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Sphinx

from PARALLEL TIME (1993) by INDRA

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Much more musical than 'Prophet', the second track 'Sphinx' is simply wonderful. It’s a long hypnotic title which is strongly impregnated by the influences of Berlin School with a meditative progressive rhythm hammered by incise percussion of which the striking, sometimes metal sounds appear in the mist of Hinduism fragrances.
A synth with honeyed winds of the Middle East opens the intro. A rich intro where the paradisaical breaths are wrapped by crisscrossed synth strata which drop its choirs and limpid tones of crystal. This mesmerizing movement of morphic waltz stretches its sparks of desires beyond the first beatings of percussion, rooting the sensuality of an intro which does not stop merging in the strange lasciviousness of a movement which nevertheless goes on the borders of perdition.
A little before the 8th minute the percussion fall with more heaviness and vigor, masking a bit the tones of suave flutes which emerge from the synths and giving so a second life to 'Sphinx'. A life imprinted by a sensual and cerebral magnetism. Wandering choirs smell the limping rhythm. It’s a slow and heavy rhythm, as a hypnotic groovy, which skips with a mixture of percussion and metallic jingles. INDRA adds to it some splendid and attractive synth layers with tones as much striking as surprising which whip up the senses and calm the heaviness of the strikings of percussion of which the hypnotic pounding oversize its dodecaphonic approach.
And so 'Sphinx' goes on and displays its 30 minutes as a slow cerebral trance where the rhythm is of use as pretext to a musical painting to thousand eclectic breaths and where the magic of INDRA settles its first real daring ramifications which will serve the versatility of the Romanian synth-spirit through his many works to come. This title is a pure marvel of electronic minimalist music.
(Sylvain Lupari (Canada) - synthsequences.blogspot.ro )

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from PARALLEL TIME (1993), released October 5, 2013

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INDRA

“Music can be a truly magical element, provided it is sublimely conceived in a spirit of pure, profound and harmonious ideas.”


The music of INDRA is remarkable for its well realised construction, smart nuances, lack of monotony – which in many cases crowns electronic music -, carrying also its own unmistakable imprint.
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