Fountainhead - "Cloud Cover"
(c)&(p) 1998 Aucourant Records
9tks/69mins
Enigmatic, mysterious and misty. Soft, tender and delicate. Peaceful,
moving and flowing. All these epithets are quite suitable for
the music of "Fountainhead", the new project, released
by Aucourant Records.
"Cloud Cover" is a classical ambient. This is a music,
which invites us to immerse into the depths of unknown, other
worlds or abandon ourselves to a solitary contemplation. It creates
a specific surrounding, covers a listener, and gives him an opportunity
to concentrate on the things, he considers most important for
the moment. Still, if we would stop only on this aspect of the
album music, one more important detail would be missing: "Cloud
Cover" is good as a not unobtrusive background. You can not
hear the music attentively, but just use it as a rather intelligent
helper for various activities. And this is the advantage of the
album (as well as the advantage of the classical ambient!).
Sometimes a little bit gloomy, sometimes more light - but you
ca be sure that it is never pressing - the music of "Fountainhead"
gives the impression of space. With the help of this music you
can enter your inner space or just feel it. This music can be
attributed to minimalism. And these very means of expression are
good to feel the infinity of both inner and external worlds.
And so, while listening to the "Cloud Cover", you can
not be bored, and you just wish to swim in the flowing, airy streams,
created by the "Fountainhead"...
