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Axiom Ambient: Lost in the Translation

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this is a great example of how laswell's layering and melding of different songs comes into play.an ambient record comprised of some of the most heartfelt tunes that were on the axiom label!if you dig chill-grooves,this is seriously a must-have!!!

This album is his Love Unlimited Orchestra. I mean that in a good way. If you own any or all of the albums these "reconfigurations" are based upon, this is just a really cool way to revisit them in not such an edgy manner. But don't worry, they haven't had the life sucked out of them, or been dumbed-down. This is Ambient with balls, if you will.

....The geniality of this work is beyond words to me....although I do believe is not for everyone, since it deals with a quiestion out of our time and space....which is death....our own death.....so this work stays most of the time on rather obscure and meditative sounds.....and you have to be in a very special mood to capture all of its thougt and greatness...and obviously.....as the very title of the album itself says:.....you have to think about your very own "Translation" out of this life as we know it....no wonder the author uses the word "lost" too....because we're a dealing with a concept clearly beyond our knowledge now....where we are gonna be out of everything.....out of this world, out of ourselves, out of our mind, out of our time.....maybe even out of our very own souls as we know them.....But also the great thing about this piece of art is that it doesn't present the phenomena in a disturbing and alarming way.....but rather in the rather a quiet and meditative mood that makes you think about the relativity of everything.....even eternity in itself.