Colossus - Tar Heaven Wonders Of The Ancient World

Artist: Colossus
Release: Tar Heaven Wonders Of The Ancient World
Label: none
Year: 2007
Format: CDr
Tracks: 6
TRT: 41:01

There's 6 tracks on this disc and the titles all start with "At...". A good theme that fits this disc well. The disc starts off with some light guitar drone on "At Rhodes", much like Yellow Crystal Star, it's very melodic. The drone riffs carry for a few seconds and fade into one another nicely. At 4-minutes there’s introduced a rumbled loop as added bass effect thus turning the track in a light doom metal feel. There’s some great guitar effects as well near the end. I was going to do a track by track review but the sound and style is much the same as the first track so I’ll just sum up. It’s ambient guitar. This is stuff to listen to while reading outside on a clear sunny day. It’s the music that evokes memories. All the sounds are crisp and the music is actually decent. This guy knows how to play guitar. There are deeper tracks as well, like track "At Giza", where the guitar has more bass and longer drone. As far as experimentation goes I think track "At Ephesus", at over 11 minutes, is the closest. Lots of guitar play with some random riffs. The disc ends very nicely with a beautiful track titled "At Babylon". Starts with a slow guitar loop and builds up till the end. If your a fan of Boris or The Goslings then check this project out for sure. It's right up there.

The package is a well stenciled white CDr wrapped up in a folded picture of a tree. Don't like the picture much but it does fit with what I said earlier; "Listen to this outside in the sun." There's an insert as well with track titled and such. No website though. All together I enjoyed this one a lot and simply cause of the fact that it's very muscial/ambient noise it has a lot of replay value.