Japetus - Visionary Journeys - Once Around The Sun

Visionary Journeys
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loop

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Once Around The Sun
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Once Around The Sun (1984)
Once Around The Sun is the story of the seasons and, correspondingly, the cycle of life and death of Earth's inhabitants. It is a very vibrant, bright and crystalline album and is not so much for relaxation as it is for practising creative visualisations. It was the second album in the 'Visionary Journeys' catalogue and still very experimental. Even though Once Around The Sun is more melodic and structured than The Great, Great Silence, it is still very raw and new.

All around and about us, we live in natural cycles. Our life is not minutes and seconds. It is four seasons, filled with a multitude of days and nights - always returning, in essence, on an evolving spiral, a little wiser and a little greater, the same yet changed. In truth, we live in the body of the Sun and are guided and governed by the principles of light, orbit, gravity and nurture.

These cycles condition our lives and our responses to life and even the endless nature of our living, planetary body. The Sun is the result of profound cosmic forces, penetrating this dark space over billions of 'years'. Once Around The Sun creates an electric environment in which to reflect on life in this solar system and the energies that wash over us as we spin in its endless cycles through times and spaces

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Listen to these two 3 minute track excerpts from this album and download them for FREE from BandCamp. Just click the 'i' icon. Click iTunes button below to purchase the whole album.

<a href="http://japetus.bandcamp.com/track/springtime">Springtime by Japetus</a>	Springtime
<a href="http://japetus.bandcamp.com/track/rainbow-serpent">Rainbow Serpent by Japetus</a>	Rainbow Serpent

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Tracks
Part One: The Seasons
1 - Springtime/Birth (6:06), 2 - Summer/Life (6:20), 3 - Autumn/Old Age (6.33), 4 - Winter/Death/Rebirth (6:27)
Part Two: The Cycles
5 - The Rainbow Serpent (6:38), 6 - Tai Chi Chu’an (7:07), 7 - Eclipse (6:24), 8 - Biorhythms (4:17), 9 - Magrathea (2:51)

Review
WHOLE LIFE TIMES: From Sydney, ambient composer - Japetus - similar in style to Kitaro and Vangelis, has released two very good albums 'The Great Great Silence' and 'Once Around The Sun'. Melodic interpretations of natural cycles within and without using synthesisers to create a peaceful, spacious yet awe inspiring atmosphere. As good or better than Kitaro, this is by far the best ambient healing music to emerge from an Australian composer so far.

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