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PARSONS, DAVID — Chakra
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Chakra is David's third album on gterma. The album carves and weaves its way through the mysteries surrounding the seven Chakras starting at the crown and working towards the foundation. Headphones strongly recommended.
https://gterma.bandcamp.com/album/chakra
"After Puja and Stupa, Chakra is the third album by New Zealand-based composer David Parsons on the Swedish G-terma label.
This time around, the tracks on Chakra were very much gear-inspired. David purchased a couple of Synthstrom Deluges, a locally made portable synthesizer, sequencer and sampler from Wellington designed for the creation, performance and improvisation of electronic music. This brilliantly designed piece of gear -running on an internal rechargeable battery- offers pretty much unlimited sampling storage and more composing tracks than one would ever need. In addition, they can also control all Davids other hardware and software synths. About 70% of the albums music was created in the outdoors during holiday down south with this portable gear.
It ended up as a 62-minute inner journey (overall a bit more rhythmic than Parsons last releases) of slow progressing, minimal-angled and lush swirling sound waves. These meet up with Davids signature aural Tibetan and Asian flavours as well as some occasional monk chants. Its effect is dreamful, hypnotizing, and immersive and even becomes fulfilling when the intrinsic power trail of the 10-minute delight Manipura washes over the listener. Thereafter, Davids takes his listeners to great heights with the atmospheric, minimalist painting Svadhisthana (moving into Himalayas pure soundwaves), then rounds out the fascinating journey beautifully with the rhythmic-spiced, intense Muladhara.
The excellently mastered Chakra is a winner on all fronts making a great addition to Parsons discography. Headphone-listening is strongly recommended." [Sonic Immersion]
https://gterma.bandcamp.com/album/chakra
"After Puja and Stupa, Chakra is the third album by New Zealand-based composer David Parsons on the Swedish G-terma label.
This time around, the tracks on Chakra were very much gear-inspired. David purchased a couple of Synthstrom Deluges, a locally made portable synthesizer, sequencer and sampler from Wellington designed for the creation, performance and improvisation of electronic music. This brilliantly designed piece of gear -running on an internal rechargeable battery- offers pretty much unlimited sampling storage and more composing tracks than one would ever need. In addition, they can also control all Davids other hardware and software synths. About 70% of the albums music was created in the outdoors during holiday down south with this portable gear.
It ended up as a 62-minute inner journey (overall a bit more rhythmic than Parsons last releases) of slow progressing, minimal-angled and lush swirling sound waves. These meet up with Davids signature aural Tibetan and Asian flavours as well as some occasional monk chants. Its effect is dreamful, hypnotizing, and immersive and even becomes fulfilling when the intrinsic power trail of the 10-minute delight Manipura washes over the listener. Thereafter, Davids takes his listeners to great heights with the atmospheric, minimalist painting Svadhisthana (moving into Himalayas pure soundwaves), then rounds out the fascinating journey beautifully with the rhythmic-spiced, intense Muladhara.
The excellently mastered Chakra is a winner on all fronts making a great addition to Parsons discography. Headphone-listening is strongly recommended." [Sonic Immersion]