Track Listing

1. From The Spring
2. Into A World Of Wonder
3. Flow
4. Night Drifting Through Black Canyon
5. Cross Over
6. The Power/Washed Away
7. Breathing In The Deep
8. A Word With The Vine
9. Blood And Water
10. Part Of The Solution: I. And The Tears Flow Too II. The Swallowing Sea III. A Warrior's Last Stand
11. Ebb

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #101182 in Music
• Released on: 1998-10-06
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Delving deep into the viscosity of life, Jon Jenkins masterfully engages the metaphor of water to ponder the fabric of existence with his powerful second release. Delicately crafted and sculpted soundscapes of sublime keyboard textures combine with the ambient electric guitars of Jeff Pearce, David Helpling, and Howard Givens, which along with occasional percussion create moments of subtlety and power that suggest the very process of life from beginning to end, like the flow of water from the spring to the sea. This is a profound listening experience that is dramatic, introspective, and ultimately inescapable.

Amazon.com
On Flow, Jon Jenkins trades in the orchestral synthesizer bombast of his Continuum album for more austere and restrained ambiences. Floating somewhere between the quiet lyricism of Harold Budd and the expansive spacescapes of Steve Roach's Structures from Silence, Jenkins's melodies hover just at the edges, drawing you closer, asking you to listen more deeply. "Into a World of Wonder" and the minimally epic "The Power/Washed Away" pulse with vaguely Native American rhythms and the album's most potent melodies. "Night Drifting Through a Black Canyon" explores pure melodic ambience with Jenkins's own thready theme working through electric guitar textures from Jeff Pearce, while "Part of the Solution" is a sultry, detailed excursion of morphing sound design. Jenkins works with a self-limited, yet lush palette to create melodies that float on the wind and atmospheres that hang like Spanish moss. Flow remains the most underrated album from the Spotted Peccary label. --John Diliberto

Amazing Sounds, December 1998
Jon Jenkins uses synthesizers to create an extraordinary world. This is pure ambient music where keyboard textures, electric guitars, drums and percussion are the main traits...This is the second release by Jenkins but he is already showing a great maturity. His music is full of powerful soundscapes, ethereal melodies and hypnotic sensations. He definitely knows how to amaze the listener.

Customer Reviews

it reall flows.
This CD has been on my wish list for more than a year. I finally decided to buy it. Glad I did. Within the first 2 tracks, I found myself uttering 'this is beautiful'. The 'Flow' really flows. All tracks feel as one masterpiece. The sounds are dark yet warm and engaging, not as what you'd usually get with dark tracks that are detached and cold. The low vibrations are a joy to my ears. This is rather unique with its own style. I would definitely recommend having it in your ambient collection.

Bridges genres
The perfect blend between the best of Robert Rich's tribal works and the new age classics of Patrick O'Hearn. Flow is a little too ambient to be called New Age, and a little too New Age to be pure ambient. Wisps of melody waft over light percussion, and create an atmosphere conducive to meditation, sleep, or study. If you are looking to get into ambient music, this is the type of work that can ease you into the genre. Highly reccommended.

This is a great CD.
I think this is a great CD, right up there with many of Steve Roach's soundworlds. It is very well done and stands up to many repeat playings while maintaining its excitment. The Cd is very trance producing and interesting.