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▓█░ ALBUM ---------------- > Dreamlife ░█▓
▓█░ LABEL ---------------- > Sylken Records ░█▓
▓█░ GENRE ---------------- > Ambient ░█▓
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▓█░ STREET --------------- > 04/18/2005 ░█▓
▓█░ RELEASE -------------- > 08/02/2005 ░█▓
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▓█░ 01. Night Wings 06:13 ░█▓
▓█░ 02. First Light Falling 06:07 ░█▓
▓█░ 03. The Ocean of Dreams 05:53 ░█▓
▓█░ 04. In Astral Flight 03:51 ░█▓
▓█░ 05. The in Between 04:05 ░█▓
▓█░ 06. Here and Now 04:34 ░█▓
▓█░ 07. Sings the Heart 07:50 ░█▓
▓█░ 08. Adrift in A Sea of Light 09:10 ░█▓
▓█░ 09. Memories to Come 05:20 ░█▓
▓█░ 10. Awakening the Dreamlife 04:22 ░█▓
▓█░ 11. Vistas 05:41 ░█▓
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▓█░ textures that carries the ░█▓
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▓█░ voyages to starfields and wheat ░█▓
▓█░ fields alike, mixing a cosmic ░█▓
▓█░ sense of deep outer space with a ░█▓
▓█░ more earthbound feeling of broad ░█▓
▓█░ landscapes stretching out to ░█▓
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▓█░ The album begins in excellent ░█▓
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▓█░ repeating bell tones, whooshing ░█▓
▓█░ drones, and lush synth washes of ░█▓
▓█░ "Night Wings" which, without the ░█▓
▓█░ use of emphatic beats, still ░█▓
▓█░ creates a mood of rapid flight. ░█▓
▓█░ "First Light Falling" opens with ░█▓
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▓█░ chords of the type used by Liquid ░█▓
▓█░ Mind, but played in a different ░█▓
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▓█░ A gentle foreground synth floats ░█▓
▓█░ lazily among the more textural ░█▓
▓█░ washes, and I was also reminded a ░█▓
▓█░ bit of the pastoral ambience of ░█▓
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▓█░ spacemusic quality overtakes the ░█▓
▓█░ minimalism and imparts a sense of ░█▓
▓█░ awe and reverence without being ░█▓
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▓█░ song, which brings to mind how ░█▓
▓█░ the ambient artist Jon Mark ░█▓
▓█░ integrated flugelhorn on some ░█▓
▓█░ tracks of his classic A Sunday in ░█▓
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▓█░ with longer songs (such as the ░█▓
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▓█░ Light" which sounds about what an ░█▓
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▓█░ airy, spacious warm layers of ░█▓
▓█░ keyboards and textures, hovering ░█▓
▓█░ and floating in random patterns). ░█▓
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▓█░ this album is the overt presence ░█▓
▓█░ of electronics (as opposed to ░█▓
▓█░ sampling traditional ░█▓
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▓█░ use of too many clichΘ synth ░█▓
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▓█░ Whether it's the reflective and ░█▓
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▓█░ If you have a fondness for ░█▓
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▓█░ a hot genre, but don't want a CD ░█▓
▓█░ that is merely a throwback or ░█▓
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▓█░ drifting ... Dreamlife still ░█▓
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▓█░ recommend it to drifting ambient ░█▓
▓█░ music fans everywhere. ░█▓
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