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Alio Die

& Mathias Grassow: Expanding Horizon (2-CD)

2003 | Release / Relapse | REL65782

2-CD

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Grassow, Mathias
& Thomas Weiss: Conscience

Tracks:

DISC 1:
1. Enchanted Land
2. Day Of Fulfilment
3. Radiant Clearing
4. Organum
5. First Bright Light, The
6. Amithaba
7. Dawn
8. Dewdrops
DISC 2:
1. Falcon, The
2. Poetess, The
3. Serpents Hollow
4. Tuscany
5. Brugh Na Boine-The Elves Realm

A review from ambientrance.org
A host of keys, synths, samples, drum loops, cithers, voices and nature sounds (plus Indian instrumentation and percussion from friends) are melted indiscernibly down into sprawling riverlike essences. For more than ten minutes, Enchanted Land crosses steadily churning streams of slightly contoured vapors; their low, rolling timbre is decorated with sparse cymbal clatters and watery textures.

A short dip into Radiant Clearing is met by sizzling atmospheres, keening tones and a distantly throbbing rhythm. With sinuous twangs and tick-tocking percussion buried within its ever-turning billows, the deeply sheening currents of The First Bright Light cut through fogbank of smoke-and-chitter. Trickling rivulets splatter into the wavering gauze and emerging radiance of eighth track, Dewdrops (3:27) which closes the first CD at nearly 75 minutes.

As strings jangle lazily in a swelling resonance, The Falcon seems to soar over washing surf; as the piece evolves, a thumping rhythm arises from slowly stirring ambiance, followed by sitar-iffically melting environments from The Poetess (which is in turn backed by the shorter, drummier dream of Serpent's Hollow).

Another luxurious (and rather organic) earscape unfolds before the final track expels its mystical mistiness; Brugh Na Boine - The Elves Realm (28:12) exists in a land of cricket-inhabited haze which ripples and crests in oceanic motions. After 11 minutes metallic strands vibrate pensively into the shadowy stew.

Overall, the soundcolors tend toward a not-unappealling greyness, though the somber palette is uplifted by sky-swallowing trails of gustiness, and naturalized by field recordings. The near-homogenity makes for a practically seamless immersion into masterly longform abstractions from Alio Die and Matthias Grassow. Drone fans are directed to head for the Expanding Horizon straight away! A-


Other Albums by This Artist
  1. Under An Holy Ritual CD (Projekt, 1992)
  2. & Ora: The door of possibilities CD (Hic sunt Leones, 1993/94)
  3. Password for Entheogenic Experience CD (Hic sunt Leones, 1998)
  4. & Yannick Dauby: Descendre Cinq Lacs... (maxi cd) maxi-CD (Hic sunt Leones, 1998)
  5. Le Stanze della Trascendenza CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 1999)
  6. Incantamento CD (Hic sunt Leones, 2001)
  7. Leaves Net CD (Hic sunt Leones, 2001)
  8. & Sola Translatio: Ad Infinitum CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2001)
  9. and Amelia Cuni: APSARAS ~ SALE $5 CD (Projekt, 2001)
  10. & Antonio Testa: Prayer For The Forest CD (Green House Music, 2002)
  11. Il Tempo Magico di Saturnia Pavonia CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2003)
  12. Sol Niger CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2004)
  13. & Zeit: Sunja CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2004)
  14. Khen Introduce Silence CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2004)
  15. & Saffron Wood: The Sleep of Seeds CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2004)
  16. & Francesco Paladino: Angel's Fly Souvenir CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2005)
  17. & Werner Durand: Aqua Planing CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2005)
  18. & Festina Lente: Il Songo di un Piano Veneziano a Parigi CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2005)
  19. Suspended Feathers CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2005)
  20. & Jack or Jive: MEI-JYU ~ SALE $5 CD (Projekt, 2005)
  21. Under An Holy Ritual VINYL LP Vinyl (Small Voices, 2005)
  22. The Flight of the Real Image CD (Faria/Hic Sunt Leones, 2006)
  23. & Sola Translatio: Enigma CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2006)
  24. & Saffron Wood: Corteggiando le Messi CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2006)
  25. & Raffaele Serra=5000 Spirits: Quantum Consciousness CD (Sempiterna Mutatio/Hic Sunt Leones, 2006)
  26. & Raffaele Serra=5000 Spirits: Schwarzschild Radius CD (Sempiterna Mutatio/Hic Sunt Leones, 2006)
  27. & Raffaele Serra=5000 Spirits: Synapse-Shaihulud CD (Faria/Hic Sunt Leones, 2007)
  28. & Zeit: Raag Drone Theory CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2007)
  29. & James Johnson: Cube 7 - Sospensione D'Estate CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2007)
  30. & Luciano Daini: End of an Era CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2007)
  31. Antonio Testa: Inframundis CD (Faria/Hic Sunt Leones, 2008)
  32. Aura Seminalis CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2008)
  33. Tempus Rei CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2008)
  34. & Martina Galvagni: Eleusian Lullaby ~ SALE $5 CD (Projekt, 2008)
  35. Sit Tibi Terra Levis/Introspective re-issue CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2009)
  36. Hidden Spring re-issue CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2009)
  37. & Aglaia: Private History of the Clouds CD (Infraction, 2009)
  38. Music Infinity meets Virtues CD (Nextera, 2010)
  39. Horas Tibi Serenas CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2010)
  40. & Parallel Worlds: Circo Divino CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2010)
  41. & Zeit: Il Giardino Ermeneutico CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2010)
  42. Tripudium Naturae CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2010)
  43. & Mariolina Zitta: La Sala dei Cristalli CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2010)
  44. & Mathias Grassow: Praha Meditations CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2010)
  45. Honeysuckle CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2011)
  46. & Aglaia: Vayu Rouah CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2011)
  47. & Raffaele Serra=5000 Spirits: Towards Edentea CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2011)
  48. & Antonio Testa: Reverie CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2012)
  49. & Lingua Fungi: Otter Songs CD (Hic Sunt Leones, 2012)
  50. & Zeit: Live at Dada Theater Limited Edition CD-R CD-R (Hic Sunt Leones, 2012)
  51. Deconsecrated and Pure CD in 6-panel digpak (Projekt, 2012)
Merchandise by This Artist None at this time.