"This album hits it right on the nail." -EXPOSE A timeless new release from an outstanding, fresh Swedish talent, Autumn Continent is a superbly crafted blend of ambient and electronic downtempo environments. Provocative... more » but not intimidating, subterranean explorations are balanced with a sense of light from an otherworldly perspective. Between Interval has created an organic atmosphere that is accessible and thoughtful without the clichés of modern electronic music. Previous release, Secret Observatory, hailed as a top pick ambient release and selected by Amazon.com?s New Age Editor as the Best of 2005.« less
"This album hits it right on the nail." -EXPOSE A timeless new release from an outstanding, fresh Swedish talent, Autumn Continent is a superbly crafted blend of ambient and electronic downtempo environments. Provocative but not intimidating, subterranean explorations are balanced with a sense of light from an otherworldly perspective. Between Interval has created an organic atmosphere that is accessible and thoughtful without the clichés of modern electronic music. Previous release, Secret Observatory, hailed as a top pick ambient release and selected by Amazon.com?s New Age Editor as the Best of 2005.
CD Reviews
Isolated Ambience
Rebecca Johnson | Washington State | 02/06/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Sublime, relaxing layers of sound sweep over you like the last warm breezes at the end of summer, rustling a few leaves. Spacious worlds warm into a delicate isolated ambience. This is an album to listen to when you are spending the night in a contemplative mood. Within the approaching silence there is a crisp hint of ice in the air.
At times "Hidden Wastelands" seems to almost disappear and then it emerges in a silky tribal infusion that leads to a sensuous warm soothing trance trajectory.
"The Tides of Time" draws you deeply into this album, saturating your consciousness with a deep sigh of peace. "Passageway" shimmers with long forgotten dreams and then awakens into new discoveries with a dark ambient wave and hints of falling stars.
The subtle pulsing energies in "Early Life Remainings" has a delicate hint of passion that breaks free into rhythmically sensual mood. The next three tracks follow this lead but mellow into warm rapturous infusions of intoxicating dreams. "Atrium" is a moody haze while "Autumn Continent 2" seems to embody a wistful longing. The mood is one of being completely alone and completely connected, as if your soul is wandering far away and has found peace.
"Between Interval" is the type of music you listen to deep into the night or while sinking into warm water or as you fall into dreams. This is relaxing music that still holds within its power an exciting revelatory element, the type that speaks softly of artistic elegance all while leaving you in a state of awe at the musical mastery.
~The Rebecca Review
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Superb CD
D.M.K | Las Vegas, Nevada United States | 08/28/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I really loved the first CD, Secret Observetory, but this CD is just as good if not better. It creates a deep theta type trance and is super relaxing, yet remains very interesting. A great CD to use with mind machines or alone. As good as any Steve Roach or Robert Rich work. Excellent CD."
Pure quality
A Bloke | London, England | 11/05/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I had bought the previous disc, Secret Observatory a few months ago and thought I'd give this one a go, seeing as I approved of the previous. It turns out I like this one even better. Eerie, flowing, dreamy, oddly quirky yet serene. This really is a must for any drifting ambient collector's stack of faves. I love it. It moves, it bubbles, it dances and sails effortlessly without being contrived or laboured. It is, of course, so smooth that is sort of defies description, being as it is, meditative and atmospheric in nature. Look, just put yer money down and buy it. It really is fantastic. How do you know that your taste is similar to mine? Well, you'll have to risk it. This is a highly hypnotic disc, assembled by a master who apparently knows exactly how to shape a soundscape. It's misty, autumnal and comes out at dawn and dusk to beguile you with beauty."
Superb
Thomas D. Gulch | Pennsauken, New Jersey United States | 09/30/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is the most perfect realization of electronic music that i have had the good grace to encounter in the forty years i have dabbled in electronic music. it is as if a culmination of klaus Schulze, tangerine dream, Vir Unis, and oophoi all merged into a completely new music that has found it's expression by Stefan Jönsson. Beautiful, gorgeous swells, delicate sequences with inventive, perfectly timed melodies - this music makes the soul swell. brilliant!"
Track Listings (10) - Disc #1