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New Album "ATLAN" Review by Thom Jones

Posted by SoRIAH on October 18, 2009 at 1:20
A Review of "ATLAN" by Thomas JonesA secret truth revealed: Beauty and the Beast are the samething. Soriah’s chimera fusion with Ashkelon Sain hasproduced a sprawling entity, darkly cloaked in groaningatmospheres, yet emanating an ascending light of inestimablebeauty. Atlan is a deeply organic experience. Crisp handpercussion palpitates rising drones in a cellular blood-rushof life. Long, open expanses of slowly shifting tones hanglike low clouds in a frosted mountain range. And when theQuetzalcoatl Kundalini of Soriah’s lyrical throat singingfires down the spine, everything goes astral. Quiveringstrings and chimes offer allusions to Arabo-Andaleusiantextures which run rivulet alongside Tuvan strainsthroughout the dreamscape. Dead CAN dance to such music,because this is the music of the underworld; the music ofhidden places visited by beings beyond the corporeal. Bothartists have long pedigrees; some 40 years of live andrecorded musical experience between them. Soriah has existedunder that name for over a decade, having released severalalbums and known for performing all places mystical,including trees, churches, caves. He has also beenrecognized, through international competition, as one of thetop 5 throat singers in the world. Ashkelon Sain’s TranceTo The Sun project is legendary. And his composition skillshave been honed razor sharp with his more recent SubmarineFleet. The collaboration is a match made in Omeyocan (thehighest Aztec Heaven). Each of Atlan’s 11 tracks is aunique, carefully carved sound-mosque. Like minded soulminers Terry Riley, Huun Huur Tu, SPK’(Zamia Lehmanni)andRobert Rich are good touchstones for what’s in store, buttrying to aptly describe the sonic majesty of Atlan mayrequire divine intervention.
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