Completely surprising knowing this music is coming from the sunny Florida. Everywhere darker sides are encountered, and those we find here. A very deep dark ambient album, carefully mastered, giving a thick layer of moods with sparse sunny openings. Agree with jamengods view on the great tracks 1,4 and 5. Don't have much problems with the reverb in 2 and 3, who give a dense dark feeling, making it easy to imagine a movie bout zombielike slow moving through heavy cloudy lost shores.The superb last track brings a relief at the end, knowing you live on a place not that bad. You've seen an impressive movie and you're out again.....

C'est une musique d'ambiance assez facile d'accès, l'effet est assez immédiat. Évidemment, il ne faut pas être du genre à regarder le doigt quand on vous montre Dieu (je ne suis pas catho, c'est l'expression) Le titre de cet album, d'après son historique, pourrait être «Bleu comme l'Enfer», ça dirait tout à mon avis. Sur la longueur, ça peut paraître un peu égal; il faut se laisser porter et ne pas écouter trop précisément; ainsi, on peut être très agréablement surpris. On peut trouver God's Highway un peu vain et vouloir du Red Tide plus souvent. Dredging the Swamp : De belles nappes sonores, des effets atmosphériques et des éclats mystérieux. C'est la prestation habituelle du genre. Where Has the Sun Gone : Tout est en écho avec tout, tout en gardant contraste et variété. Un régal Caught in the Undertow : Idem, mais n'est-il pas nécessaire de procéder autrement maintenant ? C'est superbe tout de même. Red Tide : voilà qui tranche avec le début, superbe. God's Highway : Il faut être patient car des instruments très identifiables viennent. Je ne sais pas si c'est un fait suffisant; c'est un titre très sobre. Gator Bait : Au début, il y a des moments assez vertigineux, par alternance de sons envahissants et percutants, des souffles humains ou animaux aussi. C'est certainement plus expressif pour les auditeurs les plus sceptiques.

A Dark, Ambient,spooky, masterfully done,spacey, spooky, movie type sound track. Wow, made the hairs on the back of my neck, stand up at times. Listen to this one your own, in the dark, and feel the full force of this great atmospheric music grab you.......

Stunning, beautifully dark atmospherics from the very start. From Dredging the Swamp onwards I am immersed in wonderfully controlled shadow ambience. Where Has the Sun Gone is a fine little epic musical adventure into cold environments, knowing that if such a star, so essential to our survival were to vanish, we wouldn't even be considering such a question. We would probably be long gone, floating in the aether aimlessly. At best wondering as we wander. Nice touches that emphasise such finality. Then imagine those cold tendrils of icy deep water curling round you, pulling you under into an alien environment, where the lack of air and temperature slowly and softly benumb your senses and eventually your physical ability to survive the plunge into some dark, subaqua crevasse that goes on forever. Drifting downwards for an eternity of as your consciousness peters away slowly. Caught in the Undertow. Red Tide is quite lively because now there is consciousness, as you watch the bloody waves lapping at your feet and the death knell ringing somewhere in the distance. Slowly the realisation of what such a situation entails, a planet bleeding to death. Then, if you are lucky and have not been overwhelmed by that horrific red tide and dragged hopelessly into the denizens of hell, you get to walk God's Highway and even then there is no surety about where you will end up after omnipotent judgement. Is that the pearly gates I can hear, slamming shut forever. Finally, the visceral sense of the wonder of human existence ending up as a piece of food for a magnificent animal from the age of dinosaurs. Prehistory hangs in there, burying sharp teeth into your puny body and tearing you into digestible chunks of flesh. Any meat fit to eat, by hook or by crook. Stop! Don't stand so close to the edge of that red tide...

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