V/A - The Mystery Of The Yeti 1

[Guest Pit-UFO]

V/A - The Mystery Of The Yeti 1

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: The Mystery Of The Yeti 1

Label: TIP

Date: 1996

 

Track listing:

 

01. 15'32" The Infinity Project/Hallucinogen/Total Eclipse : The Call / The Journey

02. 14'34" The Infinity Project/Hallucinogen/Total Eclipse : Tribal Gathering

03. 12'02" The Infinity Project/Hallucinogen/Total Eclipse : The Yeti Revelation / Sacred Communication

04. 14'55" The Infinity Project/Hallucinogen/Total Eclipse : Welcome To All Extraterrestrials

 

Review:

 

I'm out of words with this one. Its one of the best Ambient CD´s ever made.

This one really takes you to the roof of the world and has the ability to

describe images, colours and moments with incredibly accuracy and mysticism.

Craft with great patience and lots of inspiration. An ambient masterpiece!

9.8/10

[Guest tj]

This is a golden oldie. If you want to hear beautiful ambient trance then look

no further. It takes you to the Himalaya's.

Rating 10/10

[Guest Mascok]

AMAZING!!!!!!

so beautiful!

Perfect!!!!.

10/10! hehe!

[Guest Zoltar]

Deep relaxing mind trip - Raja Ram is the man. It's totally inhuman music. (

9.5/10 )

[Children]

What can I say ? This album (yes that's more an album than a compilation for

me) is a piece of art ! Track 1 is probably the less good here, but still

interesting ? Track 4 is pretty good too, but Tracks 2&3 (which can be

listened to as a whole, for me both Tracks are a single one) are WONDERFUL

!!!!!! 2 PURE chill-out Tracks ! These Tracks are P.E.R.F.E.C.T !!! I was SURE

Simon And Total Eclipse would create a fantastic sound mixing ? sometimes I

dream that Simon becomes part of Total Eclipse in an ambient side-project :-)

Rating : 8.5/10

[Guest eden.solaris]

Wow!!! After getting my hands on MOTY 2, I couldn't wait to get my hands on

MOTY 1, and I must say that you have as many chances of finding this in a

record store as you would of finding a diamond by digging in your front yard!!!

Unlike Children, I find track 2 rather anoying, but the B-E-S-T one on this

album has to be the last one: it starts rather simple, and then, at about 3:30

the "voice" comes in: "Welcome everybody from this Earth and also

extraterrestrial beigns if there are any and we hope there

are..are..are..are..are..are..." with a distortion effect that makes the

"are..are..are..." sound more like "drugs..drugs..drugs...". It maybe my

imagination, but I could swear it's "drugs" and not "are". Then, the track

really strats: distorted "waterbeats", psychedellic sounds and the wonderful

flute of Raja... then an ambient goa-style melody kicks in... MAGNIFICENT!!!!

The voice reminded me of "The Herb Garden" on MOTY 2... gotta be Simon Posford

messing around with our minds again!!!! 8/10 (the second song REALLY annoys me)

[GEoMaNTiK]

Wicked ambient CD, words can't describe music like this... but a rating of 9/10

might give you an idea of the kind of quality we are talking - go and get it!

[Guest [Anonymous]]

Totally rocking!!!...Ambient @ it's very best...The combined energy of the four

masters @ work can be felt in the tracks...All in all a work of art!

 

Hara Hara Mahadeva, Aum Namah Shivayah

We trust in trance and we love to dance

[Guest b4u2r1[at]hotmail[dot]com]

Excellent! 5 years later I still listen to this. What more can I say!

[Guest voxmachina77[at]hotmail[dot]com]

It has the touch of a really "experienced" musicians, i can really trip with

this music. Its good and it grows inside of you, and lets you hungry in the

end. Fantastic. 9.5/10

[Guest louvranos[at]yahoo.co[dot]uk]

Rare piece of music. Nagual's acting. You can only witness.

[psyhead]

Lovely... So beautiful it hurts. 10/10

[soem aeld]

I wonder why all reviews I've written has dissapered! Good CD! "Welcome To All

Extraterrestrials" is the best track! 8/10

[Guest gothsoul[at]poczta[dot]fm]

What can i said... about this amazing, beautiful CD? If you like deep, pure,

weird ambient from other dimension just go to the shop (or if you don't have

money - download) and buy IT!. I have open mind for music, cause i listen a

lots of kinds... (from metal...to ambient), but this cd just kick my ass into

other reality. My fav is track 2, but rest of tracks is also awesome. I have

olny one bad suggestion... why it is so short ?????? :) :) i want

moreeeeeeee

[Guest GoaPhreak[at]Shpongle[dot]com]

I love this album! really nice ambient work here. Simon's work is very great on

this one! i've bought the second part, but still can't find this one! dunno

where to buy it! help me!

[Guest tita.laz[at]caramail[dot]com]

it's a very very super

[Honguito]

Describing this compilation is impossible because the words I would have to use

just don't exist. There are no words that can give a fair review of this

album. This is so good that I don't know what to do. Cry? Masturbate? Smile?

Dance? I don't know!! You have to listen to it by yourself to find out. I'm

simply out of words. Ta ta, I give it 10/10 without any hesitation. My

favourites are track 2 and 4 for the moment but I guess this varies with your

current state of mind

[Guest [Anonymous]]

Track 4 is Fucking Amazing, others are good too exept track 2

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[DeathPosture]

I'm with 'ser@phim' here... This really IS perfect! ;o)I'll NEVER grow tired of

listening to this, and I'm sure I'll still listen to when I'm retired! ;o)

10/10

[Guest MG]

As I write this review I am preparing for a stoning (The Painful, objective

flying at the current subjective's head kind). I was disappointed all the way

up until track 4. Do yourselves a favour; Get Part 2 of this series, Tipworld

5 & The Infinity Project - Mystical Experiences. To my ears at least, they

sound better than this CD does. It was recorded a while ago but so was the 1st

Shpongle album and that album holds up very well (Get that too). I can't rate

this out of 10, I can only suggest getting this for collection purposes.

[Guest MG]

I also have a hard time identifying the Posford factor within each of these

songs, I dare say these are the least Posfordy tracks the master has ever

produced to date (Even Celtic Cross has more of the Posford touch, Which by

the way is also better than this CD).

[Guest Davidtolsn]

ok, simon was involved, and it's chill out. THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S GOOD. track

by track, 01:what the hell is this? 15 minutes of... nothing??? this is as

ambient as ambient gets, but there is no music involved, it's just sounds. for

an intro it would be nice, but after 15 minutes... 0/10. 02: has potential,

but that melody BUGS THE FUCK OUT OF ME. there's parts of the song where i'm

like, yes, it's getting good and then... (insert annoying melody). not only is

it bad it's way overused. even without it it would only be an average chill

song. 1/10. 03: getting much better. for me, the highlight of the cd. this is

basically a continuation of the last track but without the annoying sound

nearly as much. nice atmospheric psychedelia and a lovely flute line. 8/10.

04: another pretty good track. although it kind of drags on, it's at least a

lot closer to what i would hope for coming from artists like this. 7/10. 5/10

for the cd, far from a masterpiece in my eyes, check out some of the later

works instead and download track 3 on mp3.

[cttkba]

yes, incredible ambient music, the best album for me

10/10

[abasio]

Mystery of the Yeti

The Mystery of the Yeti

TIP Records

Released 1996

Released as a 2CD along with The Infinity Project - Mystical Experiences in 2004

 

Tracklist

 

01. The Call / The Journey 15:32

02. Tribal Gathering 14:34

03. The Yeti Revelation / Sacred Communication 12:02

04. Welcome To All Extraterrestrials 14:55

 

What can I say about this album? A collaboration between The Infinity Project, Hallucinogen & Total Eclipse, who individually have crafted some of the most amazing, intricate, mind expanding psychedelic music. You might think that too many cooks spoil the broth which may often be true. Think of those hip hop "crews" that end up sounding like a bunch of teenagers jockeying for position, competing to be the front man. It sounds amateur, shit & pointless. But when all the cooks are top chefs, then it's different. Take the Wu-Tang Clan, loads of them and each one a genious. It's the same here. Each musician is a genious & they all bring something special to the broth & work it in well with what the others bring.

