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Spectral - Avalon

A top mission of mine is to seek non-mainstream, relatively obscure, high quality climactic, resplendent & hauntingly beautiful music: as Powerful and Soul-stirring as possible. It has to have a timeless, universal appeal, soaring strings that could split one's heart open, at least one live instrument, a possible beat,  preferably be instrumental (no vocals), be of impeccable production, and, of course, be staggeringly beautiful.

I have been collecting from every nook and cranny (thrift stores, tracker modules, video games, tv shows, etc...), for quite a long while.

If you think I'd love a track, please send it to me!

(Arguably) The top fifteen most beautiful musical masterpieces I have, so far, ever heard (updated 12/2024):

1.  Aria (Paul Schwartz): Horizon
2. Vanessa-Mae: The Blessed Spirits
3. Sarah Brightman: Deliver Me (4. tie with Dead Can Dance: The Host of Seraphim)
5. Hovhaness: Prayer of Saint Gregory, Op. 62b
6. Mari Samuelsen: White Flowers Take Their Bath
7. Vanessa-Mae: Widescreen
8. Orlando Soundtrack (1994): Pavanne
9. Conni Ellisor: Dream Trilogy
10. Goldfrapp: Hairy Trees
11. Vangelis: Roxane's Veil
12. Supervielle: Decollage
13. Aria (Paul Schwartz): Furioso
14. Depeche Mode: One Caress
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(My strange journey to Electronic Music: Mortal Kombat led me to the music aligned with my soul, because Mortal Kombat, at 15, led me back to myself and gave me a sort of rebirth. The Immortals put out a Mortal Kombat CD to go with the video game (hot tracks: "Scorpion", "Kano", "Hypnotic House"), and the 1995 film soundtrack to Mortal Kombat the Movie, was some of my first introduction to EDM. I intuited a way forward to something untamed, powerful like a gale, and driven inside of me, yearning to be known. I had listened to "club dance" music before, but this was different: underground, deep, primal, sexy, kaleidoscopic, badass, intense, cryptic, evocative of higher spheres of thought, unifying, and it revived like mother's milk. It was a language I could effortlessly understand. This was my path; listening, I peered into the slumbering, swirling rising power within the collective - a delicious underground rebellion - and within myself (and it must be known that EDM was created by and for marginalized communities.) I felt I was being invited to participate in something enormous. The film soundtrack introduced me to Orbital's "Halcyon and On and On", and the rest is history, because my life had begun. Since this also happened to so many other people, I have to conclude that the universe is... holographic. 
[The music may definitely be off-putting to those that cannot stomach its repetitive, even robotic elements. Those of us that can find in EDM trance-inducing states of consciousness, reminiscent of indigenous shamanism.] )

Spectral - Avalon

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