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The Infinity Project "Mystical Experiences"
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Avatar Records in Israel keeps repressing classics. Now they are out
with the classic Mystical Experiences album by The Infinity Project! It was originally released on Blue Room Released (RIP). It is considered to be the first album within the psychedelic chill out genre. It was the beginning of projects like Shpongle etc. Behind this fantastic project was Graham Wood who do the Blowfish project these days, Raja Ram (flute in this album and all the Shpongle albums...) and the genious himself, Simon Posford (Hallucinogen, Shpongle, Younger Brother etc.) The Blue Room version of this album is very rare and hard to get hold of, so thatīs probably the main reason why they have repressed this masterpiece. I have both versions, and there are not much differences between these two. The cover art is a bit different inside. This new version has a poster inside and an extra packing outside the plastic cover. You also get a sticker with this release.
The Infinity Project "Mystical Experiences" Avatar Records 2004
(AVA021)
1. When Sound Becomes Colour
2. Mystical Experiences
3. The Answer
4. High Insert
5. Mortioso
6. Flute Line
7. Flying
8. Blue Aura
9. Alien Patrol
10. Under The Overtones
11. Blue aura (Weird Meeting)
I really like the track titles on this album... They actually describe
the tracks pretty good! This is probably the most mystic sounding, deep chill out album I have ever heard. Floating, deep mystic sounds and beautiful flute all the way. The melodies are all incredible! I think itīs wrong to describe each track one by one, since this is actually a journey. An album you should listen to all the way through in one. They mix in ethnic voices from India etc, Raja plays the flute, Graham do the synths and programming and Mr. Posford is behind the engineering. Together they are simply the best! The Infinity Project released two albums (Feeling Weird on TIP Records 1995 and Mystical Experiences on Blue Room Released 1995).
The Feeling Weird album was only Goa trance, no ambient. They also did the Mystery Of The Yeti project. Later Raja Ram and Simon Posford continued with their Shpongle project, while we didnīt hear much from Graham Wood until last year. Then he suddenly stood on stage at Samothraki Dance Festival in Greece, and opened the entire festival with a great dj sett! Then he released an album under the name Blowfish on Surreal Audio Recordings in Finland. Good to see that he is back.
The version we get here is remastered, but it isnīt actually much
difference. But this is an album everybody should have in their record
collection, so if you didnīt get hold of the Blue Room version, you
should definately grab this one. This is absolutely one of the best ambient albums ever released. Recommended!
PK (shivapks@hotmail.com)
