Drifting lands ost11/6/2022 ![]() ![]() This is ambient music that lets you drift in it’s melancholy for a while, its inertia is a stunning thing and helps take you away from this world and its problems and out beyond the boundaries of Earth. The mood of the piece shifts subtly as it goes on, but you are still left with that feeling that you are marooned on a planet somewhere and gazing off into void of unknown stars. ![]() Instead, the sounds here are a lot darker, like waking up on a beach on some distant world not knowing where you are. Beginning with the sound of waves on a beach, it instantly made me think of Jean Michel Jarre’s first Oxygene album. “Rocks 2” has a similar atmosphere to its predecessor and can been seen as the only return to a theme that this soundtrack album has, Mellotron choirs drifting in its cold landscape.Īt twenty minutes long, “Water” is the longest piece on the album. The track bristles with energy like watching a storm on Jupiter, dances around and around like you are watching events from high above the Jovian cloud surface. Once the sequenced rhythm hits in, we are off on a galactic ride and a journey into our inner universe. The track is a deep-sky opus that conjures up aural connections to Tangerine Dream’s seminal Phaedra. “Sand Waves” starts with a squelching synth sound over wind noise. The Ape Regards His Tail – Original Soundtrack – by Sula Bassana It gives the impression of wide-open vistas, but ones found on some alien world. ![]() In a strange way, it comes across as an almost lilting lullaby to the cosmos, with echoed guitars playing a simple melody that adds space to the track rather than takes it away. “Desert” begins to bring in more of a pulsing rhythm, although this is gently understated, and it’s here where we pick up on the influence of Seventies Berlin School sounds creeping into Sula’s palette. Big throbbing bass synth notes underlay beautiful and eerie chords that drift in the upper atmosphere. “Rocks 1” rumbles like a Martian rover over its terrain. “Dreams” haunts the speakers like something from Klaus Schulze‘s Irrlicht, its brief two-minute stay making it seem like a summer shooting star as organ chords hang in the dark sky. It draws you in and makes you think of a night among the stars. There’s a glorious blissful energy to the piece that moves languidly and swells at the right moments. The sound reminds me of Brian Eno’s ambient work, in particular his Apollo And Atmospheres soundtrack. Things kick off with “The Begining”, a glorious drone that hangs in the air like an expectant storm. ![]()
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