Taruna - World Fusion 2

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Taruna - World Fusion 2

 

 

Artist: Taruna

Title: World Fusion 2

Label: Shiva Space Technology

Date: 2003

 

Track listing:

 

01. Rainbow First

02. Pardesi

03. Emerald

04. Biosphere Terra Gaia

05. Cosmic Devotion

06. Arcturus Dominion

07. See The Prophets

08. Regulus

09. Orinoco

10. The Truth Will Come Back To This Planet

 

Review:

 

Here I am. Here being a ?mountain? around 20 kilometers away from my home. Must

have been about 2 hours ago that I recorded ?Taruna ? World Fusion 2? to a

minidisc, grabbed the player, a blanket and my laptop and drove here. That

took maybe 40 minutes, but was just the beginning. After some furios climbing

I finally reached the top. While doing that I nearly died like 5 times. So

now, infront of my very eyes there?s the gulf on Finland. This ?mountain? is

surrounded by a meadow. It?s pretty scary for there?s like the mists of avalon

hanging just over it. As I?m on the northern altitudes it?s not too dark. The

sun can be seen behind the horizon, though it?s very, extremly distant. It?s 2

o?clock. The sky is very odd. Huge cloud armies marching across it. The

colours are wonderdful. If you know what the ?Shpongle ? Tales Of The

Inexpressable? front cover looks like then you?ve got pretty good idea. White,

blue, purple and gray can be identified. The clouds naturally represent the

white and the grey. The sky is blue and purple. On the very horizon some

warmer colours, such as yellow and orange appear, though they are really

faint, almost unidentifyable. I can?t see the moon, but I?m sure the fucker is

somewhere up there. The sea is looks very peacefull. There?s no wind

whatsoever. It?s very peaceful. No sound, nothing, just me all alone in the

night. I?m curled inside the blanket. Only my hands are outside. The laptop is

naturally on my lap. There are a few chocolate bars on my right, and naturally

a giant on my right hand. It?s by the way slowly burnign away. If my mom would

only see me now. My laptops battery, with it?s 500mhz Amd K6-2 processor and

192mb ram is 100% charged. That?s what the Mandrake Linux 9.1 says anyways. As

I was climbing I though about the last Taruna album ?World Fusion?. I didn?t

remember any of the track titles, knew it was lying somewhere in my room

though. Must have not been such special, to my taste anyways. So shall we

begin?

 

Track 1. The beginning suits the moment well. Very distant, peacefull, and yes

perhaps even a little magical. It?s very Himalayn. Chors, bells, and chants

are heard. Also a gong. I by the way am totally waisted, so excuse my bad

grammar/spelling. At 01:20 the bells, tinkles, and chants are preparing a

beat, which then suddenly becomes a conga fury. We get a solid bpm. 01:45 we

get a bassline, which is very trancey. We definetly have a pattern. I wouldn?t

call this ambient. Then the melody kicks in. It?s very untraditional. The

congas are strong, but so is the melody. The bassline can?t be forgotten

either. 03:25 we have a break. The bassline remains. It?s not going anywhere.

I see a cloud that resembles a wizard. Though this guy doesn?t have lower

body. Is?t the giant kicking in? Very strong trance synth is introduced. Well

this really isn?t exactly my cup of tea. I?m not saying that the track is bad

or anything, but it?s just too trancey and straight forward to my taste. The

style slightly reminds me of some faster Entheogenic tracks. The ending is

very chilled and definetly a step into right direction. It?s amazing strings

and a flute that are doing the work. Very Chinese! A gong sort of ends it.

 

Track 2. The beginning is very electric. We get straight down to business with

a beat, that get?s even deeper down to business after is has existed for 20

seconds or so. 00:45 we get a travelling bouncing synth. Very joyful bleeps!

The wizard cloud has a giant on it?s right hand! A groove? No not really, but

sort of. The bouncy synth is behind it. Are we still at the Himalayas? Have I

heard that melody before? Also that female chanter sounds familiar. She?s

singing and I ofcourse don?t understand a single word. We have all sorts of

stuff on both the fore- and the background. All in all very groovy, still fast

sort of trance with out those strong kicks. Some jazz influences are also

present. 04:10 we get some kind of finger picked instrument. The drums aren?t

going any where. I kind a wish they very. They are way too Talvin Singh/Tala

Matrix like and I really am not too keen on them. Maybe I should close my

eyes? Huge smile on my face! It?s definetly better eyes closed! Much better.

 

Track 3. Thunder begins it. There?s also a future/space spoken sample thingy.

Once again very fast yet soft bpm. This is a new trance genre! Too bad that?s

not what I?m seeking. Hmm, actually it reminds me of that ?Celtic Cross?

album, and the last track on it. There?s a violin like instrument in this.

FLUTE! I heard a flute! I definetly heard a flute. YES! A step into right

direction again. 03:15 we get some congas. They are very soft. Spanish like

groove follows. Once again the closing eyes trick does the job. Behind closed

eyelids everything is different. Well, once again not exactly my cup of tea.

Too organic, while it?s not really organic at all. Difficult to explain.

