Comfort Stoned
This 2005 album with Sonja Kristina is a merging of ambient
instrumentation and the always exquisite vocal of Kristina, this latter slowly
introduced through the three opening tracks until she is singing fully and gorgeously
on fourth Fall So Hard, written by
Sonja and producer/multi-instrumentalist Marvin Ayres. This is followed with Healing Senses by more sweeping
soundscapes and a vocal swathe across these, the musical therapy fully
realised. Sixth Blue Words is another
beautifully sung massage for the senses, and this seems to by the purpose of
the Mask amalgam. After this, tribal percussion leads off Shelter Skelter just ahead of the electronics, and track ten Lambent Spire is a hypnotic coalescence
of Ayres’ cello and Kristina’s singing. These mergings as well as moves between
instrumental panoramas and more song-based tracks collectively produce a
calming, aural salve.
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