Ritual Awakening

Editorial Reviews
Outburn 5/02
"an enjoyable and contemplative sound experience"

About the Artist
Dolmen is a collaborative project between Daye of Skye founder Steven K. Smith and solo ambient artist Jason Sloan. Begun in 2000, the duo began working on "Ritual Awakening". Sloan who is based in Baltimore and Smith who is based in Cleveland, found the long distance collaboration to be challenging yet productive. Dolmen receives it's warm and organic sound by the variety of traditional instrumentation as well as analog elements.

Album Description

Dolmen:Ritual Awakening (dhu001)

"Ritual Awakening" is the debut album from Dolmen. "Ritual Awakening" is a sonic experience of dense sound walls, minimal ambiance, and tribal fury. Varied and diverse, Dolmen have created dark etho-ambient world. "Ritual Awakening" has been called: "an enjoyable and contemplative sound experience" - Outburn 5/02 as well as "an excellent gem of a work that speaks to an aesthetic that is as fresh as it is new" -Matt Borghi All Music Guide Staff Writer.

Ritual Awakening

Classics Explained: Rite of Spring

Average customer rating:

Classics Explained: Rite of Spring
Stravinsky , Rahbari , and Brt Po Brussels
Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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General | Instructional | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00007FPFN
Release Date: 2003-07-15

Ritual Awakening

Average customer rating:

Amazing!
the best dark ambient cd ever!

Ritual Awakening
Dolmen
Manufacturer: skean dhu recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006ANOR
Release Date: 2002-05-14

Tracks:

In the heat
clouds of a christ
ritual awakening
conversations with ghosts
i call for you at every corridor
storm of earth
white mornings
efland::cuairteach

Product Description

A dark ambient experience.

Customer Reviews:

Amazing!.......2006-03-23

I can't believe this cd did not become a bestseller! Me and a few of my friends would sit around and listen to it and we would have some sort of spirtual experience. I really mean it. There is something hidden amoung this music that affects you on some sort of spiritual level. My musical background is hardcore and grindcore music. My friend turned me one to this and I owe him one. If you would of asked me to listen to ambient music a year ago I would have said your nuts. Yes this is ambient music, but it's totally diffferent that the regular stuff. I wish I could verbalize more. This makes my top 10 cd's of all time. This is something special.

the best dark ambient cd ever!.......2006-03-16

All I can say is that is this is one of the best ambient cd's ever released! Dark, brooding, elegant, and shimmers of hope are found throughout this cd. These guys are not your typical ambient/new age artists. It sounds like some angry guys playing ambient instead of going for metal or punk. Just amazing!

Music:

Music

Power of Jennifer Rush [Import]

Schumann: Carnaval; Papillons; Scenes From Childhood

Sonata for Solo Cello

Uncle Noah's Ark [Import]

Very Best of [Import]

The Miserly Knight

The Very Best of Miki Howard

Rimsky-Korsakov: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Op.30/Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.3

The Lightning Fingers of Roy Clark

The Cars: Deluxe Edition [Extra tracks]

Samba Power [Import]

Stratospheric [CD-single]

Prokofieff: Sonata in F minor, Op. 80; Sonata in D major, Op. 94a; Five Melodies, Op. 35bis