Michael Neil Trust (Download CDR) 7 tracks / 53.41 mins Play Sample:   56K Dialup   Broadband Download Sample:   500K   1.5Mb (Excerpt from track(s) 'Resting Place') Please go to the Store to buy this item.

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Rapid Piano notes launch 'The Pilgrim' in fine style. A faint tinkling sequence joins it then tranquil orchestral pads follow. Choral washes add an ethereal quality. 'The Present Darkness' has a very uneasy ominous beginning. Little touches of sound rise from the speakers like spectres. Then silence. Out of this emerges a sort of calmness but still with a faint feeling that deep down all is not well. Faintly organ type sounds take over. The spectres return and we keep on the too and fro between tranquillity and unease right until the end. 'Resting Place' is suitably warm and comforting. 'The Isolation of Elements' is a beautiful but also rather melancholy number. As it goes on though things become quite uplifting as if the sadness has been shaken off and hope re-emerges.

'White Earth' has the quietest of beginning as if the faintest of winds is blowing across a barren landscape. Gradually the 'gusts' become slightly more prominent. Little melodic touches, quite crystalline in nature, act like a soft snowfall as we continue on our tranquil journey. 'Morning Star' starts with deep dark drones. A tinkling loop provides quite a contrast then sighing pads settle in, occupying the middle ground. All rather sleepy / meditative stuff. 'My Father's Son' is simply gorgeous. Soft melodic symphonic pads wrap around you. Just open your mind and wallow in the beautiful sounds. By the seventh minute a sympathetic sequence emerges adding that extra euphoria and finishes the album on a real high. My favourite track on this set. (DL)

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