temples

Tracks :-

1). “Forgotten Temples”
2). “Gateway to the East”
3). “Temple of the Night”
4). “Pilgrim’s Track”
5). “Temple of Restless Souls”
6). “River passage”
7). “White Water”
8). “Temple of Lost Spirits”
9). “Deep into the Mountain”
10). “Before the Altar of Light”
11). “Gate to Eternity”

Temples is virtually a single piece of music consisting of 11 episodes. Each track is closely related in feel and sound content. Within these episodes, I’ve tried to express my feelings about some of the awe inspiring almost timeless sacred spaces and buildings I’ve visited. It’s more than just structures or the physical places. It’s the history. Generation after generation of people, their aspirations, their struggles their intellect and the conflicts that you feel are somehow embedded and recorded for all time here.
The music is about many such aspects: procession, chant, ritual, numerous religions, the past, the future and the timelessness of it all. I’m fascinated by the strong reactions that my senses always present to me when I visit such places. Electronic music seems to me to be a very good medium for expressing these feelings and senses. Throughout the course of this album I’ve used it to paint impressionistic sound pictures and music that conveys what I deeply feel and sense. There are many melodies, rhythmic ideas and strange sound textures and percussion. It’s a very personal album and is very close to me.
It runs to over 70 minutes.

This is my first album to be recorded and edited on computer. Computers have virtually taken over from analogue tape machines, so much so, that is now actually becoming very hard for tape manufacturers to stay in business! The reason is that computer based recording is now very good and it is also much cheaper. The electronic music that I produce has always been heavy on editing and experimentation. These were very time consuming and risky processes in the analogue world. Computer recording and processing has made the whole exercise very efficient compared to yesterday, which means I can experiment more and edit more and still get a good night’s sleep. Temples still has many analogue tape and synthesiser sounds on it but the final recording and editing is all done on computer. The sound sources are almost entirely from synthesisers but many are treated extensively to take them far away from sounding like most people’s idea of what synthesisers sound like. The are also quite a few analogue models from my old modular synthesiser.