Passages, by Ambient Counsel

Passages

by Ambient Counsel

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1.	Clearing Light (Unexcelled Jewel) 06:21	buy track
2.	Everywhere You Go There I Am 06:43	buy track
3.	The Still Turning Point 06:15	buy track
4.	Aurora 05:20	buy track
5.	Half Lizard Brain 06:03	buy track
6.	Setting Sun 05:18	buy track
7.	Lower Sky Goddess 06:59	buy track
8.	Winterscape, Solstice 05:00	buy track
9.	Slowly Dawning 06:53	buy track
10.	Cycles 03:25	buy track

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"Personal healing gifted as intricate audio escapism that embraces its audience – a new project from Darren J Harris (Ambient Counsel) always means a worthy break from the weight of the world, and 'Passages' gorgeously illuminates that truth.

'Clearing Light (Unexcelled Jewel)' is the opening piece of the new full-length album from Tasmanian producer Darren J Harris – a post six-minute realm of binaural-style calm, mellow chimes, and waves of comforting warmth.

After a minute and a half, subtle melody sweeps through, changing the scenery of the mind and elevating the mood just softly.

The extensive ambient tones and breaths of 'Passages' continue to further the soothing effect of the music as the tracks quietly rain through.

'Everywhere You Go There I Am' connects for its inherent sense of unity, the humility of craft aligning with the implications of the title; a lasting trait throughout Darren’s repertoire.

For 'The Still Turning Point', we get a touch of creative intrigue – almost like a conversation between dreamlike entities, echoing through comforting clouds of depth and lightness alike. Humble piano awakens a change in tone for the mid-section – one part of a range of nuances that help give 'Passages' a unique aura.

Following this, 'Aurora' is stunning, suddenly other-worldly in its sparkling sense of distance, electricity, melody, and the complex intertwining of various moments. Increasingly euphoric, 'Aurora' is an easy stand-out for its blending of evocative progression and vast ethereal wonder.

Creative sound-play continues for the long-form freestyle presentation of 'Half Lizard Brain', suddenly characterful and even joyous, fusing humorous effects with natural world fragments – water running, life thriving, topical possibilities lingering.

We then get a sense of weight, distortion and mild darkness for the aptly-titled 'Setting Sun', another variety of sounds and production traits that feel authentically new yet still in keeping with the aims of 'Passages'. 'Lower Sky Goddess' offers a similar continuation of bass-like notes and reverberating depths.

After this, 'Winterscape, Solstice' feels like a delicate blessing, simple keys and possible jazz suggested in the hints of meandering melody and movement. Another highlight but all the more effective for its placement within the collection – an effect carried forward for the deeply meditative 'Slowly Dawning'.

The closing work 'Cycles' adopts a fresh perspective again, quirky tones and a colourful overall presence helping guide the listener through the final implications and ideas of Passages, for a brief yet effective summation of change.

An essential pause for the fast-paced world, finely-crafted with equal parts precision and emotional understanding – 'Passages', when played at volume to replace the sound of the external world, is a healing dream to delve into.

Stunning album, a real gift to let play this week."

July 13, 2023
Rebecca Cullen
Founder and Editor
Stereo Stickman

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released August 7, 2023

Produced by Slias Farm.

Mastered by Barry Gardner, Safe and Sound Mastering, London.

Special thanks to Sid Kidman, Andrew Harris, Scott Raylor, Philip Wood, Liisa Dawson, Anton Harris.

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Darren J Harris TAS, Australia

Ambient electronic musician from Deloraine, Tasmaniia.

"Ambient music is an opportunity for inner exploration and discovery, an opportunity to let go and drift, to transcend or dissolve, for your whole being to be illuminated and float as a momentary here and now presence without linear boundaries." ... more

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