Mournful ambient electronics with a slow grace, drifting through a world of remembrances, an endless stream of stirring reflections.

[Color-in-color vinyl: dark green in crystal clear]

1992's Terrace of Memories is ambient minimalism at its best. It's an organic electronic album of longing and gentle melancholia. Sam Rosenthal (Black Tape For A Blue Girl's founder/synthesist, then based in Los Angeles) and Dirk Serries (then recording under the moniker vidnaObmana in Belgium) blended their atmospheres and somber contemplative electronics on this timeless album filled with lush, dark and beautiful impressions. The swelling deep waves of the five tracks suggest memories of more pleasant times lost forever in the cold, lifeless present. Obmana's icy and isolating textures are beautifully contrasted by Rosenthal's warmer synthetic presence. It's a blissful, slowly spinning environment creating a dreamlike, surreal universe for contemplative rainy or winter nights. Remastered by Serries, the music is appropriately mournful with a slow grace, drifting through a world of remembrances, an endless stream of stirring reflections.

• 2024 remaster by Dirk Serries, taken from original DAT mixes

• Limited edition of 250 LPs.

• Color-in-color vinyl: dark green in crystal clear. With a credit insert.

• Their only collaboration: organic ambient and gentle melancholic minimalism

OndaRock Italy writes: 'The first of the five tracks in the setlist, 'These Ancient Halls,' is the door through which you enter a mystical universe: a dark and threatening siren marks the time, while a drone at higher frequencies silently begins to grow, announcing a cascade of blinding light. The technique used for mixing is that of superimposing sound events: starting from silence, then dosing the sounds slowly, layer upon layer, to finally build small ambient symphonies, which in turn dissolve among carpets of opalescent sinusoids like benches of fog.'

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Track Listing

• These Ancient Halls (2024 remaster)
• Dark Mist, Rain (2024 remaster)
• Terrace of Memories (2024 remaster)
• From Within the Cold (a fragment) (2024 remaster)
• Of Silent Crossings (2024 remaster)

Additional Details

Label: Projekt

Genre: New Age

Run Time: 42:26 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 06/21/24

UPC: 617026041414