Jim Ottaway - Orion.txt
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Album: Orion
Artist: Jim Ottaway
Year: 2008 (this is the 2016 online version)
Genre / Style: Electronic / New Age / Dark Ambient / Space
DESCRIPTION
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After a number of predominantly spacey synth music CD's, this new album is... well, errrr... a spacey synth music CD. So, bearing in mind there's tons of these things around and that, these days, I'm only reviewing the ones that really move me, what is it about this one that achieves its aim? Well, for a start, evident right from the opening track, he's finally got the right mix of depth of texture allied to a warm, rich soundscape and, most importantly, an ever shifting pattern of flowing layers of cosmic bliss, all delivered with a deeply felt sense of emotion, something that many such sound-sculpting efforts, fail to provide. Seven and half minutes glide by in a heartbeat, and at no time are you looking down at the floor or staring up at the ceiling wondering when things will develop.
Thematically, if you could call it that, the next six and half minute track, continues in this vein, as it feels like one fourteen minute piece that's opened up before you. The near ten minute 'Stellar Wind' adds an almost early Tangerine Dream styled bubbling synth undercurrent, something that in the early seventies would have developed into a sequencer rhythm but here in Ottaway's hands, remains the foundation for some gorgeous cosmic explorations, all performed slowly but always evolving and never standing still. It's truly got what many call an "analogue warmth" to it, but one that seems to stand above many others in its field. Just a tad short of fourteen minutes, 'Frozen Star' continues in this vein, seriously atmospheric, seriously cosmic, but now with more what you'd call "leading" soundscapes upfront, which imply melody but don't actually provide it, again something that stops it being a boring piece of wandering aimlessness on the one hand, or overtly twee and frightful, on the other.
With four further tracks on the album between seven and ten minutes apiece, all mining this rich seam of cosmic bliss, it's consistent, it delivers what it promises, it's a worthy addition to any space synth music collection, it's great to listen to when you just want to chill out to something atmospheric or have on as background while you're writing your next novel or planning the bathroom. In short, recommended!
Andy Garibaldi, Dead Earnest (Dundee, Scotland, UK) 2008 ; http://jimottaway.com/reviews.html
FILE INFORMATION
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Number of Tracks: 8
Total Duration: 1:13:19
Total Size: 168 MBs (including scans, m3u, and txt)
Parity Archive: Yes, 7%
Ripped By: NMR
Files Created on: NMR
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Encoded At: 320k CBR / 44.1 KHz
ID3 Tags: Yes
TXT Created: 28 October 2018
Tracklist
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01) Aquila
02) Upsilon Andromedae
03) Steller Wind
04) Frozen Star
05) Orion
06) Aphelion
07) Space
08) Voice of Pleiades
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