electronic / ambient / psychedelic
Ant Tales is an album by Argentinian electronic ambient music artist apparently known by the alias of Natural Life Essence, released on June 11, by record label Mindspring Music. A very extensive album – somewhat normal to the genre –, being almost seventy three minutes long, the record has only seven tracks: Sailing On A Leaf (Tranquil River) [Part One], Under The Mushroom (Watching Rain), Ants Gathering, Winter Is Coming (Survival Tale), Petal Juice (Transformation) [Part One], Sailing On A Leaf (Singer River) and Ant Hill (Coronation). With beautiful melodies, mostly stagnant and pervasively translucent, Ant Tales is one of those miraculously quiet and vividly silent albums, perfect for more introspective moments. Since the melodies primarily revolve in a uniform axis of diluted, but exponentially integral rhythms, it’s easy to dive into the deep ocean of marvelous grace that the artist slowly and softly unravels little by little, by the everlasting calmness of a music that seems profoundly attached to a sensorial, but at the same time, somewhat literal, fragment of infinity.
With a vast degree of serenity that vividly displays graceful apologies of expansive emptiness over the perceptive dimensional soundscapes of the mind, the listener’s soul is driven by an intuitive sense of majesty, that never renounces the infinite possibilities upon which the melodies are created. With delicate nuances continually shaping an elusive and colorful amalgamation of profoundly sonorous tonalities that slowly evolve to a complete correspondence with the universe, Ant Tales is an album understood as the confluence of a predominantly patient and latent atmosphere with the infinite harmonies that dwindles inside the most distant corners of our soul, without our knowledge. To identify and to rescue them is the main mission of the record.
Over clouds of anxiety that may obscure the reason, the sound dissipates throughout its anesthetic effects a great variety of deeply careful, but hesitant evaluations, that, nonetheless, accomplishes the purposes of its intentions: with the silent thoughts of an unseen quietness, it is easy to relax in a splendid and intense trance, that at the same time awakens the conscience for an entirely new level of lucidity, setting up a state of mind that you certainly never felt in your life before.
Although the album is longer, it is not exhausting, nor monotonous whatsoever, and time passes by so rapidly that, in the end, you feel it lasted only just a few minutes. Propitiating a marvelous journey propelled by a cohesively dense, but immaterial sonorous fuel, I deeply recommend for you to close your eyes and enjoy the travel. Ant Tales will drive you through places you’ve never experienced in your life before.
Wagner
With a vast degree of serenity that vividly displays graceful apologies of expansive emptiness over the perceptive dimensional soundscapes of the mind, the listener’s soul is driven by an intuitive sense of majesty, that never renounces the infinite possibilities upon which the melodies are created. With delicate nuances continually shaping an elusive and colorful amalgamation of profoundly sonorous tonalities that slowly evolve to a complete correspondence with the universe, Ant Tales is an album understood as the confluence of a predominantly patient and latent atmosphere with the infinite harmonies that dwindles inside the most distant corners of our soul, without our knowledge. To identify and to rescue them is the main mission of the record.
Over clouds of anxiety that may obscure the reason, the sound dissipates throughout its anesthetic effects a great variety of deeply careful, but hesitant evaluations, that, nonetheless, accomplishes the purposes of its intentions: with the silent thoughts of an unseen quietness, it is easy to relax in a splendid and intense trance, that at the same time awakens the conscience for an entirely new level of lucidity, setting up a state of mind that you certainly never felt in your life before.
Although the album is longer, it is not exhausting, nor monotonous whatsoever, and time passes by so rapidly that, in the end, you feel it lasted only just a few minutes. Propitiating a marvelous journey propelled by a cohesively dense, but immaterial sonorous fuel, I deeply recommend for you to close your eyes and enjoy the travel. Ant Tales will drive you through places you’ve never experienced in your life before.
Wagner
