CD - Sam Rosenthal & Vidnaobmana - Terrace Of Memories

1 CD - Import - remastered

992's Terrace of Memories is ambient minimalism at its best. It's an organic electronic album of longing and gentle melancholia. Sam Rosenthal (Black Tape For A Blue Girl's founder/synthesist, then based in Los Angeles) and Dirk Serries (then recording under the moniker vidnaObmana in Belgium) blended their atmospheres and somber contemplative electronics on this timeless album filled with lush, dark and beautiful impressions. The swelling deep waves of the five tracks suggest memories of more pleasant times lost forever in the cold, lifeless present. Obmana's icy and isolating textures are beautifully contrasted by Rosenthal's warmer synthetic presence. It's a blissful, slowly spinning environment creating a dreamlike, surreal universe for contemplative rainy or winter nights. Remastered by Serries, the music is appropriately mournful with a slow grace, drifting through a world of remembrances, an endless stream of stirring reflections.

• 2024 remaster by Dirk Serries, taken from original DAT mixes
• CD in 6-panel digipak with additional images
• Their only collaboration: organic ambient and gentle melancholic minimalism

OndaRock Italy writes: "The first of the five tracks in the setlist, 'These Ancient Halls,' is the door through which you enter a mystical universe: a dark and threatening siren marks the time, while a drone at higher frequencies silently begins to grow, announcing a cascade of blinding light. The technique used for mixing is that of superimposing sound events: starting from silence, then dosing the sounds slowly, layer upon layer, to finally build small ambient symphonies, which in turn dissolve among carpets of opalescent sinusoids like benches of fog."