Ambientale is a compilation that lives up to its title of being totally Ambient and has been compiled by Charles Bals who takes us on a global journey to find some totally obscure and often rather wonderful music.
The A side opens with Ventiane by Italian Luigi Ceccarelli that is a beguiling laid back piece with pan pipes, chimes, tambourines and a huge gong that has essences of the Rano Boru.
Whispers Of Chikurin by Gin No Nami fuses Tokyo opera with ambient electronica to slowly shape shift as it relaxes your mind.
We then get two tunes from Akira Mitake the first Yasha is in a similar vein to Swedish Prog soundtrack master Hans Lundgren, but with a Tokyo twist or two, a very 80's synth sound and slow careful percussive stylings. Modernism has a late-night cartoon soundscape feel.
Greece Ambientale by individual Sensitivity has gentle birdsong oddly punctuated drum flourishes, and a beguiling piano motif feeling like a slow walk along a peaceful beach, strings enticing you into a taverna. The mood then shifts feeling a bit more energetic.
Evening In The Sahara by Steve Shehan is spectral desert jazz drifting into Mark Hunton's laid back sphere, the beat beneath everything, is achingly familiar and very supine.
Peaceful Traffic by Private Joke I look forward to hearing at my day job sitting in London traffic, this calms things right down to a Bo Hansson style setting in a dreamscape of beautiful visions, total serenity in this barely moving line of calm serene French Balearic drivers, lost in the magical properties within.
Then Adriano Naria Vitali takes us in Deep Blue Circles to a heavenly peaceful place, the gentlest jazzy melody blowing through hand drums calming nectar you'll be drifting away.
Nevermind by Matsami Tsuchiya reimagines all of the classic nirvana album in a twittering birdsong, pipes and synths wonderworld, angst free and clear of all thoughts, jumbling up, strings pulled to extricate worries stress sliding away.
Akira Mitake's third tune on the album Spectrum is far more percussion based, slow beats and long tonalities, perfect for some post gong bath chill out.
Mindscape by Gil Melle wakes things up slightly, ethereal visions, pulsing wobbles crashing waves, Blue Notes calmest offerings fresh thoughts percolating.
Italian Library band Gruppo Sound then take us on a journey to African Interlude II slow tribal drumming shakers moving across the speakers towards the swaying trees, Snakes slivering slowly away.
The album closes with Shipping Out by Ferris Wheel which is an old yet old traditional way of travelling through the ambient soundscape of the Venezuelan garbage truck route this was the advert music for, oh to have our rubbish collected to this as those cans get lifted in with the cymbals, sirens follow them around, flashing lights a sonic dark terrain.
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