Courageous, patient, sublime
Bill Beck | Bridgeton, NJ USA | 06/29/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"We've all had music pass our way which takes its place within us and profoundly enhances our journey through life. "Maitreya: the Future Buddha," stunningly beautiful, has been riding in me for just about a month now. The transcendencies offered on this CD are not quite like anything David Parsons has created before. "Maitreya" lacks of his escalating, yet deepening, progressions of extreme intensification, found on works such as "Himalaya"; or of his typical rhythmic structures, found on the likes of "Shaman" or "Ngaio Gamelan". Instead, what the listener experiences this time around is a journey somehow even more profound; a journey piloted by a vision of extreme sounding and restraint; a journey made possible through a sophisticated textural work of meditation and supreme craftmanship. Though the course has somewhat altered, in the same breath I can conversely state that "Maitreya; the Future Buddha" takes the soundworlds of Parsons' past and hones these down, here, to gemlike perfection. It's placid, it's perfectly fibered, it's revelatory, and it's the best piece of music I've heard in a very long time."
Greatest CD I have in a collection of 500
Andy Todes | 05/17/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I'm truly staggered to find only two album reviews ahead of mine.Good Lord, people. Here is some of the sublimest music ever conceived by the mind of man.If you own a set of headphones, if you possess a capacity for infinite wonder, if you wish to thrum to the mysterious and gorgeous waves of the universe, then you simply cannot make a better purchase for [the price]. A small sum in return for the trillion billion miles you will travel."
Meditative music
David F. Mamrak | Pennsylvania | 06/05/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I have all of David Parsons previous albums and this one is the most meditative music by far. I play this disc before dropping off to sleep. I recommend this music to all listeners of David Parsons and those who like Eastern flavored electronic music."