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Cloud Cover

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In Cloud Clover, Robert Scott Thompson's amazing skill in creating deep, impressionistic sound environments shines through brilliantly through a series of tracks of ambient electronic musical imagery.

It's a journey again to other times and other places where worlds merge and blend into each other, then diverge again and drift apart in a kind of interdimensional shift! The music has at times an eerie effect to it, an alien feel as if it were being broadcast from a cosmic, archetypal repository of delicately and exquisitely crafted sound structures. Each track has its own distinctive character with mesmerizing electronics emanating from deep within, blending with tibetan bowls in places and altogether sculpting a sonic landscape where mystery and alchemy mix and give rise to states of mind where the natural shapeshifts into the supernatural and travels a path never explored before!

The music has some slow-evolving, tense moments but then picks up speed and metamorphoses into magnificent sounding passages that give one the impression that something horribly significant and ominous is being worked out, a truth of cosmic proportions is being prepared to be revealed and the listener's mind gyrates in awe and in anticipation of this imminent apocalypse!

Music usually can serve as a mood altering medium but the way R.S.T. uses sound results in a complete transfer of mind to a surreal level where all the limits lift and experience becomes unconstrained and free to expand and move into the "imaginal", a realm between fact and fantasy!

R.S.T is a master artist, a whimsical sorcerer of sound, a designer of dreams made of pure vibration. It would be hard to listen to his work and not immediately recognize the genius behind it. Cloud Cover gets better with each listen as different and subtler elements and nuances of the music become apparent and to fully appreciate the depth and value of this album one has to devote some time to it, feel it, touch it and assimilate it until one becomes so familiar with it, you can almost call it home!

Enigmatic, mysterious and misty. Soft, tender and delicate. Peaceful, moving and flowing. All these epithets are quite suitable for the music of «Fountainhead», the new project, released by Aucourant Records.

«Cloud Cover» is a classical ambient. This is a music, which invites us to immerse into the depths of unknown, other worlds or abandon ourselves to a solitary contemplation. It creates a specific surrounding, covers a listener, and gives him an opportunity to concentrate on the things, he considers most important for the moment. Still, if we would stop only on this aspect of the album music, one more important detail would be missing: «Cloud Cover» is good as a not unobtrusive background. You can not hear the music attentively, but just use it as a rather intelligent helper for various activities. And this is the advantage of the album (as well as the advantage of the classical ambient!).

Sometimes a little bit gloomy, sometimes more light - but you ca be sure that it is never pressing - the music of«Fountainhead» gives the impression of space. With the help of this music you can enter your inner space or just feel it. This music can be attributed to minimalism. And these very means of expression are good to feel the infinity of both inner and external worlds.

And so, while listening to the «Cloud Cover», you can not be bored, and you just wish to swim in the flowing, airy streams, created by the «Fountainhead»...

Serge Kozlovsky
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