So while all of you were devouring the new split with Robe., I've been working for a long time on the album I've finally entitled THE ASTRAL TRAVELS. It has honestly took me a year to record this and now I feel exhausted both physically and creatively at the amount of work I've put into this. I'm quite shocked at the amount of detail I've threw into these long slabs of ambience and I truly think it's my best work by far. I have come a long way since I started this project back when I was 15 and didn't know how to work recording equipment, and I really think I've refined my sound and completely matured in the way I approach music. I now fully understand WHAT makes music interesting (for me anyway) and I've used that to the best of my ability.
One gripe I've had with a lot of ambient/drone music is that some of it is just the one tone throughout a 10 minute or whatever duration. And that's all good but not really interesting in the long run... so I've tried my hardest to look at my music from a compositional level and morph the pieces to work as a real piece of music rather than 'jamming out' as a lot of people describe it. The album is quite heavy at first, what with the 75 minute runtime and the fact most of the tracks go over the 10 minute mark but I've put a lot of work into this and I'd like to hear what you guys have to say. Thanks.
97mb zip file...
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LUQY7MZL