Terra Ambient, the project of electronic musician Jeff Kowal, debuted with
The Darker Space (Space For Music, 2002).
Tracks:
To the Brink and Back,
The Breathing Earth,
Aether,
The Glass House,
First Light on Aeyer's Rock,
Under Dirt X,
Amaria.
The Gate (Lotus Pike, 2004)
was actually performed with percussion, didjeridoo, guitar, bansuri flute, dumbek, djembe, voice samples, a garbage-can lid and no electronics at all.
The ancestral atmosphere of The Gate is mainly obtained via
intimidating drones and is akin to Jon Hassell's "forth-world music".
The slow, bass flute phrases of Majoun evokes infinite darness and
cosmic vortexes.
The tribal element permeates Sandstorm Dreaming, whose noises sound like
voices in the space-temporal fog.
The spirit of mystical communion with nature is represented by the nirvana-inducing Westerly Prayer,
while Serpent and Stone displays a cinematic quality akin to Morricone's soundtracks but filtered through a psychedelic prism.
Compared with the previous monoliths, Blood is the "rocking" track of
the album, as a loud guitar intones a slow prayer over a rumbling choir of
droning instruments.
Kowal's peaks of pathos recall Steve Roach,
minus the sweeping electronic frescoes.
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