Live at Ambientlive 2k3, US
My full 46 minute set from the Ambientlive 2k3, US festival held on July 25, 2003 in Denver, CO. A continuous mix of ambient soundscapes and illbient textures.
Reviews:
13 tracks of beautiful ambient are presented in this digital download release. Very atmospheric, with lots of beautiful sounds and textures. Occasionally, tribal rhythms add something extra to the music, such as in Temp 1 (The Calm Life).
Even though the set is divided into 13 tracks, it would be better to view it as one big soundscape. And the longer you listen to it, the more you wish you’d been there to actually experience this soundscape on the spot.
This must’ve been an impressive performance, judging from the fact that even now, without the added atmosphere of the AmbientLive festival, the music on this release is quite impressive. I am definately enjoying this music, and I’m sure a lot of others will also enjoy it. If you like ambient music than you will love this release.
- Electronic Music World
The AL2K3 set is an auditory tour of a huge, hallucinatory maze eminating from the brain of Sisk.
From classic ambient to dark pulsing this album incorporates the best elements of the past with a structure that is very much its own. You are slowly drawn through large spaces surrounded by floating sound images and metaphors, dim voices, and somewhere below or behind or inside it all this veiled threat that comes and goes. Occasionally what you’re hearing simply sits there and slowly morphs into something new but most of the time the listener is moving carefully through Sisk’s soundscapes. Often this motion seems to end but just as you become settled in one of these spaces you realize you’re not there any more and everything is different again but you can’t remember when it changed. As this epic movement continues you pass through particular spaces that stand slightly apart like a beautiful side room. As you float along you realize you’re passing through a space you’ve already visited but by a different path that opens onto a a vista of otherworldly beauty that wasn’t revealed before.
And when finally you’ve reached the end you are left with the question if it’s ended or not, if you have left that space or if you’re still there. This kind of seamless flow is rare these days. It’s a wonderful, slow, theme park ride and you’re taller than “this high.
- The Institute for Psychic Reform
