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Common Ground Encinitas, California
In late 2013, Bill Olien and Gary Johnson, of Resonant Drift fame, approached ambient space music composer Hollan Holmes about a collaboration. Holmes accepted and, in 2014, they began compiling a formidable body of ideas. They narrowed it down to nine tracks, which were carefully refined and mixed. The venerable Robert Rich did the mastering. Holmes then spent 176 hours on the digipak artwork. ... more
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Prayer To The Energy
by Hollan Holmes
supported by 14 fans who also own “Common Ground”
This album had 2 CD,s 2 is very ambient and 1 is full of the mystery of life, There is strong emotion on this album, it is very effective. As with all Hollan's work I feel there is a depth not found in a lot of electronic music. This is a monumental album that flows seamlessly, its truly timeless.
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supported by 13 fans who also own “Common Ground”
You can listen to this as a pleasant wash of background music while you work; as beautiful and as meaningless as sunlight on a painted wall. Or you can focus on it and realise that actually there's a lot going on in the texture and detail of the sound. Steve Roach has made a lot of longform ambient, all of them well worth listening to, but this is one of the very best. A gem from a gem.
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Echo Of Longing
by Max Corbacho
supported by 13 fans who also own “Common Ground”
Noone understands it better than Max, to create such infinite spaces, such deep expanses and such a longing for echoes and answers! Unbelievable! Thank you, Max!!!
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Comical Palliatives for Human Disquiet
by Reader Advisor (Niles Frantz)
As the title implies, these are deep, dense, potent drones that surround and overwhelm, flooding space with sound.
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Calming ambient tones make up this minimalist album from the Brooklyn-based band.
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Deep ambient tracks that feel like swimming down into the ocean, light fading and marvelous new worlds appearing.
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supported by 13 fans who also own “Common Ground”
Normally I go to Steve Roach albums to experience time less linearly, so to speak, but here we have an album that's structured almost like a conventional one, with tracks that are distinct from each other. We get pure ambience, gentle tribal rhythms, and glimpses of piano, all building towards a breathtaking final pair of tracks in which Roach sets aloft a full-throated melodicism that's new to me in his oeuvre.
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