The Green Kingdom - CD review

Tofaki has a great piece on two releases by The Green Kingdom including "Laminae" from The Land Of. Thanks Tofaki!

“Laminae” is so much more than an aural refuge for stressed-out ears, however. The result of years of continued reconsidering, recombining, recomposing and eventually returning to the simplicity of the first, inspired moment, it manages to peal structure and immediacy from essentially free-flowing ambient clouds. Cottone is unafraid of allowing the occasional dissonant Piano tone and impurely plucked Guitar string into his soundscapes, he uses whispery thunderstorms and silently babbling brooks for instruments, sends out pulsating waves on his cosmic Rhodes and builds tension through a careful friction between complete outward harmony and a galaxy of diversely interrelated micro-events underneath the surface. Nothing lasts forever here and sometimes, you find yourself reminiscing that one, irresistible moment of bliss which will never return. But isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?"