Alpha Flight - Ring Of Worlds (New Age Space, 1994)

Album Information
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Album: Ring Of Worlds
Artist: Alpha Flight
Year: 1994
Genre: New Age Spacemusic
Label: Syn-Music

File Information
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Ripped By: Zammo on 14/02/2007
Ripped With: NMR
Encoded With: LAME 3.90.3 --alt-preset extreme -m s
Encoded At: VBR 238-264 kbit/s 44 KHz Stereo
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Cover Image present: YES


Track Listing:
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01 -( 1:20) - (VBR 264) The Ring
02 -( 5:47) - (VBR 240) Start to the Worlds
03 -( 7:31) - (VBR 252) World of Caves
04 -( 7:11) - (VBR 254) World of Green Clouds
05 -( 7:37) - (VBR 239) World of Monks
06 -( 6:44) - (VBR 251) World of Liquid Metal
07 -( 8:07) - (VBR 245) World of Endless Forests
08 -( 6:37) - (VBR 263) The Space Between Worlds
09 -( 8:42) - (VBR 238) World of Crystals
10 -( 9:34) - (VBR 248) Lost World - Epilog
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Number of Files: 10
Total Duration: 1:09:10
Total Size: 122.76 MB
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This album, described as New AgeSpace-Music/Meditation, is composed and arranged by Chris Höppner, with a little help from Peter Mergener. 'The Ring' sets an ethereal scene effectively before 'Start to the Worlds' carries on in he same vein. Sweeping synthscapes, weird effects, cosmic callings. The expected elements but well put together. 'World of Caves' opens with more spacey sounds which, if anything, are even better than those featured in the opening two tracks. Three minutes in and the track switches to a sequencer & improvised lead outing which to be truthful is not that brilliant, but it only lasts a couple of minutes and the track ends as it started with more ethereal synth. Sequences emerge from weird effects on 'World of Green Clouds', while 'World of Monks' does indeed contain monkish sounds and rudimentary note droplets. 'World of Liquid Metal' is an excellent spacey offering with sweeping synth chords and some well constructed background sequences and liquid effects, while 'World of Endless Forests' adopts a careful approach and even features samples of leaves crunching underfoot. 'The Space Between Worlds' is a very grandiose interlude, while 'World of Crystals' takes a while to get going but does contain some good moments. 'Lost World' contains some excellent sequences which deserve a more prominent place in the mix, leaving 'Epilog' to close on a surprisingly optimistic note. I've heard better examples of "New Age Space Music" than this, however if you do particularly like this style of music then there's more than enough on offer here to warrant investigation.