Sam Rosenthal. The Passage.

A foray into the realms of pure ambient from Black Tape For A Blue Girl founder Sam Rosenthal. This is music that gently rotates around its own axis in a time-suspended haze. The track “The Passage” originated as the blissed-out 16-minute closer to 1999’s Blacktape CD As One Aflame Laid Bare By Desire. It would take over a decade for the composition to resurface when Rosenthal began work on the score for Mark A. Michaels & Patricia Johnson’s guided-meditation set, Ananda Nidra. “Rae,” the last ten minutes of the album, adds a new element to the work. Stacking the shimmering harmonics of long-standing Blacktape collaborator and violinist Vicki Richards into a sonorous cathedral dome, “Rae“ spirals higher and higher before fading away into a grateful silence.