Banjhakri
"If you go to New South Wales, you will see marsupials hopping about the countryside. And if you go to the antipodes of the self-conscious mind, you will encounter all sorts of creatures at least as odd as kangaroos. You do not invent these creatures any more than you invent marsupials. They live their own lives in complete independence. A man cannot control them. All he can do is go to the mental equivalent of Australia and look around him."
~Aldous Huxley
Ready to go to "Australia" anyone?
Favorite track: Gelfling.
Bob Duskis
Forget "World" music, these guys make "Other-World" music. Haunting female vocals & excellent musicianship, combines with organic acoustic textures and clever programming to create a sound that is sometimes almost "orchestral" in nature. Very unique and enchanting.
shivatronic
very special "psychedelik" mid tempo vibes, with real instruments and musicians, mixed with a weirdly beatufull female voice... (at least for me).
i really like to dig into this one some time!
(thought i didn't get into the second LP)...
Azam
First thing that gets you about this album is the artwork, by Android Jones. The second is the interesting vocal style over the glitchy/trip hop background.
Favorite track: The Emperor and the Oracle.
You were there, among the luminous beings. You did not know how you had arrived, or what language they were speaking, but you understood they meant no harm and they wished to sing you a story.
It was important.
Their words, somehow familiar, shimmered on the verge of meaning. And as their iridescent music enfolded you, you knew they longed for you to understand.
Then it was over, and you awoke, and you were back.
all composition, keyboards, production, and mixing by Joshua Penman
mastered by Kevin Metcalfe
recorded at Entourage Studios (strings, flute, horn), System Krush Studios (Indian mandolin), and Blue Giant Studios (harp)
all recorded by Joshua Penman except harp by Jason Schimmel
Digital painting by Andrew Jones based on a photograph by Sequoia Emmanuelle with makeup by Ashely Joy Beck. Akara logo by Xavi. Layout and design by Joshua Penman.
Created by a conservatory-trained classical composer turned electronica producer, Akara's mystical dancefloor symphonies are songs of the luminous extradimensional beings, sung across the veil of reality.
Floex is a next-level psychedelic producer from the Czech republic also combining classical instrumentation and composition with deep, mulitlayered beat production. A kindred spirit with Akara. Akara
One of the great original new-school midtempo visionary electronic music producers. Such subtlety and grace and groove. Taking dubby dance music to a transcendent and deeply musical place. Akara
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Magical and timeless all the way through. Favorite track would be The Aubergine of the Sun, except there's that part in the middle of Adrift where you start listening as a human and end up a one-eyed snail scrunching reality up into melting origami puzzles. a