- Ambient
- Electronic
music
- Minimalism
- Epic
- Ambient drone
- Microtonal
- Field recording
- Organic electronica
- Dreamwave
- Musique concrète
Comment:
Austin, Texas, US-based musician, producer and a music label co-owner
Cory Allen's 5-notch outing is a tense blend of dreamy droning
incantations and beatific ambient plateaus. Despite his deliberately
austere concept he has much to deliver to us. "Satori" is
the Buddhist term for "awakening, comprehension, understanding".
Less is more which could be the slogan of this issue under the
marvellous Portuguese imprint Test Tube. To get awoken a human being
needs silence, as a part of the rest; given that there is almost no
places around where one could do it the artificial silence is
suitable for this purpose. It may be there exists no absolute silence
at all - it might be silence is an invisible conversation as once
sung Malcolm Mooney from CAN. These 30 minutes create an organized
calming padding for both an unnerving person and adventurous music
lover.
Journey to Bodhi can be considered an example of
contemporary New Age/Reiki music. As it is said his work focuses on
the manipulation of human perception with the intent of altering the
listener's state of consciousness. I am very convinced this outing
can be considered as a step for a person to move toward his/her
personal enlightenment.
