Radiance

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Analogue Acid lines which buzz like exposed transformer wires... a inwardly-spiralling trance pulse... mantric bands of unsullied electronics, clean, crisp and cutting... Germany's Sanjiva is a student of a the lost art of Trance. This is Trance unpolluted by the fluorescent hallucinogens of the Goa set, uncorrupted by breakbeats or breathless BPMs. Sanjiva's deep and reverberant melodies radiate and coruscate like concentric waves emanating >from an electronic eye. They display the characteristic behavior of particle-waves, rippling across stacked parallel planes, undiverted and driven independently toward some terminus which lies just beyond the signpost of Infinity. Radiance is an unbroken journey, with such movements as the elegiacally sparkling "No Zone" and the majestic "Wisdom Field" providing well-timed delimiting phase shifts in the album's horizontal narrative. The final leg, a beatless stretch of supernal Synthesizer-Age organum named "Fountain of Nothingness," recalls nothing so much as the chromatic timewinds and vortices of Trance pioneer Klaus Schülze and his out-worldly radiant dawns.