A 73:39 long-form piece with 12 seamless tracks
"Emotionally charged, meditative and just beautiful. Also the pace of the album is just perfect, moving from dense to open space with just the right amount of beauty, tension and emotion."
~ vid [+]A 73:39 long-form piece with 12 seamless tracks
"Emotionally charged, meditative and just beautiful. Also the pace of the album is just perfect, moving from dense to open space with just the right amount of beauty, tension and emotion."
~ vidnaObmana
"Rippling waves of harmonics inducing blissful trance."
~ Larry Derdeyn
"Every remarkable sound on the 70+ minute continuous piece is sourced by his voice. Quiet, calming, and meditative; deeply textured and sublime. Achingly poignant. I'm thinking that some of us will be talking about Jim Cole's brand-new release, The Way Beyond, for a very long time.
I can recall only one other spacemusic release effecting upon me such a profound misty-eyed reaction during my first hearing.
And now that the CD has here been thrice journeyed through, it can be told. I never dreamed "Coalescence" would ever be surpassed as this artist's masterstroke, but in my opinion, it just has."
~ Bill Beck, Spacemusic group list
"In 2002, I wrote about harmonic overtone singer Jim Cole's previous solo work Godspace stating that it was ". . . some of the most superlative ambient music I've ever heard. Surely it will rate in my top three best of the year. It is a work of staggering beauty and nuance, at once improvisational and composed. This disc has such an emotional and spiritual resonance for me; it is as if Cole had tapped into my biorhythms for 74 minutes, occupying my thoughts, and impregnating all activity around me with meaning where before there seemed to be none. This is timeless, important music, and I give it my highest recommendation." It did make it on to my top three list of that year, and I do give it my highest recommendation as one of the finest examples of modern ambient done simply and beautifully, without pretense.
Now I have the opportunity to describe Cole's newest release, The Way Beyond, and I find myself scrabbling at the same phrases I'd written two years ago. I want to warn the reader in advance that I am going to get a little "out there" in this review, but it's the only thing keeping me from gushing uncontrollably about the music. Firstly, this is a vaster work than Cole's previous solo CD--it's comprised of twelve tracks, but each track melds into its successor seam
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