In a Garden of Eden

The liner notes of the seven-track In a Garden of Eden release make a number of vaguely flaky claims; it was created for use in a "technomystical chill room" in Goa, India, uses a process of "sublingual hypgnosis" to induce a "theta state" in the listener's brain and actually warns against driving an automobile or operating heavy machinery while listening to it. The record is the sort of thing one would expect after reading this; a completely ambient collection of synth washes and burbles of the mellowest variety, occasionally verging on new age territory and always retaining a soothing appeal. How much of this is due to "sublingual hypgnosis" is anyone's guess, but the album serves as well as any other release of this sort — it's not an artistic or musical entry into the ambient world, but simply a collection of soothing tones to space out to.