Track Listing

1. Autumn Continent 1
2. Submerged
3. Hidden Wastelands
4. The Tides Of Time
5. Expanding Area
6. Passageway
7. Early Life Remainings
8. This Dominion
9. Atrium
10. Autumn Continent 2

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23141 in Music
• Released on: 2006-08-08
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
No sophomore jinx here. One year after the release of Secret Observatory, his sterling U.S. debut, Swedish studio wiz Stefan Jonsson (a.k.a. Between Interval) pulls back the curtain on another absorbing museum piece for the ear, Autumn Continent. It is a work of mystery, shadowy moonscapes, and imagination-stretching audio vistas that spans 73 minutes over 10 seamless movements--a recording that could conceivably serve as the soundtrack for a future Terminator 6, only without a pall of danger or anxiety clinging to the music. Jonsson's unhurried electronic textures evoke slowly changing images, often suggesting stark landscapes that could either be areas of emerging beauty or lifeless plains where the dust from an intergalactic apocalypse has begun to settle. He expands his palette of sounds on Autumn, introducing randomly struck bowls as an otherworldly form of percussion ("Submerged"), threading a Tangerine Dream-like electro-pulse into "The Tides of Time," even creating a rhythmic cadence that transports listeners above a vast, unknown sea ("Early Life Remainings"). It all contributes to an engrossing listening experience, making it easy to overlook the few occasions where Jonsson uses repetition to lend a hint of "musicality" to his sonic abstractions, briefly diminishing the distinctiveness of his sound. The overarching splendor of Jonsson's concepts is unmistakable and wholly involving, making him a space-music artist worthy of close attention. --Terry Wood

Album Description
"This album hits it right on the nail." -EXPOSE

A timeless new release from an outstanding, fresh Swedish talent, Autumn Continent is a superbly crafted blend of ambient and electronic downtempo environments. Provocative but not intimidating, subterranean explorations are balanced with a sense of light from an otherworldly perspective. Between Interval has created an organic atmosphere that is accessible and thoughtful without the clichés of modern electronic music. Previous release, Secret Observatory, hailed as a top pick ambient release and selected by Amazon.com's New Age Editor as the Best of 2005.

Customer Reviews

Pure quality
I had bought the previous disc, Secret Observatory a few months ago and thought I'd give this one a go, seeing as I approved of the previous. It turns out I like this one even better. Eerie, flowing, dreamy, oddly quirky yet serene. This really is a must for any drifting ambient collector's stack of faves. I love it. It moves, it bubbles, it dances and sails effortlessly without being contrived or laboured. It is, of course, so smooth that is sort of defies description, being as it is, meditative and atmospheric in nature. Look, just put yer money down and buy it. It really is fantastic. How do you know that your taste is similar to mine? Well, you'll have to risk it. This is a highly hypnotic disc, assembled by a master who apparently knows exactly how to shape a soundscape. It's misty, autumnal and comes out at dawn and dusk to beguile you with beauty.

At last - a european voice in the void
+1 for distinctive ambient sound (so different from Lustmord / Roach &c.)
+1 for the best European space ambient I have heard since...well, ever!
+1 for unpretentiousness - makes music to chill to
+1 deliberately NOT a follow on of Secret Observatory - highly original

-1 for too much analogue noodling on track #5 - TD did this better in 1973

Bottom line: Compelling deep space ambient - looking forward to what's next!

Isolated Ambience
Sublime, relaxing layers of sound sweep over you like the last warm breezes at the end of summer, rustling a few leaves. Spacious worlds warm into a delicate isolated ambience. This is an album to listen to when you are spending the night in a contemplative mood. Within the approaching silence there is a crisp hint of ice in the air.

At times "Hidden Wastelands" seems to almost disappear and then it emerges in a silky tribal infusion that leads to a sensuous warm soothing trance trajectory.

"The Tides of Time" draws you deeply into this album, saturating your consciousness with a deep sigh of peace. "Passageway" shimmers with long forgotten dreams and then awakens into new discoveries with a dark ambient wave and hints of falling stars.

The subtle pulsing energies in "Early Life Remainings" has a delicate hint of passion that breaks free into rhythmically sensual mood. The next three tracks follow this lead but mellow into warm rapturous infusions of intoxicating dreams. "Atrium" is a moody haze while "Autumn Continent 2" seems to embody a wistful longing. The mood is one of being completely alone and completely connected, as if your soul is wandering far away and has found peace.

"Between Interval" is the type of music you listen to deep into the night or while sinking into warm water or as you fall into dreams. This is relaxing music that still holds within its power an exciting revelatory element, the type that speaks softly of artistic elegance all while leaving you in a state of awe at the musical mastery.

~The Rebecca Review