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Avalon – Distant Future (Nano Records)
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Welcome to the debut album of Leon Kane, a talented person with a nifty ear and hefty sense for psychedelic trance in that lovely and gliding UK style which so many of us love. By now Leon Kane should be no stranger for the lot of you who digs this style with his involvement in Reality Grid which was a co-operation with Alex EVP from Wildthings Records. Avalon's rip-roaring tunes has been tried and tested with big success on dance floors all over, like his many appearances on varies festivals like Glade2009, Burning Man 09, Universo Paralello 10 and many more across the plains of Europe, Australia and Japan.
With the support and acknowledgement of Nano Records, Leon has gone developing his own solo project called, Avalon (Which is said to be a paradise island where King Arthur was carried after his death). When listening to Avalon you should be aware of its complex nature and sublime features of advanced trance skills in that proper UK way of putting the Psy in Trance with non-cheesadelic melodic features for the layer fanatics.
Avalon – Distant Future (Nano Records) 2010 (nanoocd023)
Cover Artwork: http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2241276
01. Play It Bahia 6:53
02. Into The New World 6:38 Vs - Dickster
03. Teleporter 8:15
04. Destiny Awaits (Avalon Rmx) 7:04 Vs - Cosmosis
05. Funky Voodoo 6:54 Vs - G-nome
06. Out There 8:18
07. Another Planet 7:12 Vs - Tristan
08. Swamp Funk 7:11
09. Distant Futures 7:01
10. Opus Pokus 6:43
Join me as we fly through his ten tracks with and without respected working partners:
1. Calling all trippers, warning all flippers.. Bahia is here to play his tunes from a fractal present inside an alienated yet familiar landscape where some Indians once roamed in claustrophobic forms. This is a place where spirits gather in holy dance and solid trance. The bassline is steady with floating elements on top making it all feel like a jingoistic take-off of delight in flight. We like this, eh.. the eternal (?). ****
2. Into the New World where mysticism and strange tokens rises on the deep atmospheres becoming rocket fueled starships gliding carefully yet strong into the unknown essence of one’s own emotional depths. Psytronical insect-like creatures communicates through clicks and blips. This might be the instruments inside your astral craft roaming through intergalactic stars and acid iced forests. It’s absolutely beautiful the colours it shines towards you, and may it bring in its future path; No rules where nothing can go wrong! This is defiantly a cruising track observed from inside a flying object. ******
3. As the Teleporter energizes itself to become ready and self-aware the heavier beats gather in flickering motions with hallucinogenic effects surrounding your being in acidic manners and it’s time to get teleported in lotus positions to another stage of faith. ‘Why does he care so much about the past? Maybe he thought he could change it..’ *****
4. As Destiny Awaits, the funk is on a groove and the effects seems to be on a echoing roll sliding it’s acid troll inside a metaphorical trip, so watch out, don’t slip! It’s your destiny to join us, only effort and guidance in right directions of selective protections will help you through the ketamin glue. *****
5. Where we have come is something to be undone but never unsung, the tribalization is in synchronized harmony of guiding trumpets and misfit stompers - Beauty in a space jungle, Funky in the Voodoo magic. You do, who do? I’ll tell you what I believe; ‘Shit happens’. ****
6. Out There someone is teaching people to use their head, now the point is that in order to use your head; You have to go out of your mind as it is a fleeing possession we all cherish to dwell on not seeing that we are more than the shallow mind and it’s protective reactions to what our true being is dealing with. Our cosmic unity has as many incredible layers and powers with astonishing self realizations as the music at hand. Musical evolution which states the fact that there is only a fractal-self, there is just the sense of to ‘be’ while observing and watching what and where the mind wanders without care *****
7. .. the mind travels to Another Planet where fruitful growth and inner education to a state where one manages to find underlying peace in any situation. The mind is calm while the body is busy dancing to joyful sounds selected by life that might as well be found on a distant planet far away near enough to be seen with eyes closed on a state of being open for informational transcendence. ******
