Making good on my promise/threat of writing again today, here’s my review of a new addition to my digital collection of music. Astral Projection is a project comprised of two guys hailing from Israel. Trance music acts are not common to that area, so it makes sense that these guys imbue this genre of music with a sound very distinctive from their contemporaries.
The album opens up with the title track, the shortest at just over six minutes long, beginning with some background noise and a recording of a man reciting a prayer on behalf of his fellow man. It takes off from there into steady beats, hypnotic melodies and reworkings of the sampled prayer. “Chaos” is next, offering electronic bliss that’s hard to describe. The rest of the album is much of the same, with a lot of good melodies and steady beats. However, having listened to their earlier work in the album “Another World”, this doesn’t qualify as their best work. That’s not to say that “Amen” sucks; it is in fact a piece of work worthy of being called good trance. Good trance meaning that the music really takes you to a happy place in your mind (sounds trippy, doesn’t it?) I may review “Another World” on a later date, but the earlier album sports a few pieces that have spectacular, climactic endings which “Amen”s songs are sorely missing.
My favorite tracks on this are “Chaos”, “Infinte Justice”, “Heaven’s Gate”, the soothing and swirling “Electric Blue” and the hard-edged “1,000,000 Years From Today”. The other songs are great for background music while working out or, well, doing any work at all.
Most people who know me know that my musical tastes are mainly Metal. As (hopefully) everyone knows, however, if you listen to one style all the time, you tend to grow stagnant and become inflexible to listening to anything new. This also, I believe, has an effect on overall thinking as well. Always take the time to explore out of your normal bounds; you never know what you may actually find that you like!
