Venja – Cashmere Moon (rare!! 2nd hand)

Description

1 / Arcadia Memory 5:18
2 / Cashmere Moon (Where Wind Begins) 5:46
3 / Mutual Needs 3:02
4 / Once In A Blue Moon 4:21
5 / Musing 8:25
6 / Like The Turning Of The Leaves 3:30
7 / Emerald Green Eyes 5:25
8 / The Desert Tree 4:37
9 / When The Tribal Wizzard Dance 4:24
10 / Summer Days 4:30
11 / Cashmere Moon (Shabua, Desert) 6:39

Originally released as Arcadia. Overall an album with gentle and relaxed electronic / new age music. Venja brings together the extremes of musical tradition. The computer technology of the high-tech era together with the soft timbre of classically trained female singers. The two are finely balanced. When anyone accuses the creators of electronic music that their sounds are subdued and bizarre, Venja can teach them the error of their ways. Even though this musician considers himself to be a syntheziser purist. Venja lives in the eastern part of Belgium and has an education into digital technologies and so he build his first intruments himself. The millions of sounds which he can entice out of these instruments fascinate him and fill him with enthusiasm. This is the raw material for his “sound painting” much simular to the paint which painters place on their palettes. “Combining sounds in the right way, i.e. using them in the right context and breathing live into them, this is what puts the harmony into my music”, he says. All songs composed and digitally recorded by Venja at the Wetland Studio, Hasselt, Belgium Erwin Geens – bass on track 3 and 8 Bas. B. Broekhuis – drums on track 8 and additional percussion on track 11 Reinhilde Weytjens – vocals on track 1,3,6 and 11

2nd hand copy of this rare out of print CD in mint condition!!