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General Information
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Album: Nightbloom
Artist: Steve Roach and Mark Seelig
Copyright: 2010
Genre: Ambient
File Information
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Number of Tracks: 5
Total Duration: 1:13:40
Parity Archive: No
Ripped By: NMR
Files Created on: 11-Nov-2010 23:49:23
Ripped With: NMR
Encoded With: FLAC
Encoded At: CBR 619 kbit/s 44 KHz Stereo
ID3 Tags: No
NFO Created: 08-Aug-2011 00:00:57
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Track List
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File Size MB Duration File Name
1 83.31 0:18:32 01 Part1
2 58.93 0:12:39 02 Part2
3 67.20 0:13:55 03 Part3
4 53.03 0:12:32 04 Part4
5 71.01 0:16:02 05 Part5
Description
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Prolific ambient innovator Steve Roach teams with Ph.D. shamanic practitioner /
musician Mark Seelig to create a long-form piece of space-opening sound magic.
Like the many fragrant and beautiful night-blooming plants which are host to
mind-altering qualities, this 70-minute experience slowly blooms outwards with
Mark's vocal harmonic and Tuva-style overtoning intertwining within Steve's
zones and "terra" grooves. A slow motion magical blend is created in this
nocturnal mist-filled realm. The power of the human voice is drawn forth in a
primordial understanding and finds a perfect fusion with subterranean
heartbeats, drones and zones swelling from the harmonic soil, gently urging the
Nightblooming to increase its potency and allure. Steve and Mark are intrepid
travlers in the realms of expanded musical states; they have collaborated with
shamanic percussionist Byron Metcalf on MANTRAM, NADA TERMA, DISCIPLE and
WACHUMA'S WAVE. This release settles into the sustained oceanic qualities of these powerful releases. Slow down, breathe deep, hear and feel the Nightbloom blooming inside.
If the titular plant of the new collaboration between ambient icon Steve Roach and spirit-singer Mark Seelig were real, it would give off a lotus-like, drowse-inducing scent and have long, velvet-coated tendrils which would wrap around anyone lucky enough to succumb to its essence and pull them into the Lower World. While we sadly lack the actual plant to send us on that journey, this CD will certainly suffice. A dark meditation in five seamless parts, NIGHTBLOOM is perhaps as ritualistic a disc as Roach and Seelig have ever collaborated on, a hypnotic, symbiotic prayer of equal parts organic and electronic. Seelig's
beautifully eerie overtone signing, the blend of rich low notes and a flute-
like whistle produced in the
singer's throat at the same time, become indistinguishable from Roach's ever-
changing soundpools and "terra grooves" in moments of perfect interplay. The
disc moves with serpentine grace, a constant flow of shadow moving ever deeper
into the cave of the mind. A long, intertwined and uninterrupted flow between
Roach and Seelig clears the space to begin the disc, opening the way for the
bold shamanic drumming that hammers in from the sides as skittering analog
beats define a path for your spirit to follow downward. The density and
intensity here combine in an almost tactile humidity of sound, an atmosphere
composed of intent. It goes deeper through the drum-driven second and third
parts as the duo proceed to unfold your mind over and over. This makes the
"cool down" of parts four and five, something of a reprieve, that much more
effective as you're released to drift, borne on Seelig's vocals. The disc winds
down to a space of silence, and you may find yourself unwilling to disturb it
for several moments.
Roach's sound design on NIGHTBLOOM has the kind of dimensional depth that makes you feel you can move through it, reach into it and part the sounds to create your passage. The layering throughout NIGHTBLOOM is stunning. There is no passive listening here; every sound, however slight, every nuance, is designed and set in place to bring you to a different state, a place well inside, to tap the primal. And it works, perfectly. Because NIGHTBLOOM has taken me to amazing places and shown me incredible things every time I've
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