"I'm a professional musician skilled in the Classical Music of Europe and India. For years the first track has mesmerized me. The artist has an impeccable sense of sound placement in this aural landscape. The colors of Raga interspersed with other elements make this a superb recording for those with sensitivity for beauty and spaciousness. It is true that music and vibration go right through us. Rather than high intensity, jarring or blasting volumes this CD vibrates gently and lovingly through the bones and psyche. If only I could remember who gave it to me I would thank him profusely. Enjoy!"
A night journey through a magical land.....
Veggiechiliqueen | 12/15/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Al Gromer Khan's music is a hauntingly beautiful mix of sitar, vocals, and synthesizer that brings to mind night journeys through desert and forest. There is a blend of tension, mystery, sensuality, and beauty that I have never seen matched in spacemusic. The album reminds me a little of German spacemusic composer Nik Tyndall ("Lagoon" on the Hearts of Space label) whose fluid, lighter-than-air melodies evoke the same feelings of peace and wonder that I found here. An excellent album for relaxation or reading.I have to agree that track two is a red herring and does not fit in with the other songs at all. Its tempo, rhythm, and instrumentation are totally different and it breaks the mood of the rest of the album. I don't know if I'd necessarily skip over it, but program it at the end or the beginning instead to keep some form of continuity in the music. Enjoy!"
Boring
Michelle Tobias | MD | 08/28/2002
(1 out of 5 stars)
"Listen to any album by al gromer, there is always one track that he playes his sitar that is usually verey beutiful, but move on to second track and the third and forth and.... it alwayes seemes like he turned the synthesizer on and left the room.depressing boring music.I wish he would forget the synthesizer symphonic sound and play what he playes best. sitar"
The love making CD
C. B Collins Jr. | Atlanta, GA United States | 10/24/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I can hardly believe that I have listened to this CD for 18 years. It is excellent and one of my favorite 'space music' CDs. It could be called meditative, trance inducing, and hypnotic but these terms do not capture a certain sensual sexual play that make these selections great background for relaxing meditation or sense heightened love making. There is a certain sexual energy to the pounding beat of night-club dance music, but this is not that sexual energy at all. This is the sexual energy around a full night of love making and the sustained intensity of being outside oneself and into the world of the other. There is one selection on the CD that does not have this energy, which is not to say that this piece is inferior. However, if you wish to use this CD as background for love making, you may wish to select those 5 selections on the CD that work together to detach the overly active mind from the sensation craving body."