"A musical meditation that
spirals up through the four elements with such deep feeling
that one ends up on the edge of cosmic awareness. Sozra has
created a musical painting, a masterpiece."
Sozra
- "The Earth Space Continuum"
Abbey
Reviews
New-age meditative mood. .
Abbey Reviews (9-8-99):
This CD comes as close to cosmic consciousness as mortals dare! John
Sosnowsky (Sozra) leads us through the four elements through the
universe and beyond. In two compositions of about 25 minutes in
length Sozra explores 'Earth' and Space', running the gamut of the
gradations of feeling found in uniting with nature from the ground up
to the cosmos.
In 'Earth' he employs flutes from various cultures, an Aztec wood
drum, chimes, bells, and guitar to paint the most stirring portrait
of our home planet I have ever heard. The moods flow from the haunts
of primative man to the flowing waters and wooden abode of the
undines and gnomes. One is left so full of the wonder of Earth that
there is no place else to go but 'Space'.
'Space' utilizes synthesizers, clay drums, bamboo flute, stone
chimes, bass clarinet, and soprano sax to raise us to the element of
air, then the planets, and on to the fire of the stars and
cosmos.
In both selections, the music is best absorbed in a state of
meditation, but it also makes an un paralleled cosmic background for
work and play. Guest musician, Bruce Fransen is most elevating on the
soprano sax as his rolling strains raise us from one element to the
next. Sozra is a painter with music who has reached a new plateau in
freeing us from the confines of melody and rhythm to reach for the
stars and galaxies of being. He integrates nature sounds with
heart-felt, mood-setting strains. Earth Space Continuum is as close
to nature as you can get without getting out into it. (copyright
1999)
