Garden Des Etoiles is the second album by Blue Glass following on from the debut album Pale Mirror, the bands main man Michael Shunk used to be in Transient Songs and this album does have a bit of a transient feel.
From the opening Jardin Des Etoiles I it's obvious that this is an album of rather laid back ambient neo classical music that is influenced by Philip Glass and Steve Reich. The first movement is quite tonal and gently shifts and modulates in a very minimal fashion.
The second movement of Jardin Des Etoiles adds a guitar being played as if it's a harp and barely their synth's to soothe away your pains. The III movement is a sparse tone that has little noises added around it as it builds slowly like it wants to be on the soundtrack to some sci-fi movie as they start to explore a barren wasteland of a planet.
The IV movement is the longest one on the album and is slowly built around an ambient tone that could easily be used as a piece of relaxation music to help you off to sleep it's about as gentle as it can be.
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The V Movement is so gentle it is barely there as a textural backdrop or as ambient music to be played in a shopping mall that most people won't even notice and half of those that do notice will be intensely irritated by how slight it is, or are they just floating in space.
The VI movement is the one that sounds like it is the son of David Bowies Warsawa and it feels like that idea has been stripped back to make an even more minimal tune.
The VII movement feels more crystalline and almost like we are sitting on a beach listening to the waves gently come in as it feels like one long shimmering tone.
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