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Cyber Zen Sound Engine - Moonscapes~ How Stones Become Enlightened.nfo
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Album: Moonscapes: How Stones Become Enlightened
Artist: Cyber Zen Sound Engine
Year: 2000
Genre: New Age / Electronic / Downtempo / Ambient
DESCRIPTION
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From Aural Innovations #14 (January 2001)
http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue14/cyberzen.html
This is 99% electronic ambient space music, but not in the sparse wave-ambient style of early Tangerine Dream, utilizing more distinct production, with several great tracks peppered throughout the album (some of which could even qualify as "songs"). Most of the sounds are computer-sequenced for the backdrop but there is also some light improvised synth. CZSE are also a bit different for the ambient field as they don't beat around the arizpheric bush as far as getting into the main theme of a piece: there are few slow quiet fade-ins, so most of the tracks clock in between the 4-5 minute range.
The album starts with "All Directions Are Up", which proceeds with a rhythmic pulse, some nice breathy synth and various electronic percussion, the latter of which pops up now and then throughout the album (though as Jerry K would say it's not your typical "floating electronica", taking what it needs from the techno genres and leaving the rest). Following is the album's only piece that breaks the ten-minute mark, "Wind Without Air"; perhaps it could have been a bit shorter, though the guitar tones do shift to a lower register by the end of the track and subtle synth tones abound, so there is progression. "Lucas Somniorum" is definitely a favorite, with its creeping synth pulse thoughout the track, like the sound of an under-water alien chorus, and some more complicated and interesting percussion laid over. Following is "Unexpected Companions", with an even more effective aquatic-synth-creeper underlying the whole piece. The percussive beat here comes closest to the techno approach, but again, not in the danceable mode. Great stuff, though rather short. "Mare Serenetatis" and "The Moon in the Water" both feature very simple but beautiful keyboard-and-piano melodies and sadly wailing synth, and are among my favorites of the disc. "Severed Son" and "One Divine Neuron" are the two tracks with vocals, the former having an extremely depressing mood and the latter having a sample-voice claiming "It isn't lonely at all", though one wonders. The remaining tracks contain similar instrumentation and the same amount of layering but are less notable. Not bad as a debut. Might even be your second coming.
FILE INFORMATION
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Number of Tracks: 13
Total Duration: 1:01:57
Total Size: 344 MBs (including scans, m3u, cue, log, spectrums, and nfo)
Parity Archive: Yes, 7%
Ripped By: NMR
Files Created on: NMR
Ripped With: NMR
Encoded At: lossless, FLAC / 44.1 KHz
ID3 Tags: Yes
NFO Created: 9 September 2014
Tracklist
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01) All Directions Are Up
02) Wind Without Air
03) Too Far Home
04) Lucas Somniorum
05) Unexpected Companions
06) In The Midst Of Desolation
07) Mare Serenetatis
08) Severed Son
09) Lucas Mortis
10) The Moon In The Water
11) One Divine Neuron
12) Displaced Space
13) Falling Like Light
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