Music Review #1: Lone

As part of a new installment of blog entries, I have decided to create reviews of music artists whose music is particularily unique in that it shifts the listener’s consciousness to a higher level, where a feeling of the higher echelons of reality may be experienced. As with the films reviewed in this blog, the music reviews will cater to a very specific niche of manifested creation in the form of musical harmonics. As will become evident, the majority of the music artists reviewed in this blog can be said to revolve around the IDM, Downtempo, Ambient, and similar electronic genres. With that said, I present to you…

Lone

Although only debuting his music in the summer of 2008, the young artist known as Lone has been getting the attention of many individuals, particularly those who love the sounds of Boards of Canada. What makes Lone so unique? Well first of all, his album entitled Lemurian is unlike anything you have ever heard. Although it may be compared to the likes of Boards of Canada or Flying Lotus, Lone is on a whole different level. His music, which can be referred to as a mixture of Boards of Canada, Flying Lotus, Casino versus Japan, and Black Moth Super Rainbow, has the nostalgic sounds of the 70s and 80s nature and educational programs that existed, combined with a very upbeat and feel-good vibe of the ocean breeze on a  summer day.

One can definitely appreciate his musical abilities to produce such warm and enchanting harmonics that truly do make a person feel like they are in a fantastic mythical land like Lemuria, which is the premise of the album title. Indeed, one can definitely see the Boards of Canada inspiration for his music but I perceive that is an extremely good thing. The music Lone produces does not produce the same states of consciousness as BoC does. I feel Lone’s music is more etheric and of a higher level of consciousness that transcends petty and minuscule daily events and allows one to venture into higher dimensions of being.

When applying Lone’s music in a meditation session, I felt a monumentally-greater connection to the higher dimensions of reality than I would with most other music. It was even quite a surprise to me, since I did not expect for these elegant side-chained and breakbeat harmonics to create such a profound consciousness shift. Inner Peace and radiant joy emanate from you while you listen to the music and I certainly would recommend it for someone who would plan on listening to his music during a meditation session, combined with whatever other enhancements you feel would transform the experience into one of absolute spiritual bliss.

Since Lone is very new to the commercial music scene, his music may be a bit difficult to acquire, but I have found that you can buy his CD directly from the music label here, as well as an alternate online music store here.

His music Myspace can be found here