Adham Shaikh - Realignment

Oh man oh man, this is like the *best* ambient album you never heard of. This stuff is so tripped out, but in a soothing, relaxing, centering kind of way; not a weirded out kind of way.

But also, this whole piece was *way* ahead of its time, yet also has flavors from the very bedrock of ambient, such as Tangerine Dream's Phaedra and even Zeit, and I even detected some flavors from 80s New Age spacemusic.

Even first track, which is a perkier, dancey number, was pretty cutting edge, with lots of intricate melodic bleeping that was quite remarkable for 1993, and still damn good today.

This is the perfect, I mean PERFECT chill album to actually use for the purpose of chilling, for coming down from the energy of a night filled with, say, highly driven Goa.

For God's sake, just get it, and check out Adham's other stuff too.