8. Flickering lights and rusty pipes with jumping flights Swamps the Funk towards psychedelic junk in a magnificent and swirling trunk. Quirky tempo and respectful thoughts comes out to another floor with interstellar slurries attaching the grind and making smiles shine. *****
9. In the view of Distant Futures we seem to not be moving through time but time is passing through intellectual moves and gravitational grooves. Drops of hope carries the deep kicks while melting all realities into one reaccepting sense of wellbeing and ultimate understanding of how the universe might for all we know be a self-inflicted intelligence test trying to realize itself through our own eternal consciousness of profound understanding. ****
10. Jungle rain makes the dried potatoes go insane. Juggling beats is nothing to defeat. Opus Pokus is about that special composition exhilarating our chakras making the world morph into a truer self than what seemed possible at first peak, until the magic starts to dance in advance. To create a thought, an idea, a sound with the mind is not always an easy task, now imagine that you where to create the whole universe with the very power of your own thought.. *****
Recommendation: Now there is something utterly alluring by the way some of these UK chaps manages to produce such complex and vivid music that just seem to fly in subtlety psychedelic trance. It’s the many layers with touches of pleasurable groove and refreshing funk that excites; it’s the willingness to not go over the top with melodies and craziness that puts it on a divine dinner table for the wizards to feed on the many details placed around to create what it eventually manages to create – Bliss and mystery.
So what’s the downside with this release then? Well, without liquid goggles and fancy pants, it becomes generic and lost too fast. It’s definitely a pleasurable listen, but breathtaking and ear-catching to follow in its own distinct characteristics, not so obvious..
It should be mentioned with loud words that the cover artwork by Android and the acid reflection of a lost Mayan city inside the cover artwork by Anton Kononov is absolutely spectacular!
All in all I find myself really enjoying this release because it truly succeed to draw you into its magical realm where surprises keeps on coming and dropping out leaving you breathless with a giggling sanity for a smile. For those with fine tuned ears there is such honorable complexity in the composition that one must wonder where they get it from (must be something in the water, must be .. ). So if you like your FullOn to be psychedelic with trance inducing flow and groove, please check this one out – It should turn you on!
Favorite tracks: 1, 2(!!), 3(!), 4(!), 5, 6(!), 7(!!), 8(!), 9, 10(!)
Some sort of score: 4.9 / 7 stars.
Where to buy and other links:
Nano Records: http://www.nanorecords.co.uk
AvaleonSpace: http://www.myspace.com/avaleon
Discogs: http://www.discogs.c...tist/Avalon+(9)
Psyshop: http://www.psyshop.c.../nar1cd023.html
Saikosounds: http://www.saikosoun...?artist_id=7222
Beatspace: http://beatspace.com...lio.asp?id=5543
Beatport: https://www.beatport...0a&a486-index=3
Wirikuta: http://www.wirikuta....owDetail=237372
Juno.co.uk: http://www.juno.co.u...ighlight=AVALON
Play.com: http://www.play.com/...es/Product.html
More traveling reviews: http://www.myspace.com/psytonesmusic
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Posted : Apr 22, 2010 11:17
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Its that generic-ness that bothers me.
Most interesting track is the one with Dick Trevor, nothing breathtaking/groundbreaking etc etc in the hole album.
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Posted : Apr 22, 2010 13:20
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I don't know if I managed to explain it good in my review but the sound
is its own, it is sort of unique, for sure. But from distance it does sound like generic
Quality psychedelic trance, inside it will reveal its own stories and
Temples, that’s for sure.
This is the case with loads of releases, that it sounds like generic-psytrance when not inside the music, but as soon as one steps inside it in DAT proppa way, it totally reveals it's uniqueness and psychedelic beauty. I had this feel with many others, like Tristan - Chemisphere, Braincell - Multiverse etc.
The case is easy. You want quality psychedelic fullon trance with that authentic acid touch, enjoy this album. If you'd like more ,,easy listening" psytrance with fluffy emotions and easy to catch trippyness, don't even bother.
