i know this thread is old, and this album is old, but i just recently started to listen to it
i saw darshan at lost theory in 2014, and was totally blown away... lots of chemicals involved, but still, i got the feeling that i never heard that kind of music before... like he was playing his sound backwards...
after the festival i listened to spectre, but that album failed to deliver, and i forgot about darshan for a long time..
after once again becoming obsessed with chasing the sound ive heard years ago, i finally listened to awakening... while its not exactly how i remember him playing live, its the closest thing ive found yet...
a dark, vibrating, very dense tapestry of sound... and i normally dont even like dark goa, since i dont like the monotony or the evil vibes...
darshan manages to be dark without any trace of evil, more like melancholy... and the sound is soft instead of harsh... pure YIN!
so my verdict, based on a not-too thourough knowledge of the psytrance genre: 10/10, my favourite trance album of all time
so the real question, that i subscribed to this forum just to ask:
can someone please point me to similar sound? id be very grateful... i tried a couple of recommendations ive found (green nuns of the revolution, headscan, talamasca), and while its good sound, nothing really matches this one album