Na-Koja-Abad - Dreamfall: Veils and Visions
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STYLE Bird song, vaporous drones, shakers and low moans in the style of a traditional Indian male singer open the album. Indeed a carefully balanced richness floods this whole release - there are percussive peripherals: drippings, shiftings, hand drumming and gorgeous rolling rhythms - the drones range from toneless disturbances of air through cloudmass wellings of tone to colourful swells and washes - the beats reverberate in soft depth, in lazy, hypnotising regularity. Na-Koja-Abad employs rattles, frame drums, tinkling rainsticks, sonorous pebbles, sand and shells alongside didgeridoo, flutes, and voices, field recordings and, of course, all manner of electronic texture and sound. Each track has a clearly distinct character - beautiful woolgathering, a touch of eerie solitude, crepuscular reverie - the three pieces working also together to form a powerful suite that will steep your senses in sonic association. MOOD Dreamfall has a wonderful otherworldly quality, shrouded in atmospheric mist, thick with mystery, hanging just on the edge of music so that the listener is drawn into filling in much of the associative imagery. Gentle and lazy yet at the same time darkened by a sense of unease or foreboding. The warmer tones gather in places building a dreaminess, a sense of willing floatation. There is a sense of vast scale to much of the music as though the listener is at the centre of a huge panorama enjoying close-up textural detail surrounded by hazy space. ARTWORK This is a delightful package - the usually attractive graphic design of Na-Koja-Abad is here enhanced by the addition of a four page insert of poetic text and various hand placed items within the jewelcase itself. The cover art is stunning - hazy, dreamy tree silhouettes their roots threaded into lush green soil are dotted with birds frozen in motion. Strong textures and deep tints add to the effect which is carried across to the rear of the package - this time the trees framing the panel - titles running along the earth. Carefully placed into the jewelcase spine itself is an arrangement of delicate twigs bound with thread - this construct continues inside behind the CD with pressed leaves and stalks and coiling tendrils of the thread from the spine. The glossy booklet holds four pages of text printed on plain paper - a story, a description, an accompaniment to the music, a journey, a poem, realisation. A timed tracklist, full gear list, credits and contact information completes the package. OVERALL This limited custom edition is released via Blue Water Records, coming as the sixth full album from Sarajevo based ambient excursionist Muamer Music. For this project Muamer is joined by fellow ambient musician Max Corbacho and Aida Mocevic a vocalist from Bosnia and Herzegovina. The promotional material for the album well explains the purpose of the release "Bordering between the sensual and the mystical, Dreamfall, with its dense atmospherics and evolving drumscapes, is always immersive and immensely evocative". A masterful interweaving of electronic and organic sound, this CD is truly transportational - captivating atmospheres carrying the listener into far off imaginings, engrossing beats lulling and beguiling, a fine balance between ambient space and melodic movement holding the attention whilst at the same time acting as catalyst to distraction. WHO WILL LIKE THIS ALBUM Na-Koja-Abad works within a similar field to Steve Roach and Max Corbacho - if you enjoy lush, emotive ambience carried along on tribal rhythm then this CD is a must. -  Morpheus Music
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posted 09/28/07
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