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█ █ presenting our latest release
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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Jim Cole
Title......: The Way Beyond
Rip Date...: 2009-05-16 Cat.No.....: Spectral Spiral 5
Style......: Ambient Label......: Spectral Spiral Music
Quality....: VBRk Type.......: Album
Size.......: 75.65MB Source.....: CD
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
....While each cut on the disc has a separate mood or tone, The Way Beyond
must be considered as a massive, undulating, living, breathing ambient zone
of stillness and, unusually, simultaneous constant change and transition.
While the basis of this recording is layered drones comprised solely from
Cole's harmonic singing, these layers are overlapped with constantly
changing sonic waves and patterns which create the feeling of watching a
rushing brook; all motion and churning fluid on top, but a deep, peaceful
stillness beneath.
....At around track nine, for example, the deep tones of Cole's voice
expand and contract in an almost psychedelic flux, as if one is buffeted
upon solar winds....This is inner space music in the highest sense of the
term. Cole's seemingly plaintive cries strike as melancholy in track ten,
but they are at the same time hopeful.
....Jim Cole, armed with only looped drones created from his own voice, has
somehow unlocked a secret place within just by creating music....This
wordless music, without connotation, has the power to unearth nameless
spiritual delight within. There is no question--The Way Beyond is holy
music, no matter what your persuasion--it is ageless, and always a valid
and enriching experience. As with Godspace (and I believe that The Way
Beyond surpasses its predecessor in terms of breadth and sonic diversity
from the same essential sound sources), I find the music herein to be
unquestionably one of the finest ambient/atmospheric releases of 2003. This
is the kind of music that reminds of why one became an appreciator of the
genre in the first place--it makes you feel good, larger than yourself,
and, most of all, connected to the artist and music in some way that is
difficult to describe with words that always seem clumsy by comparison.
This disc goes ôway beyondö Godspace, and that's really saying something.
The Way Beyond gets my highest recommendation: it's paradigm shattering
work by one of the brightest lights in today's ambient scene.
p l a y l i s t
1 1 6:10
2 2 3:41
3 3 3:46
4 4 3:28
5 5 5:32
6 6 2:17
7 7 3:22
8 8 4:50
9 9 13:30
10 10 6:07
11 11 7:09
12 12 13:47
..
73:39
g r e e t i n g s
1way - agw - amok - bass - bcc - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe - uki
xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl