darshan ambient

compositions by michael allison

On Dream In Blue, composer Michael Allison evolves the Darshan Ambient sound by moving toward a jazz aesthetic while keeping the melodic, composed feel of his earlier works. Eleven tracks featuring signature piano and bass based melodic sensibilities infused with Allison’s best rhythmic hooks heard to date. Tracks range from pure ambient to heavily song-structured material, featuring drums, bass, piano, trumpet, and synthesizers in organic, well balanced mixes.

 

Track listing:

Upon Reflection • When Will My Someday Come • Mirage • As You Were •

A Letter From Home • Ghosts Of Africa • Silent Smile (Angelo’s Song) • Sun Fade •

Waiting On A Dead Man’s Horse • Sahara Sun • Dream In Blue

 

 

ECHOES Radio CD of the month - December 2011
Dream In Blue - 2011

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A Day Within Days is the kind of album that you 'feel' as much as hear - the soft atmosphere envelopes you in a cocoon of pleasant calm. The music consists of cascading keyboard tones that bear a crystalline twinkle, deep synth ambience to enhance the mood and a touch of rhythm to tie the compositions together. Piano is used to form the main melodic component, and strings provide a lilting accent to those melodies. From the reflective piece "The Lotus Eaters," which displays hues of Satie's "Trios Gymnopedies" to the jazzy undertones of "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal," A Day Within Days keeps you under its hypnotic spell throughout its running time.


Track listing:

Talking Book • One Moon Shows In Every Pool • A Deeper Blue • The Lotus Eaters •

Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal • The Dreamer Slept But Did Not Dream • A Day Within Days •

The Long Rain • It’s You

Finalist - ZMR Music Award - Best Ambient Album
Finalist - ZMR Music Award - Best Electronic Album
A Day Within Days - 2010

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From Pale Hands To Weary Skies, Darshan Ambient’s most moving and inspirational upbeat electronic masterpiece to date,  thanks to brilliant trans-continental collaborations with Jon Short from Deep Sky Divers as well as  Jourdan Laik  and a very challenging personal life crisis experience that powerfully communicates and uplifts. One of the most recognized artists on the Lotuspike label and a top-rated, highly acclaimed artist on MP3.com.

 

Track listing:

The Furniture of Time • Slowly Toward the North • The Look of Amber •

The Palace of the Windowed Rocks • Multiplication of the Arcs • Suffering Softens Stones •

The Rapidity of Sleep • Tomorrow (for Nicky) • The Geometer of Dreams •

From Pale Hands To Weary Skies • I Await You

WINNER - ZMR Music Award - "Best Ambient Album of the Year"

From Pale Hands To Weary Skies - 2008

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re:Karma is a collection of music selected by the artist to represent a career of elegant music making. This CD includes re-mastered “best of” tracks and previously unreleased material, as well as some new tracks created just for this release. Experience over a decade of Darshan Ambient’s career! This collection shows the incredible depth and variety of talent that Michael Allison brings to bear on his work. No Darshan Ambient fan should be without it!

 

Track listing:

The Cool River • Boundless • Tiger In The Grass • The Ocean Whispers • Premonition • Soul Chameleon • Box Of Sky • A Walk Along The Ganges • Mountain • Slow Drift •

After The Night • Black Mountain Morning • The Gift


re: Karma - 2006

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A great ambient album extends past hearing - it is music you can feel. It wraps around you and transports your mind beyond the confines of reality to a place of thought-provoking, magically mysterious bliss. Darshan Ambient does exactly this with his album Autumn's Apple. Listeners are greeted with a soundscape that ebbs and flows with synthesizers that are relaxed, hazy and peaceful. A spattering of beats show up from time to time to give the music a faint bluesy groove, while delicate piano melodies meander through the mix. The mood is reflective yet uplifting, making one think of crisp fall days, watching as nature retreats for the season, yet reveling in the colorful show it leaves in its wake. Any fan of mellow ambient or relaxing atmosphere music will embrace the artistic work of Darshen Ambient on this album.

Track listing:

Azure Day • Deep Garden • Pastorale • Acre of Sun • Sea Stars for Tristen • Rain Parade •

Pebble In My Shoe • Autumn’s Apple • Man in the Window

Autumn's Apple - 2004

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The music on The Zen Master's Diary is so suffused with calm and patience that it's like bathing in warm water under a starry sky. You'll feel yourself start to float away, not in a literal sense, but in the sense of having your cares lifted from you, as if they were tangible garments. I have a difficult time describing the emotional reaction I have to Allison's music with any lucidity because, to me, this is intensely personal music, meant to be shared only with those whom one loves. ~ Bill Binkleman

 

Track listing:

Prelude: Evidence Of Light • Night Shot Of Earth • Quieter Still • Drawing Water • Wanting • 

It Has Begun • Bless You • The Rightness Of Things • The Zen Master's Diary

 

The Zen Master's Diary - 2003

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Michael Allison's music moves me like the work of few others does. In its straightforward simplicity, economy of notes and chords, yet abundance of genuine feeling and utter contentment and serenity, listening to this artist's work is like feeling the embrace of a dear and true friend. It's like walking in the woods in the crisp air of autumn or seeing your son or daughter at play in the backyard on a summer's eve. Providence is about appreciating the beauty and wonder that surrounds us every day if we just laid down our cynicism and the weight of an uncertain future for a brief while. In short, this is music that will make you thankful for all that is good in your life. If there's a better way to recommend this album's worth, I can't articulate it. ~ Bill Binkleman

 

Track listing:

A Canopy Of Stars • Night Fishing • Providence • Liquid Desire • 

The Sombre Ballet • Soft~Land • Hills Of The Everlasting •

 

Providence - 2002

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