earman127 - EugeneKha - Mantra of Space Monks

Earth Mantra has long been a big fan of the various electronic music made by
Moscow-based artist Evgenij Kharitonov, who records intriguing and boundary
pushing ambient space music under the name EugeneKha. But with his latest
release, called "Mantra of Space Monks", we feel he has produced his best work
yet, an album of truly immense significance.

EugeneKha has always been about sound design, and about fusing together
disparate elements to create what we might term 'progressive ambient' music.
With his latest work, he continues to polish the sculpture and texture of the
sound, but he has eschewed rhythm and pulsation, focusing instead on deep and
entrancing ambient elements that combine to form some of the most immersive
space music we've heard in awhile. And yet, despite its mesmerizing aspects, the
music retains Evgenij's signature ability to bend familiar sounds into new and
unique devices that are both immediately approachable and yet distinctive and
refreshing. Imagine if Boards of Canada slowed themselves way down and took a
deep dive into pure beatless ambience. Now combine that with elements of Eno and
a strong sense of traditional space music, and you have a glimmer of
understanding of the type of material you might find in this delicious album.

We've heard a lot of superb pure ambience from EugeneKha before, but we are
struck by the great patience and minimalism of pieces like "The Calmness Sea"
and "Ethereal Drone", tracks that really showcase the artist's mastery of the
ambient form and demonstrate how he has found a zone of truly placid and
soothing ambient composition that only some of the masters of the genre have
previously encountered. With such profound subtlety and grace, we sincerely
believe this is an album that will stand the test of time, and certainly one of
the top releases of 2010.

So it is with great pleasure we unveil the latest Earth Mantra release by
EugeneKha. We hope Evgenij continues in this direction, and continues to share
with us his extraordinary musical vision.

As always, all Earth Mantra releases are available under the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license. For commercial use,
please contact us.

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Music and arrangement, keyboards, percussion, guitar, programming, and samples
by Evgenij V. Kharitonov. Recorded and mastered at White Art Studio, Moscow,
Russia, from December 2009 to February 2010.

Released in May 2010.

Released under the "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0
Unported" license, which allows and encourages free use of this material so long
as certain conditions are met. Details of this license can be found at:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

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earman127 - EugeneKha - Mantra of Space Monks

64:47 - 151 MB

01 - Personal Sky (5:46, 13.5 MB)
02 - Ethereal Drone (4:27, 10.4 MB)
03 - The Interpreter of Dreams (4:32, 10.6 MB)
04 - Empty Alarms (8:57, 21.0 MB)
05 - The Burnt Wings (7:02, 16.5 MB)
06 - The Calmness Sea (3:31, 8.2 MB)
07 - Light of Bells (6:17, 14.7 MB)
08 - Red Star (6:13, 14.6 MB)
09 - Solar Castle (4:50, 11.3 MB)
10 - Mantra of Space Monks (13:12, 30.9 MB)

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