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Slanted and Recanted | Plainsboro, New Jersey | 07/28/2007

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This album is just a long drone, (one 65-minute track).

Do I really need another album like that in the krautrock vein? I mean if I want good droney stuff I'd much rather get a Klaus Schulze album than this dull-ish stuff. OR, while we're on the subject, what's wrong with classical? A Mozart symphony soens the same job for me as ART and it's a heck-of-a lot more accomplished musically (sorry for being snarky). Heck, even Ash Ra Tempel is nicer. A.R.T. is the Jandek of Psychadelic right now."

Windham Hill this ain't

John L Murphy | Los Angeles | 08/17/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"More of the same, not that that's necessarily a bad thing for those of us who like AMT, even if I am not able to keep up with let alone afford the neverending array of albums they release incessantly. It starts out soft, as you'd expect from their typical patterns, trading off a more traditional chant with a grunting, gutteral vocal. It builds momentum, crests into a noisier battle of instruments, and then detours a bit into a sax riff-- which I found predictable-- then a female vocal interlude.After the climactic uproar, it takes you down, to end with a happy-go-lucky singalong of the a capella chant in non-typical fashion.



The consistency of AMT may be for some their strength and for others their weakness. They deliver solid, demanding, and alternately carefree and dense musical backdrops. The foreground? You might use this if you're the type of listener wanting an adventurous alternative to the New Age section, under which genre iTunes had classified this CD when I uploaded it!



Perhaps it's meditation mood setting for the post-punk, neo-psychedelic era. Based on a Buddhist mantra, it does conjure up visions of hungry ghosts, fierce deities, and epic battles as well as harmony, peace, and fulfillment. All the emotions, in this hour-long suite, may be included."

Lost in the drone?

danmmr | Bay Area, United States | 04/13/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"OK -- this isn't really drone music (see Andrew Chalk for a wonderful drone experience) but the music here takes parts of the drone aesthetic and creates a nice psychedelic ride. One long track that is exploratory and somehow relaxing. It just works. AMT release a lot of music and not all of it is worth buying. However, this one is and is one of their must haves. For fans of real psych rock.



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