The Gate Of Silence

Superb album from David, very rich atmosphere, indeed a companion of Roach and vidnaObmana. Great relexation, well produced, only little pity is the bit monotonous drumming in track 1, the music can provide its own rhythm at the listener. The tracks following are sheer beauty so please stay tuned. A mental massage is guaranteed. Recommended.

The Gate of Silence is an excellent album for fans of deep, spacey ambient and meditative, textured drones.

I generally prefer my ambient to be beatless, so I was a little less than thrilled by part 1. The ethnic percussion lingers over some very subdued background pads. It seems like an intro to a song that never materializes.

Much more atmospheric than its predecessor, part 2 evokes underground spaces. There are some cavernous echoes and drops of water throughout and sweeping pads come through at a couple of key moments. Very cool.

The third part has more of a hypnotic, minimalist approach, with a synthesizer and piano pattern played throughout. There is enough variety to the ostinato that it doesn't bore, and there are a lot of layers that peek through behind the moving notes.

Part 4 puts me in the same introspective, heightened state that I get from Steve Roach's Immersions. I think it's fairly fast-moving for a long-form soundscape, as it carries a sense of motion within its seemingly still drones. There are lots of sonic flutterings as it builds to a crescendo of waves crashing on a beach. Brilliant!

This is my first experience with the artist's work and it made for a very nice surprise. I'd say that the 2nd and 4th tracks are the strongest. Soundscape enthusiasts may want to skip Part1 on their first listen.

Simply love this. Love the ambience sounds brill in surround.

I love this album! Along with Doc's "Through A Glass Darkly", this is my favourite of all the music I've found on this site so far.

I've been playing this album on repeat while going to sleep over the last week, and I let it keep playing when I wake up so I can actually listen to it a couple of times. For that reason it's the perfect definition of ambient music - you can have it playing in the background for an aesthetic effect, or you can actively listen to it, and either way it is simply beautiful.

The best way I can think of to try to describe this music in words is, imagine you're alone at night on the surface of an alien planet, looking up at a very very different sky to the one we have here.

I like the first three parts best. Part one has some lovely slow percussion, and parts two and three have some sexy warm synth underneath haunting nocturnal sounds.

Yeah. I love this music.

All I could say is this album is wonderful work of art and will cause your mind to wander in a mental
state of calmness.Keep up the the awesome work david,and would love more works like this. =)