Diane
is the wife of prolific new-age composer/producer David Arkenstone. Together the
two formed the recording-company NeoPacifica through which they have published a
variety of well-produced meditation music and new-age artists. Diane has
released three albums to date, the first being very new-age orientated. However
it is Diane's second solo offering
Aquaria
(subtitled: a liquid blue transcenscape) that is probably the best work the
label has released to date. As you read reviews of this album across
the
Internet, descriptions like "seductive" and "enchanting" will keep cropping up.
This is because
Aquaria:
A Liquid Blue
Trancescape is a
stunningly immersive journey that drags one beneath the waves into another world
with it's airy synthesisers, programmed drumloops, earthy rhythms, electronic
basslines and Diane's wispy Mythos-like vocals floating in and out of the mix
like the ocean-tide. The album opens with a beckoning whisper that
starts the 9-minute opus World of
Light before kicking into gear with shakuhachi
melody, light hip-hop drums and wordless intonations. About halfway through, the
track moves into a more eerie territory with its rhythmic harp arpeggios panning
from left-to-right, distant flutes and piano. The Water Garden is a much
darker work with its growling synth basslines, atonal synth-horns, slowed violin
and panflutes. Tracks move effortlessly from Celtic new-age, as on Through
the Veil, to synth-orientated tracks like the title-song Aquaria. If
the oceans had a soundtrack album, this would surely be it!
Jewel In The
Sun is the 2002 follow-up to Diane's
second album.
Diane
is the wife of prolific new-age composer/producer David Arkenstone. Together the
two formed the recording-company NeoPacifica through which they have published a
variety of well-produced meditation music and new-age artists. Diane has
released three albums to date, the first being very new-age orientated. However
it is Diane's second solo offering
Aquaria
(subtitled: a liquid blue transcenscape) that is probably the best work the
label has released to date. As you read reviews of this album across
the
Internet, descriptions like "seductive" and "enchanting" will keep cropping up.
This is because
Aquaria:
A Liquid Blue
Trancescape is a
stunningly immersive journey that drags one beneath the waves into another world
with it's airy synthesisers, programmed drumloops, earthy rhythms, electronic
basslines and Diane's wispy Mythos-like vocals floating in and out of the mix
like the ocean-tide. The album opens with a beckoning whisper that
starts the 9-minute opus World of
Light before kicking into gear with shakuhachi
melody, light hip-hop drums and wordless intonations. About halfway through, the
track moves into a more eerie territory with its rhythmic harp arpeggios panning
from left-to-right, distant flutes and piano. The Water Garden is a much
darker work with its growling synth basslines, atonal synth-horns, slowed violin
and panflutes. Tracks move effortlessly from Celtic new-age, as on Through
the Veil, to synth-orientated tracks like the title-song Aquaria. If
the oceans had a soundtrack album, this would surely be it!
Jewel In The
Sun is the 2002 follow-up to Diane's
second album.
