This album, in my humble opinion, is a classic in the field of tribal ambient music. The long-winded aural explorations unfurl in the ears like heliotropes at the first sight of an enigmatic dawn, and the drawn-out cinematic keyboard flourishes make portentous serpentine striations in the baby-smooth dunes of the mind. This is perfect headphone music (and, if you feel so inclined, perfect tripping music as well). The hypnagogic pull of the drifting soundscapes also puts the listener in touch with the Dreamtime, a mythical time where totemic beings shaped and continue to shape the atmosphere with their powerful acts of omnipotence. In the words of David Abram:
"It is a kind of time out of time, a time hidden beyond or even within the evident, manifest presence of the land, a magical temporality wherein the powers of the surrounding world first took up their current orientation with regard to one another..."
A transfiguration in sound.
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