Sophie Sirota has developed a singular musical language combining her voice, viola, looping, and satisfyingly complex effects chains. Her rich sonic universe is made up of pieces that ebb and flow rhythmically, like the tides, while constantly suprising us with new sounds and captivating phrases. Like a living organism, each track is bron as a tiny seed to develop fully into a rich, multi-faceted, fully-formed set of interlocking ideas: beauty, rage, flow, friction, they are all there

Like its cover, the music on this album inspires curiosity and wonder. Where do these sounds come from? How do they become so alien, intriguing, and beautiful? In the end, we surrender to the unexplained, allowing it to carry us into utterly foreign lands. A masterful delight.

What a beautiful album! My better half said "it's like listening to nature" and one couldn't have chosen better words. But don't be misled into thinking this music is improvised or carefree. All the sounds have been brought together under careful consideration - "care" being the other important word here. This caring is the human quality at work. A remarkable collaboration.

A wonderful set of pieces with great balance between texture, ambience, and melody. Ascension drew me in and remains my favourite with its anthemic melody however the generously long Trade Winds brings a sense of oceanic afventures and comes a close second. Lisa Bella Donna reigns supreme in a particularly beautiful sonic realm.

A fantastically inspired piece of synth pop - and I use "fantastically" in both senses of the word, of course. In fact, the track is full of dychotomies: is it whimsical or mystical? Both. Is the fairie Queen a saviour or is she the Artist's doom? Both. Is this music from the past or from the future? Both! It is in the space between these opposites that all the magic lies.

This is a remarkable piece. It conjures a material landscape you can almost touch. It's beauty os of the painful, searing kind that never quite leaves you. A masterpiece.

A very powerful sonic texture.

Otherworldly soundscapes - new vistas from the more melodic edges of ambient that No Lake has helped us explore before in his unmistakable style. If you are interested in instrumental synthesizer music at all you must get yourself acquainted with this artist. In his work, various electronic styles collide in ways that you won't find elsewhere: techno and ambient, the Berlin school, hints of synthwave and strong reverberations of dungeon synth. Not off-the-shelf, but beautiful and relevant.

A strange, antiaerodynamic contraption plunges through a tunnel of swirling lights eagerly seeking the unknown. The cover art perfectly matches the opening track that suggests an eager and optimistic disposition towards the coming adventure. Soon, however, we understand that this is as much a voyage of inner exploration as of outward discovery. The album covers a lot of ground, from the uplifting majesty Worlds Rise and Fall within Us to the between highly melodic, optimistic tracks like

A tender, restrained, incredibly atmospheric song. Every little piece falls into place to form an intense feeling of loving tension. Wonderful - a synthwave masterpiece.

Beautiful atmospheres and stories, carefully and lovingly crafted by a skilled and sensitive synthesist. We cannot help being reminded of Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene but the delicate beauty of these pieces is all their own.