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                 Artist : Antonio Testa & Alio Die
                  Album : Healing Herb's Spirit
                   Year : 1999
                  Genre : Ambient
                   Type : Album

                  Label : Crowd Control Activities
            Catalogue # : Crowded 13
           Release Date : Apr/15/2005

                 Source : CDDA
                Encoder : Lame
                Quality : VBRKbps, Joint-Stereo
                 Length : 55:17 min
                   Size : 72,1 MB


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                  Combine a ritual, shamanic approach with Alio
                  Die's intimate atmospheres, and the result is a
                  rich, layered sound full of unearthly tribal
                  textures that will draw you subconsciously into an
                  expanded state of mind. Stefano contributes
                  exceptionally well crafted drones and sonic
                  disturbances to this unique collaboration.  Testa
                  is a percussionist known for his utilization of
                  hand made and ethnic instruments. Add this crafted
                  chorus to Stefano's signature organic ambience,
                  and you end up with a sound that is guaranteed to
                  please the discerning ear. This brilliant
                  combination provides a wonderfully intriguing
                  release, that captures the soul as the mind
                  wanders endlessly in a sublime abyss of
                  ethnographic ambient consciousness.
                  (Crowd Control Activities promo)

                  Healing Herb's Spirit" takes you on a journey into
                  the gossamer world of the Shaman, with refreshing
                  soundscapes and earthy ambience.  This release is
                  a collaboration between Antonio Testa with his
                  ritual percussion and Stefano Musso of Alio Die
                  with his organic ambience. These two Italian
                  composers display a talent unrivaled by their
                  peers. What I appreciate most about the music is
                  Testa's creative use of hand made and ethnic
                  instruments. He uses over 20 exotic instruments
                  including seed and bone whistles, flying romb,
                  water punpkin, stalgmite(!?), and Tibetan bowls.
                  The instruments never overpower the ambient base,
                  but work together to create texture and direction.
                  The dark and soothing ambience never sounds
                  artificial and the occasional vocal element adds a
                  human touch to the nature inspired music.
                  "Healing Herb's Spirit" is just what the doctor
                  ordered: a lush quiet soundscape of beauty to
                  transport your mind to a place of ethereal peace.
                  I'll be keeping this CD close at hand for when I
                  need a quick escape from this world.
                  [Octavia / Outburn #9]

                  Earthy and shamanic (organic), rich textures
                  slither, coil around the ears (embrace), leading
                  the listener into all the remote pockets of
                  unexplored terrain, a full-bodied excursion, and
                  yet the sound is not cluttered or overwhelming.
                  Quite the contrary, the fascinating collage of
                  instruments (including Woodblock rototom, bone
                  flute, rainstick, Tibetan bowls, water pumpkin,
                  bamboo... stones, shells and leaves...electronics,
                  samples, etc.) helps to create a diverse canopy
                  under which the mind fills with images of forests
                  (trees sighing...), wind and sky, of the sentience
                  of eons long dead but still infused with vitality.
                  The result is an always expanding array of sounds
                  enmeshed in the fabric of ritual, of sonically
                  soothing spiritual diversions that lead to
                  transcendence, peaceful and yet invigorating.  Ah,
                  but within this framework, the heart of the disc
                  grows quite dark, leery, more mysterious...it is a
                  prismatic travelogue incorporating many sonic
                  colors or lacks thereof (reds, yellows,
                  grays...blacks...) in a haunting and sporadically
                  time resistant cocoon...time standing
                  still...losing meaning.  A nice transition that
                  keeps the listener always attentive.  Calm, though
                  quite invigorating...
                  [JC Smith]

                  http://www.oltreilsuono.com/aliodie.html

                  01. Shuar
                  02. Rahien
                  03. Dreaming
                  04. Icaros
                  05. Yacaruna
                  06. Vimuktita
                  07. Turiya


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