We often glimpse at things, events and situations in our life. Just a fleet glance, and we seem to know all about what or whom we look at. This habit prevents to receive a new impression of the world around, to know better the person you communicate with and yourself, to understand the reason for your actions. Our inadvertency can be referred to music also.

I have decided to make some changes and to get a new angle on some compositions in album Worlds Inside the Worlds. I would like to make my arrangement as mysterious, sometimes warm, sometimes bright.

Definitely, composition Asleep Civilization is about our civilization. I think that most people do not know that they fly at the rate of 107 thousand km/h aboard a huge spaceship – the Earth. And this is just orbital velocity, this is even not the Milky Way galaxy flying. The comprehension of such space movement helps me to keep away earth problems, to look at our life as from the space point of view.

The Moon. The cold, unknown, our native, our unique Moon. There is a theory that the life arose only due to the fact that millions years ago the Moon was much closer to the Earth. With its gravitation it mixed the world ocean like with a huge spoon causing storms, hurricanes, earthquakes. Over years its effect decayed and conditions for new life appeared. When a child I often admired the Moon. I could see a female face of its surface. It seemed to me that the Moon looked at the Earth like the mother, and the father is our Sun.

Worlds inside the worlds is simultaneously difficult and easy to understand. We are surrounded with invisible, incomprehensible worlds. For example, let`s consider man. Each of us is individual, but we consist of living cells which do not obey us. They have their own world, we have ours. By analogy we can imagine that we too are a part of a huge organism. We seem to live for ourselves, but really we keep the life in “it”. Probably this is that very way which the Worlds Inside Worlds follow.

Ashterra has a lot of mysterious and fine compositions. Each of them can be carefully studied, modified, looked under different angles, and can open out something new and interesting. I have dared to change only three tracks. May be later I will dive into the others, I will see in them other unknown worlds, open new vistas, realize connection of man with the enclosing World. But it will happen only if I do not forget how to understand the language created by the vibration of the nature, stars, space, our Universe – the language of music.

The River of Time is the river of life, a stream created by the nature. Once been born we dip into its water and start our own way. The River is both severe and endearing. Vortexes and whirls toss us about, they exhaust us, purify, make us tired, and its tender, cozy and warm flows waken us and fill with energy.

The River of Times allows us to choose our way in its bed. The River is a careful teacher for those whose hearts and minds opened, who are bored to sail uncontrolled and thoughtlessly. I am delighted with comprehension of such a movement, such an opportunity to develop ourselves!

I like to stop in a busy street, to close my eyes and to feel its presence in everything. Crystal water is flowing in every breathe. Its energy exists in the flight of a bird and in the rustle of trees, it is in our hatred and love, in our melancholy and joy, in our desire to create and destroy.

I can see how a slightest movement keeps circles on its surface. They spread in different ways, reflect from barriers are come back, at different times, with different force. This is the answer to our main question “ Why?”. We receive back what we have launched in our River.

Listening album The River of Times I feel our Earth`s heat beat and the pulse of our beautiful blue planet which, like us, exists in the stream of life and consolidates all of us, all life times, all events.

Composition The First Eagle Flight opens for me vast of forests and fields wreathed by rivers. I feel energy of the incoming flow which is bracing and renewing me. I feel the freedom which allows me to see happening events from outside, easily and quietly, without personal interests, without clich?s and labels. To know how to hear and how to see is the real freedom, freedom from ourselves.

Listening Paradise on Earth I imagine myself on the young Earth, in a period when the mankind left no imprint yet, when the whole ecosystem was harmonious, where every living organism executed its work, created and helped others. And again I can see that effective development is possible only in the harmonic environment, in the harmonious system.

Light and transparent composition Awakening tells me about birth of a new day. This freshness feels when I see the sunrise by my favorite huge lake. The sun is rising just from its waves, and it is as if sun rays destroy night calmness, a breeze starts and everything around comes to life.

Adding the album to your collection you make a right choice, but only if you can feel the environment as a uniform living organism, and the folks about you as your own reflection. This is your music only if you are able to experience disinterested love to winds, stars, people, to experience love simply because you live here and now.

Have a nice dip!

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The Russian-based atmospheric, ambient, and space music group, Ashterra, is spearheaded by Vladimir Volodin and Roman Pavlov. The new album, Worlds Inside The Worlds, is an intergalactic romp through outer space if musical instruments resided in different galaxies. The result is a twelve-track album that is wholly instrumental and steeped in the electronic world of keyboards and avant-garde sounds.

“The Secret” begins with a few synth pads and trickles of electronic brilliance amidst an ocean of aural sound. The electronic accompaniments are swishy, drippy, and industrial with soft electronica sounds pervasive throughout. There are creaks and knocks that are very appealing early on—especially when mixed with the eerie blurbs and keyboard embellishments. The spacey, new age, drum percussion is great throughout. The atmospheric and spacey sounds are steeped in Enigma-like arrangements with a hint of Tangerine Dream.

“The Consciousness Of The Atom” opens with a few industrial blurbs, pings, and eerie percussion with environmental noises and theatrical sounds that are avant-garde and experimental. There are angelic backdrops that echo a sense of atmospheric beauty and a heavenly realm untouched by human hands, but Ashterra mixes in some electric guitar-like sounds that only add to the already complex mix of aural pleasure. The swirling, industrial sounds rest mid-song, but pick up in intensity during the latter half of the song. There is a space rock feel with electric guitar sounds, ear-piercing electronica, and pounding percussion that breathes life into the album.

“Scent On The Water” begins with piercing, clear sounds that bounce off each other into a distant abyss of electronica in a rather mysterious way. There are some keyboard sounds that resemble blurbs, pings, tones, and rings. There is a hydrologic quality to the sounds, as they come across in a watered-down manner. For example, the sounds are varied, but the tones seem rounded and polished in a way that resembles fluidic movements and sounds. There are sonar- type tones mixed with a heavy, industrial theme that makes this song resonate without sounding overdone.

“The Flow Of Eternity” opens with a few, deep thuds and a swishy, electronic base. The ebb and flow of sound resembles breathing sounds with a few drippy blurbs and industrial tap, twinges, and cracks. There is a contemporary, ambient element here, which is permeated with an atmospheric instrumental foundation that is undeniably intriguing and meditative in a trance manner. The percussion is more prominent during the latter half of the song. Still, the song transforms electronica into a spacey, ambient, and trance-inducing, intergalactic journey for the mind and soul.

“Arcturus” begins with a water or fire sound with crackles and thuds that are permeated by a single, clear sound and backed by an atmospheric display of spacey constructions. The twinkling sounds are mixed with horn-like sounds and a drippy, spacey beat. The symphonic array of sounds resembles showers of sparks, fluidic movements, and crystalline sounds. The swishy percussion sounds, clanging, creaking, and wooshing sounds are a thing of beauty.

Ashterra’s new album, Worlds Inside The Worlds, is an album that spans the gamut of experimental space, ambient, lo-fi, new age, electronica, and down-tempo music. The instrumental sounds are backed by electronic embellishments that are more than interesting to listen to. The music takes listeners on adventures into the spacey void of electronica with a little beat to go along with it. The music is a spacey form of Enigma and Tangerine Dream, but the similarities are fairly pronounced. At any rate, Ashterra rocks the world (and galaxy) with a new album that transcends time and space without resorting to hokey vocals or meaningless sounds.