You just can't go wrong with Dwiki Dharmawan. His brand of fusion merged with world music is always effective. This new album is just more proof of that. While a good portion of this is purely instrumental music, there are quite a few songs with world music vocals. The disc has a wide range and some great music.

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Rising mellow, piano and flute are a big part of the first movement here. This evolves gradually with some great fusion, prog and world music elements all on display. Around the two minute mark (this is over ten and a half minutes long), percussion takes over. The song rises up from there to a killer powered up fusion jam that still has a lot of that world music element at play. They work things through various movements and changes as it drives forward. A percussion break leads it into some seriously spacey stuff as this continues. That gives way to an intense guitar solo driven movement that makes me think quite a bit of Al Di Meola. It gets pretty crazed for a time, but then drops back to a more playful, experimental type of sound to continue. Around the seven minute mark they transition to more of an old school jazz sound and piano drives a lot of that next part of the piece. They work it back out to more fiery fusion, and that motif makes up the rest of the number.

The piano from the previous movement brings this into being. At over fourteen minutes of music, it's the longest track here. It gets pretty trippy and spacey as it works upward. The piano is really the main element for the first five minutes or so. After that it explodes out into some pretty crazed freeform styled jamming. It gets noisy and dramatic. Yet there are still waves of space sound in the mix. It drops down to spacey textures after that segment plays through and reaches its soaring peak. As it builds back outward more standard jazz merges with spacey music. This gets pretty trippy before it ends.