 

Track 4. Waveeeeeees. ?What you are is the result of a certain kind of program

being run on a certain kind of hardware the hardware the sub molecular

structures that move ?? through themselves and out of an ambient chemical

medium select building blocks which are then put together create a 3

dimensional object which has the quality of life.? That?s the sample that

begins this track. The speaker has robotic voice. In the middle of it we get a

kick that grows stronger. 00:45 there?s pure hell going on. Once again

something totally unambient. Crows? Hell?s gates opening? Very symbolic. Nice

SYNTH! But I don?t like the general feeling. The giant is wearing off. Or not.

I?m so fucking twisted. 02:20 that must be Raja Ram chanting. =) I wonder what

he?s saying. Violin, the 4x4 hell, the astrix bassline, it all blends in

rather nice. 03:23 there?s a ?Brave heart? uplifter. Very indian athmosphere,

which the flute nicely blends in. If I wouldn?t have been expecting ambient

album I would most likely now be dancing or something. But I gotta admit that

I?m a little dissapointed. But, there?s really nothing wrong with this track

either. Reminds me of earlier Hallucinogen tracks actually. Yes, definetly old

school. For those who are missing that feeling long gone. Listen to this!

06:20 the synth is still doing the melody. Yes, I said melody. 06:35 it?s time

to go back to the hill billy ?violin?. All in all, pure nostalgia here. I

would rather enjoy hearing this track next summer at Samothraki. That would be

NICEY NICE!

 

Track 5. Finally part 2? Begin of the chillage village? All we had to do was to

enter that hell gate thingy? Oh no! Once again we get strong drums. No

variation whatsoever. Oh but OH MY. We get more traditional beat on top of the

conga/tabla work. Chiller? Yes, definetly. Typing this behind closed eyelids

so there might be many misspells. Evil spells =). 01:40 we have blisfull

melody. That chant is nice! Oh familiar chant! From Ott?s ?Blumenkfart? album?

Ye, I think so. Not important, but I?ve definetly heard that before! The woman

and man chanter are definetly having a conversation. There?s definetly some

magic in those congas. This is I guess a little more downbeatish work. Very

twisted in a way. Scratching! Haven?t heard that in a ?trance? track before!

Very nice build up going on somewhere around 05:00. Flute is in again. Very

complete work here. No doubt the best track this far.

 

Track 6. Mystical beginning. Floating soundscape. Once again very spacey. Not

that there?s any space in it, but the space feeling is definetly all around

the place. Very cool spoken sample at one minute mark. Then it?s time to dive

into bakcroom beat world. Chanters seem to be there too. Very strong beat. The

bass is a monster. CHILLEEER! =) Getting break beatier. Flute is here. What?s

missing? Perhaps a nice flocky melody? Yes, something like that would be nice.

03:12 we get one of those Asia instruments. 04:35 it?s time for the Talvin

Singh/Tala Matrix conga stuff. Way too fast to my taste. I just really don?t

find anything interesting in conga beat that repeats it self over and over

again. No variation what so ever. Drum n bassih. About to hit the skip button

on my md. Yes, I will. No thanks. Not my cup of tea.

 

Track 7. Once again we get old school influences. I just smoked a cigarette.

The sun is rising. It?s now 3 o?clock or something. Well once again we have a

down beat track, which unfortunelately I don?t find too interesting. Feels

like this is made for the masses. Maybe I?m just too tired. Ah yes, that might

be it. BUT, in my opinion good music doesn?t let you fall asleep. Structures.

Formulas. All the stuff I despise is here. Slightly, very sligly reminds me of

the Entheogenic style again. We can see the prohets. That?s what a sample

says. His voice is very sympathetic.

 

Track 8. Could be a classical track. The very beginning anyways. That option

dissapears once the effects kicks in. I hear rain and forest noise on the

background. Beautiful beginning all in all. Dreamy, makes you wonder what is

to follow. 01:10 something starts. Could be very epic. You never know. But NO!

4x4 carbage is once again upon. Chillage part just before 03:00. As the name

suggests. It?s just regular ?hey lets make music? music. Nothing special

really.

 

Track 9. Dreamy beginning again. But my hopes aren?t high at all. 01:13 it?s

still chill. Well still quite promising at 01:50. Chilly stuff all over the

place still at 2 minute mark. This could be good. Beleve it or not but still

at 03:30 it sounds really nice! Better than nice actually. 05:48 that?s more

like it! We have a melody, beat that has major variation. Melodies over

melodies. YES! Over.

 

Track 10. It all ends in a soundscape..

 

So? All in all huge dissapointment. But I did see it coming. What goes for my

location. I was just fucking with you. I was thinking about going to this

mountain, but decided to save the experience for the next Shpongle studio

album (I hope it will be released @ summer time =) ). So I was all along in my

home?s basement. Writing this stuff. Anyways, if you liked the first one I?m

sure you?ll also like this one. Otherwise. You should atleast prelisten this

before buying. Mmkay? This is probably one of those albums that you either

love or hate. I don?t love it, but still a lot better than the regular stuff

that?s released these days..