December 3, 2015
Sound Peace, The 25th Anniversary Collection, Volume 2
David and Steve Gordon
2009 To celebrate 25 years of their Sequoia Records music label, composer-producer-musician brothers David and Steve Gordon collected some of their best, most blissful tracks for the celebratory album Sound Peace: The 25th Anniversary Collection, Vol. 2. Soothing flutes, water running over rocks, gentle calls of morning birds and evening crickets, wistful piano melodies, and grounding synthesizer pads all ebb and flow around each other in beautiful patterns that suggest the "same page" kind of mental connection shared by two like-minded brothers. The Gordons' "Sound Peace" label has been calming minds, soothing souls, and gentling hearts for a quarter of a century and the 25th Anniversary Collection Volume 2 follows up, of course, Volume 1, with even more of the brothers' best work, creating an environment that makes stress and resentment all but impossible as it weaves the listener into a calming cocoon.
With ambient nature sounds recorded in U.S. locales like Big Sur, Joshua Monument, and the Sequoias, there's a comforting yet eerie stillness to this survey of the brothers' best work, including several previously unreleased tracks. One of these is the haunting "Peace in Every Step," with its serene wooden flute calling as if for a long-flown mate as the country passes by underneath the shadow of echoing electric guitar and calming drones. It's the sort of track that draws you in while remaining slightly aloof; it warms and comforts while always leading you forward into the mystery of the deeper realms of self. "Sonic Massage," another previously unreleased track, is as its namesake suggests - a gentling instrumental of flute, acoustic guitar strums, electric guitar echoes, and the ambient sound of a meadow at night, all working perfectly to make any massage or meditation a thing of profound peace and beauty.
The previously released tracks are also essential, such as "Planet of Forgiveness" and "Soothing Sanctuary," but it's the unreleased stuff that will appeal most to Gordon brothers devotees, and make the acquisition of this collection a must, such as the achingly lovely "Timberline," which consists of a simple, calming piano line over a rushing ambient stream - so simple and yet so profoundly effective, like Steve and David Gordon's work in general. A superbly understated celebration of 25 years of making blissful, calming music, Sound Peace: 25th Anniversary Collection, Volume 2 is something you can grow old with, gently and peacefully, for decades to come.
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