In disregard of the assumption that music should have structured ´developement´that the listener can follow, The Alchemy of Happiness opens up a specific area of the subconscious that is at once cleansing and deeply satisfying. A rare collaboration of time-honoured Ambient philosophers Klaus Wiese and Al Gromer Khan.
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NIGHTTIDES
Host - Renee Blanche
Generosity of spirit prevails in the Night Tides audience on this edition of the journey, as Renee' features the new release "The Alchemy of Happiness" by Al Gromer Khan & Klaus Wiese.
The Alchemy Of Happiness
A holoaccustic invironment with heterogenic events. The state of happiness in question becomes specific and more regular as it occurs.
„If you do not know where to go stay where you are and don´t make any noise.“
Paul Bowles
Composed and recorded by Al Gromer Khan Produced and advised by Klaus Wiese
Cover illustration: ´Morning on Cape Cod´
by Edward Hopper. Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.. By kind permission.
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BENEFIT FROM MY TIRELESS SEARCH FOR THE CUTTING EDGE.
These are not necessarily VSA or Electronica reviews, but passing comments on what Darv is listening to NOW.
2-16-08
Alchemy Of Happiness
Al Gromer Khan & Klaus Wiese
Tea Time Music, 2006
FORTUITOUS MEETING OF MYSTICAL MINDS
HOW this disc got past me, i don't know! it appears to be out there for forty bucks and must have been a very limited pressing. it is an hour long meditative environment perhaps related to Khan's "Almond Blossom Day" and, thence, to Eno's illustrious "Thursday Afternoon." like these other two recordings, "Alchemy of Happiness" is a completely blissful immersive environment that i could only compare to drinking a fine wine laced with hash oil and opium whilst lounging
in a jacuzzi filled with rose water and burning nag champa or sandalwood incense drifting in the air. this would be the meditation where one succeeds in drawing the amrita, the heavenly nectar, from the center of one's head and suddenly fulfilling one's destiny with the heady aroma,the ecstasy of Total Presence.
a luscious gaseous background intertwined by Khan's delicate and ultrasensitive sitar work and gentle acoustic piano notes dropping like drops of crystalline water. the entirety is supported by airy voice work and understated yet ecstatic synthesis.
one often wonders what miracles would occur if two Ultimate mystical music masters like Al Gromer Khan and Klaus Wiese -- each of whom has produced an impressive body of meditative and spiritual musics -- were to collaborate to produce something Divine.
the short answer is: they fit together just like one thought they would! aficionadoes of either artist are well-advised to obtain this recording forthwith.
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