This psy here is in the sublimity, not in your face. - I don't want to advocate too much about acidDruqs and its power to reveal the true nature of some psyTrance, but this CD unless you have the ear and taste for it already, is definitely PsyTrance best viewed with psychedelics in mind..
Peace out and be nice,
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Posted : Apr 22, 2010 16:05
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- I don't want to advocate too much about acidDruqs and its power to reveal the true nature of some psyTrance, but this CD unless you have the ear and taste for it already, is definitely PsyTrance best viewed with psychedelics in mind..
Peace out and be nice,
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I am not going to comment on the music (besides a couple of bassline riffs that are proper driving) as it is simply not the stuff I am into, but anything that otherwise sounds generic, sounds psychedelic when you've dropped a fat one, that is the beauty of good acid anyway 
Anyhow its the stuff that gets played on the big slots in big festivals, so in that aspect, its another solid release from Nano. Other than that, I am eagerly awaiting for the Master Blasters album which in my opinion, is the one that has "that authentic acid touch" you mentioned and not the "fluffy emotions" that takes the "psy" out of "psy-trance".
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gutter
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Posted : Apr 22, 2010 16:18
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All the guys at Nano really know how to write a super danceble tune that works on dancefloors etc etc ok we all know that, respect to them
But i listen more and more the same thing and ive started to get bored from this repetitiveness, their own style chewed and chewed again and again
Nectarios is right, im waiting for the Master Blasters album as well which has new movement, new grooves, new sounds and new structure and different mixing aspect, things that give each artist a signature
Just Avalon doesnt have it for me, this album sound generic
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Posted : Apr 22, 2010 16:23
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Having said all that though, I'd much rather listen to the repetitive sound of Nano, than the tripe that gets the main slots in big parties. Its a beggars can't be choosers situation now days.
Anyhow the tune that grabbed me was the Tristan collaboration.
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Posted : Apr 22, 2010 16:26
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so disappointed........nothing like Nano recs
such a bland album with no new directions.......
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Posted : Apr 22, 2010 16:30
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so disappointed........nothing like Nano recs
such a bland album with no new directions.......
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Nothing like the Nano Records of early 2000, yes, but this has the Nano records sound of the last few years, written all over it.
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Justin Chaos
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Posted : Apr 22, 2010 18:00
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What are you on about people?
Seriously, this is solid as a rock!!!
It has loads of spirit, fantastically well driven, on the edge of madness at many points...of course crystal clear production, maybe that's why you're getting bored about, I tend to think about that when I see high quality releases getting gunned down on forums, maybe people's getting tired of a genre as such, anyway...why even bother on checking such labels then???
I just don't get it, specially when it comes to an artist that is in such high demand all over the globe and who has consistently delivered on his live performances everywhere.
Great album, and while 2 users are bothered by the "genericness" of it, the album is on the beatport's top 10 doing extremely well...so I don't think Nano's that concerned over this.
Righty-O...to each his own I suppose
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Posted : Apr 22, 2010 18:39
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to each his own, but i really like this album
i have been listening to the whole progression in the nano/alchemy/vagalume sound over the years and what i hear makes me smile
this album takes that sound and adds to it something magical - listening to tunes like teleporter you cant help but get your dancing shoes on
i think in comparison to other releases from nano, avalon is more energetic - something more along the lines of what chromatone/everblast bring to nano
all in all - an awesome album, and for fans of groovey intricate music i would highly recommend it
cheers!
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Posted : Apr 22, 2010 19:36
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Im in love with this album... played almost every song in my dj set... and still keep on listening at my house!
I hope nano release of lot of music like this... this is nothing like nano in the early 2000... this is MUCH better!
hugs pedrao
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Posted : Apr 22, 2010 20:53
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Addictive Elements
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Posted : Apr 24, 2010 14:58
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Wat is this "Master Blaster"album yourll speak about ?
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Posted : Apr 25, 2010 08:44
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Excellent album..Nano records has delivered another great stuff for summer
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Posted : Apr 25, 2010 16:24
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By no means ground breaking but a solid debut release.Lets see how he can progress from now. |
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