Release : ESE - Entheogenic Sound Explorers - The Other Door
Artist : ESE - Entheogenic Sound Explorers
Album : The Other Door
Genre : Ambient
Source : CDDA
Label : databloem
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Date : 00-00-2009
Encoder : LAME 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new
Quality : 191kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 11
Time : 50:11 min
Size : 69.31 MB
1 The Fountain 3:27
2 Water Architectures 4:32
3 In Memory Of Dr. Hofmann 5:42
4 Sunset On Rocky Walls 3:18
5 Hypnosis 3:49
6 Lost Abyss 3:57
7 Ambient Monks 5:50
8 Dawn Of Consciousness 2:14
9 Entheogenic Sound 5:55
10 Method Of Divisions 6:35
11 A Living Planet 4:52
At the end of every year I make a list of the best records released in that
particular year, and in 2007 The Shroom Experience by the Italian duo ESE
reached to number seven. This was their debut, and in the review I wrote that I
did not know what ESE stands for. Now I know. What we have here are Entheogenic
Sound Explorers, Stefano Contini and Piero Marchesi.
The Other Door is the second release, and the second is always difficult if the
first one is really great. Well, if you are looking for another first class
psychedelic album, this is it. This album starts of rather smooth with melodic
synths in a track called The Fountain. The voices come in track three, In Memory
Of Dr. Hofmann, with the voice of Albert Hofmann himself, which sets the tone
for a psychedelic experience. Further on you can here monks on beautiful synths
in a track called Ambient Monks. The best tracks are at the end of the album,
with Entheogenic Sound and Method of Divisions. Slow rhythms and hidden voices,
which really opens the other door. You may think of The Orb in their best years,
but this is much better than the latest Orb album (sorry Alex!). If Kim Cascone
was still running his Silent Records, then this would be on it. Anyone
remembering the Fifty Years Of Sunshine Compilation? Well, this is fifty minutes
of sunshine!
The label Silent Records is gone, but we have Databloem now. And this an
essential album for anyone into laid back and psychedelic sounds.