The Infinity Project – Mystical Experiences

An aural gateway indeed (please enter at least 2 more words)

This album is a true masterpiece of psychedelic music - it's now 21 years from release date, but you can find only a few album, to that date, that came close to that level of perfection. Every track is a journey, but whole album is reality changing peace of art. Listen it on vinyl, in true hi-fi system and you realize what it does it meant.
While sound becomes colour and colour becomes sound.... good conclusion

Mount Kailash meditation guaranteed. Totally hypnotic music which will give you an out of body experience if you allow it to bathe your neural matrix. No psychedelics are required because this is aural acid of the purest quality. If you don't lift at least a little off-planet listening to this, may I humbly recommend that you the queue for Getafix's magic potion, get thee to a nunnery, do fifteen years of pranayama or otherwise reprogram your horizons. Even the slightest openness to this trip will allow you to view our galaxy, let alone our planet, from an impossibly remote distance and contemplate our irrelevance in the multiverse.

It seems almost churlish to mention the significance of this album for culture generally, for music, for psychedelic music in particular. I'm not joking when I state that in my opinion this constitutes possibly the most important album in the second wave of psychedelia to sweep through popular culture; in other words, it is up there with "Are You Experienced?", "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and the best of early Tangerine Dream. Pretentious I know, but that is what I think. Moreover, it inaugurates the genre of psychill, psybient, call it what you will.

All tracks are simply mind bending genius, but "The Answer" has one of the all time classic samples that I feel compelled to reproduce:

"No one saw its approach
A small point of light
lost in the glare of the morning sun
it had been drifting for centuries
through the inner solar system
like an iceberg in the ocean of interplanetary space."

This track is THE ANSWER to the question you didn't know to ask. ~*~

If you're of the Shpongle persuasion then you'll definetely like this release. This was TIP's first ambient release, but about half of it was co-written with Simon Posford, making this pre- Shpongle. The flutes, soundscapes and spacey samples are brainchildren of where Shpongle went just a couple of years later. The complexity in track structure is inherent in this LP, and it works very well since this is not a full- on Goa LP. This is a very beautiful, well- produced LP that is now very valueable.