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Acid Gospel Experience

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This album cover features a photograph, an aerial view of barren land. The first two songs are what I'd call "high-speed ambient," different from most ambient which oozes and flows. Listening to this "high-speed ambient," I felt like I was flying in a small aircraft, flying low over barren land, looking out the window, enjoying the scenery.

The tempo gets a bit slower on the third track, and by the fifth track, the tempo is so slow the song almost doesn't move. "Lunar Afternoon" is a beautiful track. The title is a perfect description.

"Under A Wing" features piano playing that could fit in with modern classical music. I could see this song mixed in with Ahn Trio, for example.

"Skylight" is another notable track, with hints of European technopop.

The last song on the album is 18 minutes long, all ambient. This is floating music!

Back in 1982, I heard my first ambient album, Brian Eno's "Music For Airports." I loved that album, but have never gotten around to buying it. Fortunately, this sound has lived on, and today I have other ambient albums, including this one. I can picture this one being used in the Detroit airport, in the totally cool underground tunnel where the lighted walls constantly change color to the ambient music.

This is an enjoyable album that I would recommend. (For a complete description of how I rate CDs, click on "About Me.")

This flowing, impressionistic psychedelia blows away Sigur Ros, Djam Karet, and Ozric Tentacles. Scenic integrates the influence of early '70s German experimental rock without compromising their own identity, just as they mine the spontaneity of group improvisation without sounding like a jam band. Scenic's first album, INCIDENT AT CIMA, is a classic instrumental rock tribute to Morricone and Dick Dale; on THE ACID GOSPEL EXPERIENCE, Scenic etches their own identity in the Arizona sandstone.

2 1/2 stars

Scenic fall into the type of bands who parlay just that, scenes..Rather then abruptly inserting their songwriting into the songs, the band mostly lets the music come to them..While nothing much in the way of composition, the album is true style over substance, and in the way of making the journey greater then the destination, scenic triumps..Music that wills to go inside of itself is never a bad thing, even when it is too preocupied with going inside a hollow shell of an exterior that was never properly built to begin with..