I really liked the last Astralasia
record a lot. I had no idea they had a new one. The group is very diverse so
you are never quite sure what you will get but for sure a lot of spaced out
electronic music and maybe some guitar as well. This is a double album with
most tracks between 5 and 7mins with the exception of the long side 4 22 min
Time, Tide and Eternal. The album starts off with Alooland, a sort of new age
synth piece. This is not my favorite style of stuff from this band at all. It slowly builds up with synth bass and
programmed drums. Ghosts in between is another synth piece with some nice
piano. Oceania has a very fast synth arpeggio and some really cool psychedelic
guitar playing. Great track. Tangerine
Skies starts with a female spoken voice and then a dreamy synth line starts and
there are some more ethereal voices mixed in as it builds up. Kaleidoscopic
returns to this new age Kurzweil like synth with some piano stuff, a very
floating happy elevator music track. A bit of lounge jazz like guitar which
later evolves into some cool guitar. This ends and it changes into a very much
piano focused song until the end. North Star features a pretty cool saxophone,
played very slowly. This track slowly builds in some pretty cool layers over
the 7mins. Side 3 starts with Astral
Voyager with some Ozrics like guitar as the track builds up. Mushroom heartbeat
starts with a piano work out before the synth and female voice kicks in. A long
Shore is a 2.5 min track that ends side C with another floating new age like
thing with some saxophone. Side D is the
22 min long track. It takes a long time
to develop and features flute, electric tabla (?), and some other extra
percussive sounds we have not heard yet on the album. A quite deep bass that
shakes the floor is also present (mostly likey synth) as the track grows. It gets really spaced out and lost in space
around 15mins until the end. If you like the last several albums you will dig
this one as well.
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