The result, an hour long journey through the majesty that is our natural world & the intricate reaches of our inner space. Everything has a sci fi feel. When it's ambient when it's goa when it's in the jungle, up a mountain in outer space in your mind!

The Call/The Journey

 

It starts off cold with the sound of the wind blowing outside & hard dark jabs of sound with a low primal wail like some electronic beast which briefly morphs into a shaman's songs at times. All of a sudden it comes alive with bird song & some tribal chanting. A tribe is celebrating but it's interrupted by more familiar sounds. A Frenchman, a dog, a cow change the chant! Moving on is a new chant sung by children it seems with a nice little melody in the background.

This track takes many different turns throughout, next is very watery like on a shore with tribesmen playing drums in the water, a nice wet beat with lots of shouting. But we pass that into another tribe which we pass & we're into a pack of feral wolves & strange animals flying around our heads. Among these creatures come ethereal voices coming from the darkness that whisper their intent before a storm hits bringing a god's wrath & an almost tuneless melody.

It's an incoherent track, but it's a journey along the river passing many different things. Despite it's incoherence it sets a dark expectant mood. A very nice piece of ambience.

 

Tribal Gathering

 

Much more energy right from the start with a tribal beat & nice synths accompanied by a short repetitive melody. The randomness of the journey has passed & I really feel like we are on our way. I get a sense that the music is building & taking me somewhere. Some very subtle flutes come in here & there floating about effortlessly. Sometimes a little louder, sometimes barely noticeable.

A great building track with the changes almost unnoticeable but the effects all to too apparent. It sits well as background music but if you immerse yourself in it you can end up lost. Especially when it calms down, the flutes & the melodies can fly your mind away to cold distant lands. The beats kick in again towards the end but they seem softer & more distant now as my mind has been transported away & I'm in such a state of calm.

 

The Yeti Revelation/Sacred Communication

 

The flutes dominate this track even when they are not in. I'm thinking about them, expecting them to come in at any moment & remembering what they sound like. To be honest they are (at least on the 1st listen) probably hidden behind other sounds, the drone, the synths the little stabs of melody but on my millionth listen or whatever this is, the flute fills my head. It's not until about halfway through that an equally engrossing melody tempts you away from the flute & dumps you into a climbing synth & a twisted tribal vocal, deep forest style. The flutes while not completely dispelled from my thoughts have taken a back seat & they allow me to be enthralled by the rest. Still though in the back of my mind I'm waiting for them to come back in & I can hear them in the other sounds, the wails, the melodies the beats all sound like they contain the flutes. True dominance.

 

A Welcome to All Extra Terrestrials

 

This has the same cold dark feeling as the opening track but it seems much higher like I'm standing on top of the highest peak of this mountain range. The flutes are

much more prominent but less dominant than their previous incarnation. My mind is very much focused on what is coming next. A trippy vocal welcoming the extra terrestrial life comes out before a weird tripped out beat & alien sounds float about. Another building track, layered & tiered. The longer it goes on the deeper we go & when it changes suddenly like stopping the beat & introducing a long sample I feel like I'm falling deeper still. The crazy, random breakdown feels like a further fall and the re:emergence of the steady beat feels like a steady slide down the inner reaches. Deeper deeper until the flutes at the end flush you out into the open air gasping for breath back at the foot of the mountain marveling at the majesty of m\what has just happened.

A perfect ending to a marvelous journey.

 

 

A special mention needs to be given to Raja Ram's flute playing here, on other albums I've been left less than impressed but here, his simple style really added to the journey.