Chronotope Project is ready with a brand new album called Dawn Treader.
Here’s a presentation of the album:
Cinematic in scope and depth, Dawn Treader is Chronotope Project’s first full length release on the Spotted Peccary label. Jeffrey Ericson Allen is the sole creative force behind the music, and he skillfully balances the compositions between mystical, ambient dreamscapes and organic, emotional melodic statements. The soundscapes – drawn from a variety of sources spanning ambient electronic, Western classical, and traditional world music – are textural, compelling, evocative, and meaningful.
The album begins with the title track, “Dawn Treader,” which enters at a distance, like a great mythological ship appearing out of the mist, bringing with it the rising sun, then turning again to sail off into the horizon. The mood turns dreamlike with “The Scent of Evening Flowers,” which offers a meditation on a line from the Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Basho. “Basho’s Journey” features the thirteen-stringed Japanese koto in a traditional hira-joshi tuning, and depicts the wandering poet’s long sojourns on the Five Roads of Edo. “Ocean of Subtle Flames” follows with a corresponding fractal nature in which micro and macrocosmic structures mirror and complement one another, suggesting the Mystic, whose universe is of one substance, at once unchanging and ever-evolving. Tibetan singing bowls are at the heart of “Omphalos,” a deep sonic meditation that radiates infinitely in all directions, while the effervescent electronics and choral phrasing of “Canticle for the Stars” offer a wordless hymn of hope to the heavens. “She Who Hears the Cries of the World” sets layers of Balinese gamelan into a bed of immersive ambient texture, closing the album on a captivating lyrical note.
Go to Spotted Peccary for more samples.