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In the Key of Sleep

by theAdelaidean

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The Vast Wilds
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The Vast Wilds Dots of silvery sound, gently falling, scattering and shimmering: the dialogue of slumber itself, who like a child, laughs, muses, plays, wonders and teases, poking fun at those who are merely awake. Bell-like realisations, a language not comprehensible and only understandable when sleep covers the senses. The strange logic of sleep speaks on this album and I can listen in on the mechanics of dreams. Maybe I should drift off while listening to this...but what will the music say to me? Favorite track: Falling.
Dave Aftandilian
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Dave Aftandilian Listening to theAdelaidean’s latest album feels like being submerged in a warm sea of sound that gently rocks you to sleep. Fireflies of starlight shimmer on the vast slumbering ocean’s surface, blinking a message of blissful calm. Seeing the stellar sea reflected in these warm earthly waters, you realize the oneness of all things. Even as your outer eyelids drift closed, your inner one opens.
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Floating 09:16
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Falling 04:30
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Flying 03:44
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Free 13:25
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Flux 06:59
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IN THE KEY OF SLEEP’s hour-plus title track is a gentle, minimalistic-ambient hymn to the art of slumber, a practice that doesn’t come easily to everyone. An insomniac for most of his life, Australian composer theAdelaidean’s eighth Projekt release draws on a limited palette of sustained synthesized strings, rippling electric piano and muted bass that chart a course through tranquil harmonic progressions, via a series of subtle transformations and gently surprising abstractions, to sleep.

Getting to “In the Key of Sleep” is a journey in itself through five re-imaginings and remixes on the core theme, beginning with a self-contained homage to the perfect afternoon nap, “Floating,” an abbreviated reworking of one key moment from the larger work. A series of near-complete reinventions follow, the first of them “Falling,” its brittle, diamond-sharp synths evocative of the random detours our minds sometimes take before giving in to slumber. “Flying” follows, capturing through wide-spectrum sequencers and intermittent bass stabs the adrenaline rush of a good dream, rushing like a river over the events of the day. “Free” brings the listener/dreamer to a state of pure release, adrift against a soundtrack of cinematic ambience, avoiding both defined melodic statements and resolution alike. The final variation, “Flux,” concludes in a locus of complete separation from time and space, beyond consciousness, beyond thought. Here at the centre of sleep, there are no dreams, just a slow pulse of being.

The final track, concluding what is in effect a double album, brings all these elements together, patiently repairing the mind from its daytime travails.

IN THE KEY OF SLEEP invites the listener to surrender to the inevitable, knowing that what awaits is both familiar and unpredictable. This state of mind is familiar to deep appreciators of ambient music, who use it as accompaniment to states both of higher consciousness and of unconsciousness. For theAdelaidean, this album is both an exploration of that tension and a cure for his own sleeplessness.

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Projekt is America's premier independent label specializing in passionately intense introspective music in the ambient, electronic, ethereal & darkwave genres. 40-year-old Projekt continues to nurture the careers of its select roster of artists. ... more

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