You have these memories inside of you within living memory... The journey you have set off for a long time ago still has not come to an end. You remember endless acres of fields, sleepy meadows, callow woods and your own footsteps in horizonless greenness. The presence of "something", what has guided you here, something, promising to uncover the Mystery. This all awaited there... beyond misty horizon disappearing in the distance. Is this all real ?

Or is it just a dream ? Now it feels like you have been there, as if it really happened.

But when ? You can recollect the smells, you can hear the sounds of insects in the wet grass, you remember nights under cold stars and... the feeling of being close to the resolution. You can recollect that atmosphere, you can almost hear gentle, spilled, sustaining tones, resonating in glittering blaze over the lost horizon...

Inspired by the vibe of the novels "Lost Horizon" by James Hilton and "Forest" and "Roadside Picnic" by borthers Strugatsky, I have sampled my trusty old Yamaha RGX 721 DG electric guitar to create gentle clean samples proper for looping and dreaming.

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"We have travelled long and far to reach this planet. Those years spent in cryosleep have been a success. We have found what generations of explorers have only dreamed about; a planet, which shows clear signs of life.

More precisely we are able to receive whole scale signals appearing to be of an intelligent origin. We are not sure what this all means and we are not able to say anything specific yet but we know great discoveries are about to happen soon. This time we have brought new clever machines, devices, radars and analysers to help us take these final steps."

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A long long time ago, when I was a kid, this little birdie was initially bought to me by my father during our visit of Romania sometimes in 1980s. Since those times this cuckoo sits here and there, moving with me from a flat to a flat, from my childhood to present days. I bet it has never dreamed about being finally sampled :-).

But it happened and did a nice job, singing those two tones patiently for me (it has a hole in the front that can be covered by a finger to produce lower tone). What you have here is a nice little instrument with great experimental possibilities. You can come up with kind of jungle scenery with various exotic birds tweeting, get to the sci-fi territory with weird pads and effects, or to get to the rock pub with overdriven (cuckoo) rock organ.

This summer I got the chance to visit a very nice holiday resort in Bulgaria located near the town of Obzor. Of course, my trusty microphone went with me (as did the camera), because the sea always attracted my attention, soothed my mind and made me feel like home.

I immediately liked the place, partly because of the fact that even if it was crowded at times, there was always a chance to find a place where I could hunt for sounds without being disturbed...Well, maybe it was due to the fact that I was just one of a few visitors, who used to get up at 5:30 am...

Anyway, soon my collection of sounds got bigger and bigger, and I knew this could make a nice collection of meditative, relaxing sounds. Later, when reviewing all the various samples (from sea waves to flags flapping in the wind, a swimming pool drain to wind howling on a hotel staircase, banisters, or a night-light), I realized I had a kind of a “portrait” of a place under my fingers, which could inspire one to create, to invent, to dream, whatever... I felt the Genius loci - the “spirit of the place” was present and made this happen.

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