The glimmer room's strengths lie in the ability to present supremely melodic structures within a work with such emotional depth. In some passages you are cocooned in a warm luminescence, feeling safe and untouchable as lush choral washes wrap around you. Then the mood changes and you are thrown into an unsettling, barren and misty landscape where you are confronted by the sinister scraping of digital bits and bytes being smashed around a processor. As urgently as it arrives it is gone and you are left floating, clarified in a place of great beauty.

Heralded as the new benchmark for the chill out album, Grey Mirrors is almost a meditation. But every journey is as individual as the listener.

The ambience of the piece has been likened to the long grandiose intros of Pink Floyd with the overpowering Englishness of John Foxx's Cathedral Oceans. While musically comparisons range from Leftfield's Melt, the KLF's Chill Out, to the more chilled tracks from The Future Sound of London. Add to this a sprinkle of sound design from Delia Derbyshire and you will be close to the sound of this unique album.

1. grey mirrors part 1
2. grey mirrors part 2
3. grey mirrors part 3
4. grey mirrors part 4
5. grey mirrors part 5
6. grey mirrors part 6
7. grey mirrors part 7
8. grey mirrors part 8

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 8/8/2008
the glimmer room lives in Essex England

Tagged as: Ambient, New Age

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2. JS Bach - Book 2 CD1 Well-Tempered Clavier by Daniel Ben Pienaar: virtuoso pianist playing Bach's 48
3. CD1 - Bach - The Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by Lara St John: Bach violin concertos
4. Bestiary by Robert Rich: groundbreaking ambient and dark-ambient
5. The Dogs of Rome by Michael Travisano: Modern alternative piano to feel in your gut
6. Seven Waves of Knowing by Sambodhi Prem: reflections of the moon in music
7. Reclaimed Property by Kalabi: chillout music for late nights and early mornings
8. Spectral Navigator by Ray Carl Daye: atmospheric ambient/electronic music
9. Fairy Peace by Dmitry Krasnoukhov: New age romantic piano music
10. About Love by Dmitry Krasnoukhov: New age romantic piano music
11. The Gates of Dawn by Ishwish: transcendent ambient vibrations
12. Ronroco Dreaming by Luke Gartner-Brereton: music for minds
13. SPCTR by DAC Crowell: deeply ambient new music
14. Ici et Maintenant CD1 - Live Archive Vol 1 by Robert Rich: groundbreaking ambient and dark-ambient
15. Mystic Journey by Suzanne Teng: world flute with a serene energy
16. Musical Incense - volume one (Hang and Guitar Duets) by Laura Inserra: the Hang, a new instrument from Switzerland
17. Lights are Burning, a Ghost is Dancing by Mogilalia: surrealist, modern classical ambient with tranquil trascendence
18. Love by Paul Avgerinos: beautiful ambient space music
19. Water and Sky by Kourosh Dini: minimalist piano with slashes of ambient electronics
20. Mandala for Chaos by Sampson-Carroll: lush and minimal; melodic and drone-like; pastoral and edgey

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