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The first track is very calm and delicate - woodwind style sounds over a deep subtle background. Clever use of the stereo image gives a great sense of space and emptiness, and lurking down faintly in the mix are barely audible bits of sampled speech. It's called 'Silence', which is a bit weird, but is very good.
Next up, 'From Within'. Again a calm piece, with delicate piano over shifting chords, and brief monastic chanting.
In 'Prythm', (?!), things remain interesting - Rainbow Serpent are very good at detailed backgrounds, that reward listening with attention. A harp like instrument arrives with a delicate melody, before lower register sequences, and sweeps of phased noise arrive. The amount of variety and development within tracks is very impressive.
The title track seems an odd choice to name the album after - it's dominated by rapid near random sounding bursts of notes, rather harpsichord like. A bit disappointing, not least because it spoils the mood established by earlier tracks.
But 'trancelation' puts things back on track nicely again, and by 'In high spirits' we have rapid burblings, and strong chiming melodies. It's a little reminiscent of 'Under the dome', and that can't be bad. Again its out of keeping with the rest of the album, but on this occasion it works well.
'Virtual emotion' is back in near ambient territory, with a nice long slowly developing track, a simple but a memorable sequence underpinning the other sounds. The CD ends with 'Mental Mosaic', and its much better than the first 'Mosaic' track.
The strengths of this CD are the subtle but detailed sound on most tracks, they develop well, and have a good sense of space. The more up-tempo parts work much less well for me, but fortunately these do not dominate .
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