Al Gromer Khan - Sufi (Repost) (2000)

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Al Gromer Khan (aka Aloysius Gromer) has built many soundscapes from his cross-cultural virtuosity. For Sufi, he relies heavily on Indian acoustic instruments and contemporary electronics. The CD is based on the intense poetry of the Sufi and the purity of their spirituality. Al Gromer Khan describes what he does as "paisley music - traditional Indian melodies intertwined with ambient keyboards". To anyone familiar with the vocabulary of spacemusic, however foreign or based in ethnic doctrine, Khan's music needs no translation. With Sufi, Khan continues to delve further into sonic atmospheres called forth out of electronic textures. Tweaked percussion samples carry the listener through the linear path of time, airy harmonies delicately shift the perspective of the pieces which are brought into soft focus by the pluck of Khan's elegant sitar melodies. A mesmerizing combination of technology and tradition, aether and earth, sensuality and reason, Sufi, with its incense like dynamics, lingers on well after the ember's glow has cooled. ~ starsend.org

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01. Khanqah - 06:12
02. Moderate Mast Near Motor Station - 04:05
03. Zikr - 04:24
04. Futura - 04:37
05. Hal-Fez - 06:42
06. Tanyet - 05:59
07. Ya Aziz (Ambient-Adagio-Alap) - 12:35
08. The Crowning of H.S. - 06:08