"Lightness" is only $10.00CAN plus taxes and mailing costs!

James Johnson's "Lightness" release continues along the same exploratory paths of his earlier disc "Environment 1". A single piece spanning almost 30 minutes, "Lightness" uses a combination of pads and waveforms combined with more organic string instrumentation to create a beautiful example of the atmospheric ambient genre. Pads travel through the soundfield in slow arcs, ebbing and flowing like the drift of tides. A mournful cello passes throughout the piece playing notes that fall like tears from hooded eyes. Sparse piano plays at intermittant points, a sound of hope, of brighter tommorows. It's all so beautiful, so perfect, so natural.

James Johnson's work has been recognized as among the best in the genre, and with "Lightness" he reminds us that recognition is well deserved. Essential...

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