| Releases - Solowork > Dreamresources |
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| Title: |
Dreamresources |
| Releasedate: |
2002 |
| Label: |
Neuronium Record, Spain |
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CD |
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| All music composed, performed and
produced by Amir Baghiri 2001-2002. Recorded, edited and mixed at the BlueBox, Lemgo,
Germany, by Amir Baghiri. Concept by Amir Baghiri & Gabriele von Hardenberg. Published
by Neuronium Records, Spain 2002. Final editing and digital mastering by Jeremy Arenberg
and Amir Baghiri at Ambience 1, Bielefeld-NRW. Artwork & complete design of booklet by
Michel Huygen. |
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| Amir Baghiri:
additive FM and analogue synthesizers, distant powerslide & panjab clay flute, ney and
ocarinas, persian tombak & frame drums, percussion programming, multidimensional
ambient and groove creation, tibetan gongs and various chimes, stones & waters,
processor programming, processed subliminal nature sound and distant guitars, various
shakers, rainstick and some forgotten objects! |
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| This album is dedicated to my
children. |
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Review 1:
Like so many electronic ambient artists, Amir Baghiri keeps churning out the releases
one after another. His latest work tackles one of the least understood phenomenon in our
world, the world of dreams and sleep. And on top of that, trying to portray the whole
feeling just in music is a feat in itself. However, succeeding where so many others have
failed, in my opinion, he manages to tap into the sound that maybe our unconscious mind
can listen to while we're asleep.
I want to go beyond or maybe not try to approach the whole underlying concept of this
work, and just speak from one listening to it as nice ambient music. In my opinion,
ambient music should create a relaxing ambience, one in which you can meditate, drift away
or fall asleep to. This album is great in this way. After the first track that includes
some hypnotic tribal rhythms, the music then ebbs and sways in and out through different
sounds that gradually become less and less obtrusive.
Because of the nature of this work, no single track really stands out from the others, but
each long mystical track blends well with the other. Finally, it all comes to a close as
it slowly fades to silence.
© Jacob Bogedahl (http://www.gothicparadise.com/amir.htm)
Review 2:
If your own resources are lacking, Amir Baghiri is here to provide potent fodder for
dreams of any type... day or night, Dreamresources emits lustrous ambiance of the highest
calib
The Dreamgate swings open into a primitive, beat-pummeled land where encroaching mists set
the sky alight and... dogs bark? That particularly beaty realm is abandoned in favor of
steamier abstractions, like the boiling gleams and shadows of A secret place; stunningly
vague atmospheres swirl in varying viscocities. Equally as lovely (and intriguingly
formless) are the vaporous currents of Lucid phantom ... and pretty much each of the
remaining pieces!
As its title implies, Any colour you wish gives your imagination plenty of options; go
wherever you want on these silken streams... is it like slow-motion cloudsurfing? Swimming
through luminous jello? Uphill skiing on some otherworldly slope? Going fetal in warm
embryonic fluids? Compelling Distant darkland hints at roughness, as faint rumbles scrape
the otherwise-preternaturally-serene environments.
See the above descriptions and stretch them into a longer piece; the eighth track, The
fifth key (16:14), unlocks even more-expansive soundscenes where barely-tangible drones
whisper in longform sky-tidal passages, occasionally accented with starshine sparkles. The
final flows (and ebbs) of Horama (3:57) are awash with luxurious pacing and
incomprehensible beauty... so fine!
With synthesizers and restrained usage of a host of other (hardly recognizable)
instruments, Amir Baghiri (with help from family and friends) spins near-nothingess into
amazing amounts of wondrously oblique ephemera. Clocking in at over 77 minutes,
Dreamresources makes for must-experience listening, and has graced many of my midnights...
A+
A wonderful release.
AmbiEntrance © 2002-1997 by
David J Opdyke
Review 3:
Dreamresources has been released on September 21 before his impressive concert at
E-Live 2002 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. In that concert Amir proved again to belong to
the top of ambient artists, what was heard afterwards in the comments of the audience.
Dreamresources begins with a very good tribal piece, after track one you dream your dreams
in the very relaxing pieces that follow.
© Nic Goederond
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