Ashra - New Age of EarthNew Age Of Earth is a record full of contrasts: the throbbing, techno predicting "Sunrain" opens the album; with its waves and crickets sound effects, "Ocean Of Tenderness" pulses gently like a space age early Fleetwood Mac; "Deep Distance" brings elements of surf music into glacial electronica. At 21 minutes long, "Nightdust" occupies all of the album's second side, a ruminative, slowly unfolding piece that, after its crescendo, gives way to

On ‘Golden Mirror’ Felisha gently diffracts a lonesome guitar phrase into a humming thizz with a steeply uncanny ability to jog the memory in a similar way to how olfactory stimulus can conjure feelings of nostalgia

A5        I've Got A Feeling

and as an essential part of any psyche-prog head's record collection as jazz fans

Inspired by the Nuggets compilations

“I’d drive to mansions and people would complain about how hard the pandemic had been next to their swimming pool and tennis courts

Unlike the bands previous records

exploring ambient textures and effect laden songwriting via a series of blissful albums for the band

not Exile On Main Street

Spread across two luxurious slabs of vinyl

Releases in Europe had the words "Jimi Hendrix" placed above the title

This 2LP presents the bands that followed closely behind

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