Meg Bowles follows-up her excellent ambient project "A Quiet Light" with "The Shimmering Land", which invites you to journey along half-forgotten vine-covered paths, into those 'shadowy places' only hinted-at in ancient legends, and lore. A musical excursion across the mythical Avalons, or deep forays into classical vision-quests of half-forgotten dreamworlds. You will experience this, and much more; listening to "The Shimmering Land", and wonder is it really there, or just a mirage? Your set sail upon the 'Undalant Sea' where you start your odyssey to the very end of reality. A siren's song beckons you into 'The Sweetness of Mist' just ahead of those fog-bound, hidden shoals. This is primal ambient fare, much in the same vein, as that sound composed in Thom Brennan's excellent "Mist" album. All of this is very cinematic, and invites some inevitable comparisons to Jon Jenkins, and Dave Luxton's ambient projects as well. Meg Bowles, is one of the top female composers in the ambient realm, along with fellow artists: Constance Demby, Stephanie Sante, and Asmodelle. She first came to my attention by way of the excellent "Blue Cosmos" CD, which puts her in the rarefied company of such heavyweights as: Jonn Serrie, Max Corbacho, Dan Pound, and Rudy Adrian. "The Shimmering Land" is in my opinion her best offering to date. Highly Recommended.
