1.	Dreamgate	7' 03
	2.	A Secret Place	6' 03
	3.	Lucid Phantom	6' 28
	4.	Pulse of Transforming Trees	8' 55
	5.	Moonloop	12' 50
	6.	Any Colours You Wish	8' 49
	7.	Distant Darkland	6' 56
	8.	The Fifth Key	16' 15
	9.	Horama	3' 57
	Total:		77' 21
	All music composed, performed and produced by Amir Baghiri 2001-2002. Recorded, edited and mixed at the BlueBox, Lemgo, Germany, by Amir Baghiri. Concept by Amir Baghiri & Gabriele von Hardenberg. Published by Neuronium Records, Spain 2002. Final editing and digital mastering by Jeremy Arenberg and Amir Baghiri at Ambience 1, Bielefeld-NRW. Artwork & complete design of booklet by Michel Huygen.
This album is dedicated to my children.	Amir Baghiri: additive FM and analogue synthesizers, distant powerslide & panjab clay flute, ney and ocarinas, persian tombak & frame drums, percussion programming, multidimensional ambient and groove creation, tibetan gongs and various chimes, stones & waters, processor programming, processed subliminal nature sound and distant guitars, various shakers, rainstick and some forgotten objects!
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Review 1

Dreamresources

Like so many electronic ambient artists, Amir Baghiri keeps churning out the releases one after another. His latest work tackles one of the least understood phenomenon in our world, the world of dreams and sleep. And on top of that, trying to portray the whole feeling just in music is a feat in itself. However, succeeding where so many others have failed, in my opinion, he manages to tap into the sound that maybe our unconscious mind can listen to while we're asleep.

I want to go beyond or maybe not try to approach the whole underlying concept of this work, and just speak from one listening to it as nice ambient music. In my opinion, ambient music should create a relaxing ambience, one in which you can meditate, drift away or fall asleep to. This album is great in this way. After the first track that includes some hypnotic tribal rhythms, the music then ebbs and sways in and out through different sounds that gradually become less and less obtrusive.

Because of the nature of this work, no single track really stands out from the others, but each long mystical track blends well with the other. Finally, it all comes to a close as it slowly fades to silence.

© Jacob Bogedahl (http://www.gothicparadise.com/amir.htm)

 

Review 2

Dreamresources

If your own resources are lacking, Amir Baghiri is here to provide potent fodder for dreams of any type... day or night, Dreamresources emits lustrous ambiance of the highest calib

The Dreamgate swings open into a primitive, beat-pummeled land where encroaching mists set the sky alight and... dogs bark? That particularly beaty realm is abandoned in favor of steamier abstractions, like the boiling gleams and shadows of A secret place; stunningly vague atmospheres swirl in varying viscocities. Equally as lovely (and intriguingly formless) are the vaporous currents of Lucid phantom ... and pretty much each of the remaining pieces!

As its title implies, Any colour you wish gives your imagination plenty of options; go wherever you want on these silken streams... is it like slow-motion cloudsurfing? Swimming through luminous jello? Uphill skiing on some otherworldly slope? Going fetal in warm embryonic fluids? Compelling Distant darkland hints at roughness, as faint rumbles scrape the otherwise-preternaturally-serene environments.

See the above descriptions and stretch them into a longer piece; the eighth track, The fifth key (16:14), unlocks even more-expansive soundscenes where barely-tangible drones whisper in longform sky-tidal passages, occasionally accented with starshine sparkles. The final flows (and ebbs) of Horama (3:57) are awash with luxurious pacing and incomprehensible beauty... so fine!

With synthesizers and restrained usage of a host of other (hardly recognizable) instruments, Amir Baghiri (with help from family and friends) spins near-nothingess into amazing amounts of wondrously oblique ephemera. Clocking in at over 77 minutes, Dreamresources makes for must-experience listening, and has graced many of my midnights... A+

A wonderful release.

AmbiEntrance © 2002-1997 by David J Opdyke

 

Review 3

Amir Baghiri - DreamResources

DreamResources is a classic electro-tribal release from Amir Baghiri, one of the giants of that style. It is a great CD! This psychoacoustic music, while not quite psychoactive, certainly stimulates the serotonin and messes with the uptake. The atmospheres are gray and brown. The textures are soft. The timbres are organic. This promotes active and lucid dreaming to new levels of understanding. This is, undoubtedly, Amir's best CD to date. His maturation as a sound designer and as a composer is evident. His development as a performer is exponential. (Most folks reading this review are seeing it on line. So, click on something and buy this disc!)

© Jim Brenholts, Ambient Navigator