Aster - Light In The Valley

The droning chirps of a plethora of cicada mixed with the ageless voices of kids at play. Both sounds natural and have steadfast merit. Time has compressed this energy, millions of years for insects, and thousands of years for children, now together in this instant. Thoughts of how they connect, something having evolved over millennia with a counterpart so young in it's own evolution. There is really no reason to hold both sources along side each other, no symbiosis in development, only the reason of resting in one place at one time. Light In the Valley by Aster helps lift the consciousness above it's well grounded resting place. In the refreshed elevated state, tactile inputs can be held in stasis, turned and examined, merged together to understand their special properties within the moment. This composition is the spiritual elixir enabling this action. A collection of tracks like swift moving clouds. They frame the skylight as air currents are their constructors. Light In The Valley is a beautiful medium allowing thoughts to reach deeper within the current moment. 
 
Aster fuses gorgeous tones with heavy feelings, all in gravity defying whimsy. An ambient composition playing like a soundtrack for all life around us. Eleven tracks gently pushing thoughts forth like children on tree held swings. Sublime momentum floating legs forward, trusting hands guiding the next propulsion. Light In The Valley has tones reaching back to pristine places, old growth trees lifting to touch unadulterated air. Sun pouring in through the spaces between the leaves, like the harmonies held in this composition. These are refreshing sounds.
 
Dominic Van Horn is the person behind this tightly woven collage of beautiful melodies. This is the first physical edition for Aster, released in an edition of fifty seven cassettes by the St. Louis, Missouri label Distant Bloom. There is another composition on bandcamp titled "excess loss" that is worth exploring as well. Copies of Light In The Valley are currently available but there probably are not too many remaining. Another gem from the label. 









Links 
Aster - facebook - bandcamp
Distant Bloom - bandcamp - facebook
 

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