Mandala for Chaos

by Sampson - Carroll

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1.	Around 09:35	buy track
2.	Chasm of Faith 12:06	buy track
3.	Great Lakes Chain Gang 06:43	buy track
4.	After Dark 15:37	buy track
5.	Mandala for Chaos 11:50	buy track

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Our first album, when we were calling ourselves Embracing the Glass. Recorded live in the studio (the sadly retired Tremolo Lounge in Massachusetts).

(there's a percussion overdub on "Great Lakes Chain Gang").

video of "Chasm of Faith" live at the Ambient Ping in Toronto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap_UOYdid4I

credits

released October 15, 2002

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Jeff Sampson: voices
Sean Carroll: guitar; guitar synth; effects

"Languid harmonies generated by synthesizers, guitar and voice. Electronic textures unfurl and hang like translucent fogs, sighing and indulging in elongated pulsations. The voices drift with ghostly demeanor, generating an organic flavor amid the seesawing ambience."
(Sonic Curiosity)

"Sampson produces an impressively wide variety of sounds; he can hum, croon, moan, chant like a Tibetan monk, chant like a Western monk, or sing high counter-tenor. And in the weirdly juxtaposed “Great Lakes Chain Gang,” he sounds like an improbable white Aborigine singing the blues."
(Eclectic Earwig Music)

"The album itself is moody but never oppressive and is not really what I would call abstract, either. It’s sparse and minimal, but also warm, human, and organic, despite all the electronics."
(Wind and Wire)

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Jeff Sampson Colorado

no-rules/ progressive/ electronic/ experimental/ improvised and constructed

“...like being stuck inside a huge, haunted castle, straight out of Poe or Lovecraft, where nameless terrors await the unwary.”
— Cyclic Defrost

“...as if groaned by a lethargic vampire singer. ”
— ambientrance ... more

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