Falling Light, by Darshan Ambient

Falling Light

by Darshan Ambient

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valsmountain Like so many of Darshan’s CDs, this CD takes you on a remarkable, mystical musical journey. I love the guitar playing. If you haven’t listened to this CD, take a moment & indulge. Falling Light is breathtakingly beautiful. These compositions really capture the dawning of the new decade in a mysterious and gentle way. A wonderful, diverse collection of songs that have some old school grooves tucked neatly in there. Overall, it maintains an uplifting & relaxing feel. 🌺 Favorite track: Falling Light.

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	1.	Falling Light 06:07
	2.	Small Blue Ones 06:09
	3.	A Boat Beneath A Sunny Sky 04:59
	4.	Out To Sea 05:08
	5.	Seconds Thoughts 03:50
	6.	The Night Coming Home To Sleep 03:57
	7.	Clothed In Wakefulness 04:19
	8.	Who Will Answer 03:57
	9.	To Look At In Winter 04:34
	10.	The Immense Window 07:02
	11.	Water For Horses 06:59
	12.	Forgotten Sky 03:54

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Falling Light is the fifth inspired instrumental release on the Lotuspike imprint by award-winning ambient artist Darshan Ambient (aka American-born multi-instrumentalist and composer Michael Allison). The trademark hypnotic and heartfelt style that has come to define all Darshan Ambient releases is certainly present here in the skillful use of multi-layered percussion, synth textures, bass, and guitar grooves. Allison’s unmistakeable compositional style is in top form, delivering thoughtful melodic phrases and themes with a familiar atmosphere.

Picking up where 2011’s Dream In Blue left off, which skillfully straddled a delicate musical line between ambient and jazz, Falling Light finds Allison moving more towards an almost ambient Americana sound at times. The deliberate use of lap steel and slide guitars blended with synth textures that seem to stretch to the horizon, brings to mind visions of wide open spaces, big skies and endless possibilities. As Allison says, “It’s very visual. There are some beautiful lap steel guitar sounds that I used a little on the last album, but wanted to completely feature on this one; they add a gorgeous twang to some of the tracks. There are a few tracks dominated by the use of piano, but most have the wonderful sound of the lap steel/slide guitar — very dreamy.”

Michael Allison effortlessly crosses many musical borders journeying throughout this remarkable Darshan Ambient recording; From the opening jazz-tinged title track, the melancholy Mark Isham-esque trumpet of “Small Blue Ones,” the hypnotic groove that surfaces in the midst of “A Boat Beneath A Sunny Sky,” the soul-searching depth of “The Immense Window,” to the closing classically-inspired choral fugue that is “Forgotten Sky.” With it’s warm washes of ambient color and elegant melodic passages, Falling Light blazes a trail into the wondrous hues of an ambient Americana sunset.

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"a superb, amazingly constructed disc by a very, very talented musician"
- Hypnagogue

"This is great music that will shake your emotions"
- Synth & Sequences

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released September 11, 2012

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Michael Allison is an American singer, musician and composer. In 1992 after several years as bassist, guitarist and vocalist for groups like Nona Hendryx & Zero Cool, Richard Hell And The Voidoids, China Shop and Empty House he began a successful solo career.
In 2008 his CD From Pale Hands To Weary Skies won Best Ambient Album for the NAR Lifestyle Music Awards. ... more

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