FOUNTAINHEAD
Cloud Cover
(c) (p) 1998 Aucourant Records
9tks/69mins

Enigmatic, mysterious and misty. Soft, tender and delicate. Peaceful, moving and flowing. All these epithets are quite suitable for the music of Fountainhead, the new project, released by Aucourant Records.

Cloud Cover is a classical ambient. This is a music, which invites us to immerse into the depths of unknown, other worlds or abandon ourselves to a solitary contemplation. It creates a specific surrounding, covers a listener, and gives him an opportunity to concentrate on the things, he considers most important for the moment. Still, if we would stop only on this aspect of the album music, one more important detail would be missing: Cloud Cover is good as a not unobtrusive background. You can not hear the music attentively, but just use it as a rather intelligent helper for various activities. And this is the advantage of the album (as well as the advantage of the classical ambient!).

Sometimes a little bit gloomy, sometimes more light - but you can be sure that it is never pressing - the music of Fountainhead gives the impression of space. With the help of this music you can enter your inner space or just feel it. This music can be attributed to minimalism. And these very means of expression are good to feel the infinity of both inner and external worlds.

And so, while listening to the Cloud Cover, you can not be bored, and you just wish to swim in the flowing, airy streams, created by the Fountainhead...

Serge Kozlovsky