Pthalo

Blue: Royal blue, sky blue, feeling blue. The ambiguity of blue derives from our karmic ambivalence, the disconnect inherent in our love of life and our simultaneous desire for something more sublime, something rapturous. The beat is 6Hz this time, intended to calm.

Pthalo

Incantata

A call and response: Mysteries abound. Melody rises, falls almost into place but finally remains, an unknown quantity, hovering on the edge of the aural moment. Nothing is defined. Even the beat hangs at a liminal 13Hz. Alpha or beta? Perhaps the point is not to decide, but merely to let it be.

Incantata

Quartz

Opaque and elegant, quartz intensifies healing energies. This one is for clarity and calm: An easy, old-timey banjo waltz enfolding a 3hz beat. Quartal harmony sustains the whole, for another dream effect. But it's sweet dreams this time. Sweet dreams.

Quartz

The Shadowed Paths

The banjo dreams down shadowed paths, through chambered spaces of melody folded in on itself until nothing remains but cumbrous remembrances, spacious harmonics. The beat is 20Hz once again; Dream and awaken.

The Shadowed Paths

Saint Andrews

The first one I really like, and yes it's all banjo. The beat is 5Hz. The tune is decidely creepy - after two weeks of sun worship, it seemed good to head for the shadows. The whole thing puts me in mind of a misty day among the cathedral ruins of Saint Andrews.

Saint Andrews