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once again Jesse Sola of Numina has perfectly captured the music of dreams and made it real. this time in collaboration with Ixohoxi, "Starfarer's Tales Volume 1" is a superb collection of long form ambient pieces that has been glued to my CD player since it's first play.

the mood is set beginning with the beautiful "Terraformers", where light percussion plays off a number of undulating drones, whirling, twirling, rising, and falling. the combination of beats and pads creates a hypnotic effect that draws you into the music, falling deeper and deeper under it's spell. "Orbiting the Holont" presents a slower more subtle piece, with floating pads playing underneath a bed of slowly evolving synth stabs and infrequent percussion. the feeling of lazy movement through space, the slow tug of gravity, it's beauty is undeniable.

track three "Shaman of Tahir" makes wonderful use of tribal drumming, giving movement to the piece, propelling it along to new places. i especially like the use of shaker in this one, it has some really tasty processing on it that makes it quite effective.

the fourth track, "Cloudland", closes out the disc with a breathy ascension of sweeping tones rising through the sky in a circular motion. truly breathtaking and inspiring, the only drawback to this piece being that it's the end of the disc.

rik - ping things