Label: Shadowside Music
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Release Date: October 7, 2016
With that spirit of fellowship and a common bond, great
music is then created.
Late last year, Al Conti released an extremely successful
recording. Mystic arrived to the
delight of people in the music business and fans alike.
The multitalented Mr. Conti and friends such as Jeff Pearce
(electric guitar), Pamela Copus (harps), Charlee Brooks (vocals) and Ricky Kej
(associate producer) add their magical talents to the mix.
The compositions feature chant, udu, hurdy gurdy, cittern,
lutes, violins, and electric guitars. The cinematic tracks and their multitude
of energies and sound sweep you away. Picture the wind that takes away the
sands from the desert floor. And in a literal sense, as if you are somewhere in
the Middle East taking a musical magic carpet ride through the beginning of
time and civilization. Just listen and ride the waves of music that surround
you and then you are instantly there.
The opening tittle track “Mystic” is a door opener into a
different world and the anticipation of “Ritual” brings thoughts of ancient
people paying tribute to their gods and idols as you await a ceremony in your
mind’s eye.
If you happen to enjoy consistency in a thematic and
musical sense and enjoy listening for those two elements colliding to form beauty,
then listen closely. Mystic will excite you, soothe your soul
and take on an adventure of your own design. The music makes all this unfold
before you and then your mind, body and spirit indulge it to lead the way, and
that it does.
Mystic
is
more than befitting its name, it is art and poetry in motion. The music cycles
through your being and transports you far away from inside your own mind to a
different spiritual plane. Music the great healer, is on awesome display on
this recording. I loved every minute of it.
5/5
Stars
Keith “MuzikMan” Hannaleck
January 30, 2017
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Tracks:
1. Mystic
2. Trance
3. Prayer
4. Visions
5. Pilgrimage
6. Contemplation
7. Ritual
8. Devotion
9. Anima Aeterna
Tracks:
1. Mystic
2. Trance
3. Prayer
4. Visions
5. Pilgrimage
6. Contemplation
7. Ritual
8. Devotion
9. Anima Aeterna