If you're not familiar with it the cd is a "Windham Hill Sampler" of electronic music. It's filled with awesome music, and it leads-off with Mitchel Forman's Rizzo. Mitch is a complete bad ass keyboardist, and you know this is gospel truth because he performed in one of the 80s incarnations of the Mahavishnu Orchestra (and you don't get to play with John McLaughlin unless you are a complete bad ass). One of my favorite tunes is Ayers Rock by Colin Chin, which has a very dark quality (and also seems as if it would be usable as a great soundtrack). And the last tune Shadows of the Earth (Roy Finch) also is darkish and quite alluring and captivating.
Other faves: Water Trade, which has a nice contrast of mood, and the main theme of which seems to draw some inspiration from Chinese music. Time and the River and Land of the Morning Calm are great tunes to have wash over you. Just let it happen.
All the music is fairly imaginative, well-crafted, with lots of layers. It fits well within the Windham Hill endeavor (by my reading) of making meditative, ambient music -- often with a view to healing (life is filled with real loss, after all). And I completely admit to not knowing most of the musicians on this cd. Worth looking into...
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