Various - A Magical Journey

Overall I really enjoy owning this album. It's been in my CD-Player for many months. And it has helped me through trips,
flips and hip’s =) .. My conclusion must be that it's a great chilled compilation with many fantastic psychedelic tracks. But I also feel that the sleeve picture gives me the wrong impression because it indicates that this is an eastern and spiritual compilation which it's not - Except for the contributions by Cell and Terra Nine. The title of this album is A Magical Journey and I agree with all of my heart. It's a compilation with great tracks and over all a fantastic feeling. But I feel that the person, who compiled this compilation, didn’t really do a great job. Some of the tracks are just wrong for this album and the order of the tracks could be nicely rearranged to make it sound more in flow. Are you searching for a mind blowing, peaceful and very psychedelic compilation, I say go and order it at once because I’ve had many enjoyable moments with this compilation and I'm sure you will to. Recommended!

I really enjoyed this compilation at first, had to rearrange the tracks and dump couple of them, but rest were just fine. Now I heard this at a friends place and must say that it sounds quite boring, there's hardly any tracks here that are 'magical' in any way. The only track to take you on a journey is Derangos An Ancient Tale, their first downtempo track. It's like dwarfs meeting at a foggy swamp at midnight to create utterly beautiful, yet dark music.

Around the world in a daze!

Up until know we all thought that Ajana was just a town in Western Australia – but now it’s also a record label. The chilled downbeat/experimental outlet of Germany’s Trishula Records… A record label with an impressive quality level – and now label boss Rudra is getting into downbeat stuff too… Brilliant! Let’s begin our journey and hope it becomes as magical as promised…

The journey is over! And though it was a little bumpy, it was very enjoyable… Creating the perfect flow is always a difficult task when compiling tracks from different artists… And I can’t say that Ajana succeeded 100% in that – the flow is a little off at certain places here…I would have rearranged the tracks to ensure an even tighter flow, but that’s really the only point of criticism I have for this compilation… I’m actually pretty impressed!

The quality level is very, very high… Much higher than I had expected… There is an abundance of great tracks and even the less-great tracks are pretty good… The cover art fits the music, and all in all this chill compilation is a real winner… Well done Ajana! I’m eagerly looking forward to the Frechbax and Capsula debut albums… In the meantime I will not hesitate to recommend this album to fans of experimental chill-out and dubby ambient… Enjoy!

Favourites: 1(!!), 2, 4, 6, 8, 10