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With the release of "The Endless Vista", Eric Hopper of Sylken continueus the exploration of stars and space that has defined so much of his earlier work. With the help of collaborator Robert Carty, Hopper has crafted a deep space soundtrack for floating weightlessly through the cosmos, a work that stands with previous Sylken discs as true treasures in the pantheon of ambient music.

Title track "The Endless Vista" is a spacey trip, the two artists fitting in with eachother brilliantly. Tones pulse and stream, melody and drone work hand in hand to create something wonderful and beautiful that circles around a star, majestic and large in tone.

"Deep Distance" follows, a slightly more contained piece in terms of sound, high pitched pings and keyboard stabs, and sweeping tones like glittering stars adrift in the wash of space. Tones float around eachother, shifting and moving through time, pads like gasses and steam. Beautiful.

"Desire of the Ages" twinkles and pulses, rich and deep with tone, pushing and pulling like the sound of gravity and the tides. A slow melody plays overtop, beautiful and mournful and all together lovely. The sounds of time passing, and passing time.

"Of Space and Time" rings and chimes with bells and tones, a beautiful piece where vocal like pads sing the songs of celestial bodies and riding the spaceways. Gurgling noises lie beneath the track, swelling up and circling the song. I don't know enough about astronomy to know what the gurgling noises are, but I know that I like them, so that's cool.

"Silent Splendours" pulls and pushes like tides, sparkling, twinkling like stars. It's a beautiful piece, something celestial and elegant.

"The Shores of Forever" closes the disc, shimmering, gentle bells, lovely playing over a deep rich pad. Sparse melodies and phrases play and tracks drone. It's a lovely thing, something rich and full of sound and beauty. Something full of stars...

Eric and Robert prove themselves to be excellent tourguides on our journey in space, "The Endless Vista" a fabulous roadmap to lead us through the most interesting and appealing areas of the cosmos. I look forward to repeated listenings and opportunities to delve deeper into the wonders of this disc, and I also hope that we haven't heard the last from this very impressive pairing of talents.

rik - ping things