythm-free The empty night like gauzey curtains riding on a celestial breeze.
The tranquil evening atmospheres and choral-like flows of
Nocturne are embellished with crickety textures and other faint animalistic essences, then light pseudotribal percussion.
Crystalline droplets lead into the darker zones of
Spatial Prophecy; brooding darkness swelters, sometimes illuminated by shining strands of spectral audiomotions and faraway spirit voices. The first CD closes on almost-12-minute-long Triangle of dawn, whose gaseous billows arise to change shape in ever-so-slow-motion. The track dissipates to a near-nothingness of swampy locational sounds.
Disc two plunges directly into the grumbling didge-clouds of
The spiritual bonding from which various vapors flow, eventually being adorned by methodical beats and shamanic touches. Long, multi-layered strands of silky synthsounds ride the gleaming breezes of Echoing Delight (15:03), spattered with thumping drumskins and clattery accouterments. Low poundings merge with chittery highs within the spectrally glimmering fabric of Fleeting space.
Grittier and more active, the synthstreams of Earth dangling (4:00) churn in a whorling tempest of didgeridoo and drum. Robert Rich spreads a hovering layer of slow flute notes across the chasmic expanse of From the Stepping Stone. Previously unreleased though assembled from Parallel Flaming's sessions, Lifting charm fills more than 12 minutes with pattering drumsounds sprinkled throughout gorgeously swelling tone-strata.
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