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SPECTRAL SHIPS Brilliant! "The Serpentine Arcade" hooks your attention from the very beginning of this album with a very hypnotic loop leading into an aural journey that I found especially intellectual and utterly riveting. In this soundscape Richard uses a rich palette of dark tonal qualities that inspire both the mood and image of ghostly, silent ships gliding across inky, glassine waters while seabirds wing from transparent masts to deck railings and one may hear the echo of their calls as they search the deep for food in vain effort. Mummers voices and wavering images of those watery elementals, the undines, torment the unwary with their siren songs, and there is a sense of something menacing skulking within the silent sea. A pulse of thunder is heard and a flash of lightening turns the world into myriad shades of aquamarine. The universe breathes a gasping sigh and a breeze whispers across the unmoving sails. A voice comes forth from the midnight world whispering mystical truths into the mind and consciousness of the awakened ones on many levels. Suddenly, there is an eerie premonition of doom should the message be ignored. The Spectral Ships is a magnificent, brilliantly inspired, and richly conceived journey into time beyond time.
Kathleen
Nelson, PhD |