Autumn's Apple by Darshan Ambient

With the release of ‘Autumn's Apple’ on the Lotuspike label, Darshan Ambient have created an engaging collection of tunes well suited for cool lounges and mornings after the night before. It's a fine example of chilled elegance and it's fast become one of my favourite releases of the year.

From start to finish, ‘Autumn's Apple’ is a delight both sonically and emotionally. One can't help but be drawn into it's charms. From the gradual build of pads and tones that blend together to create a slow melody underscored by cool beatz in opener ‘Azure Day’, through the elegant grooves of ‘Rain Parade’ where revolving chimes interplay with minimal piano, to the closing track ‘Man in the Window’ which employs wooden percussion and vocals offset by a descending progression. Tones ebb and flow throughout the soundfield, musical phrases loop in and around themselves to create a latticework of woven beauty, and melodies both simple and complex play throughout the disc in a delicate yet groovy way while oblique motion plays underneath it all. Everything is all so carefully planned, so intricately crafted, so intimately related. It's all truly blissful.

I love an album that fits in nicely with the slow sort of waking that comes on Sunday mornings, the kind of waking where you drift in and out of reality, one foot each in the dream- and material-worlds. ‘Autumn's Apple’ is a perfect disc for that kind of duality, a perfect disc to straddle that kind of consciousness.
- ambientvisions.com



"a brilliant recording...I highly recommend the disc"
- Bill Binkelman, Wind and Wire


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Michael Allison is an American singer, musician and composer. In 1992 after several years as bassist, guitarist and vocalist for groups like Nona Hendryx & Zero Cool, Richard Hell And The Voidoids, China Shop and Empty House he began a successful solo career.
In 2008 his CD From Pale Hands To Weary Skies won Best Ambient Album for the NAR Lifestyle Music Awards.

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