(2022) Interstellar ambience

by Mathias Grassow

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Paul Asbury Seaman Grassow’s magnum opus. The combination of scope, variety and seamless continuity over 4 ½ hours makes Interstellar Ambience Grassow’s singular masterpiece. With more variety of instrumentation than his more typical drone excursions, this album can also be viewed (or experienced!) as a retrospective on Grassow’s prolific and varied expressions of music as spiritual exploration and comfort. So both introduction and summary of this artist’s work, space music at its finest.

frank_houlihan The two track sequence The Energy Of The Mass and An Eerie Orbit are by themselves worth the price of admission. Yet the entire recording is like this. The two part title tracks equally amazing, deliciously mysterious. I love this work more every time I listen to it. Which is already quite a bit. Wonderful stuff.

wom_tay Mathias is the king of drone and channels the majesty of the universe through his music, and this is a superb continuation and expansion upon some of the themes from Interstellar Gravity (2016, another must-listen)

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1.	Departure 02:38	buy track
2.	The Hologram of Doubt - Sector I 08:11	buy track
3.	The Hologram of Doubt - Sector II 16:42	buy track
4.	A Brief History of the Breakthrough - Part I 04:37	buy track
5.	Back in the Cosmic Glue - Part I 25:57	buy track
6.	The Energy of the Mass 09:43	buy track
7.	An Eerie Orbit 14:52	buy track
8.	A real dead AMBIENCE ? 09:43	buy track
9.	Where are thou Third Kind ? 04:06	buy track
10.	A never seen strange AMBIENCE 26:00	buy track
11.	Leaving through the Endlessness 10:09	buy track
12.	INTERSTELLAR ambience - Part I 01:00:00	buy track
13.	A Brief History of the Breakthrough - Part II 20:52	buy track
14.	INTERSTELLAR ambience - Part II 44:37	buy track
15.	Back in the Cosmic Glue - Part II 05:56	buy track

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This four-hour epic brings together the stories and tales of the two albums AMBIENCE and INTERSTELLAR GRAVITY into a coherent work and is at the same time a continuation of both albums. AMBIENCE once stood for the mysticism of the earth (-> here especially the Nordic hemispheres), INTERSTELLAR GRAVITY the feelings in orbit, the universe and in all the vastness known to us. Here, heaven and earth unite into a network far beyond the known...... which, understandably, we mostly encounter with fear. Is there life besides us? Is there life among us? Are we and our ideas (!) real at all? Are we in a matrix, in a hologram? What is finite, what is not? Where is the beginning, where is the end?
In view of these questions, this work may seem small, inconsequential and dubious.... may it nevertheless accompany everyone's own insights and hopes and lift up the listener...... in spheres where no human being has ever been before...

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released May 3, 2022

Many thanks as usual to my wife Cornelia Kern for cover image and layout.

Celebrated on several electronic and acoustic equipment.

In memoriam of Klaus Schulze (1947-2022).

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Mathias Grassow Bad Soden, Germany

Active since 1980. Training 80-83 at Synthesizer Studio Jacob in Wiesbaden. 1986 first cassette release, followed by first CD 1990. Mainly inspired by the "Munich school". Today specialized in ambient/drone with own style and strong spiritual orientation. "Ambient School" and "Sound Design" are currently under construction. Enquiries about : support@mathias-grassow.de. and www.mathias-grassow.de ... more

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