Good Ambient Compilation with a wide range of global sounds.

Best track in my opinion: Tarenah, which starts out as an Indian raga, mutates into some Bass Violin/Flutey jazz, and back to the raga and sitar...nice fusion is smooth throughout.

I bought this disc on a whim, and listened to nothing else for a month. Hard fast trance with a very cybermodern feel, most every track had me yearning for the next motif, relishing the expectation.

The album has a sense of play (or should I say foreplay in the case of analogy pussy?) and humor ingrained into it's fabric: Little things, like samples from The Day the Earth Stood Still, to the ommision of one expected beat, making one feel the aural equivilant expecting another step that isn't on top of the stairs.

Composed of fairly complex pieces, most every track has two or three independant themes that contrast and combine quite well as they weave their soundscape.

Interesting piece.
First comes long verbal monologue by a mystical "Lord of the Desert" proclaiming his ubiquity and greatness accompanied by what sounds like perhaps a Dumbek and some light female rythmic chanting and echo on the voice itself. It's a nice stentorian voice, feels like a powerful and robust presence...but looses some effect when he anachronistically announces he is putting visions of feasts and belly dancers in "YO" head...

Voice fades off into a hard trance beat (though the echo is cutoff halfway through the final phrase) with some nice synth strings playing a melody inspired by a an Arabic Maqam, giving a nice non-western feel to the piece.

Minor quibbles aside, it's a good piece, though may be hard to incorporate into a set due to the long monologue, even with the backgrounds' minor resonaces adding feelings of expectation...