Robert Davies - The Alchemy of Nature [2012] [Album] [FLAC]

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From the label/artist:
Composed over the latter half of 2011, this new ambient collection from Robert Davies further solidifies his name as a leading light in pastoral ambient. These six tracks seem to meld into a sustained aural treatise, revealing a more intimate, veiled, and perhaps mystical side of nature. Both relaxing, immersive, and exquisite, this is a work to nestle down with and simply let it work its magic.
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The Alchemy of Nature project was inspired by the relationship between man and nature, particularly involving man s studies and experiments with plants, stones, etc., from earlier times. The word alchemy , to me, conjures up something of the mystical, which suggests something spiritual in the relationship itself between man and nature s elements later relegated to a colder, more clinical scientific approach , or so it would seem, within the realm of typical Western thought and culture (unlike, of course, many native peoples who have always held nature in a higher, sacred reverence). I would like to think, in my overly-romanticized notions, that it is possible for man to explore nature s elements in their full, bountiful array while still retaining a certain reverence for it. Robert Davies