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Robert Rich has now produced quite a long string of techno-ambient albums of very high quality. This one is my personal favorite (though "Rainforest" and "The Seven Veils" are just about as good); it captures well what classical composer Carl Nielsen described in his fifth symphony as the "inextinguishable" will to survive and evolve. Rich is a master at producing slow, ambling-paced yet rhythmic music that builds gracefully in intensity, but never beyond its ambient roots to an outright climax. The attention to detail and clarity is marvelous! Despite the technological and ambient base, moreover, his music manages to transmit warmth and humanity.

Robert Rich manages to bring you back to the womb of humanity. At times his music is almost a religious experience, revealing the true nature of man and his place in our universe. Altogether a wondeful experience.

You're suspended as an embryo when listening to this CD The first track is stupendous; kudos to Mr. Rich! The rest of the CD is a journey deep inside the mind. Get ready when you put your headphones on. You're going to drift down a thick stream...full of dreams.

What does it sound like? The folks in Pink Floyd have imbibed a strong hallucinogenic brew and travelled through outer space to the hidden colony of the Ottoman Empire near the black hole known as Cygnus X-1. The antipodes of the psychonautic orientalist.

Representative of the New Age music cliches, dated production and synthesized culture remain encased in an apathetic flow.