Dawn Treader, by Chronotope Project

Dawn Treader

by Chronotope Project

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tw9mini Beautiful space ambience with mystical feeling to it....gives me
Déjà vu, memories that transcend my current life....thanks for such music, make more. Favorite track: Omphalos.

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	1.	Dawn Treader 07:56
	2.	The Scent of Evening Flowers 07:06
	3.	Basho's Journey 09:24
	4.	Ocean of Subtle Flames 10:03
	5.	Omphalos 06:30
	6.	Canticle of the Stars 07:15
	7.	She Who Hears the Cries of the World 07:33

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Cinematic in scope and depth, the majestic Dawn Treader is Chronotope Project’s first full length release on the Spotted Peccary label. Jeffery Ericson Allen is the sole creative force behind the music, and he skillfully balances the compositions between mystical, ambient dreamscapes and organic, emotional melodic statements. The soundscapes – drawn from a variety of sources spanning ambient electronic, Western classical, and traditional world music – are textural, compelling, evocative, and meaningful.

Inspired by C.S. Lewis’ eponymous sailing ship from “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” the album’s wondrous musical narrative tells a mystical story that evokes the hero’s journey, suggesting a number of classic mythological and literary archetypes to the deep listener. The tracks are warm and inviting, masterfully orchestrated and choreographed into a musical collage of archetypal sonic chronotopes, each seeking the inner essence of an outward symbol.

The album begins with the title track, “Dawn Treader,” which enters at a distance, like a great mythological ship appearing out of the mist, bringing with it the rising sun, then turning again to sail off into the horizon. The mood turns dreamlike with “The Scent of Evening Flowers,” which offers a meditation on a line from the Japanese haiku poet Matsuo Basho. “Basho’s Journey” features the thirteen-stringed Japanese koto in a traditional hira-joshi tuning, and depicts the wandering poet’s long sojourns on the Five Roads of Edo. “Ocean of Subtle Flames” follows with a corresponding fractal nature in which micro and macrocosmic structures mirror and complement one another, suggesting the Mystic, whose universe is of one substance, at once unchanging and ever-evolving. Tibetan singing bowls are at the heart of “Omphalos,” a deep sonic meditation that radiates infinitely in all directions, while the effervescent electronics and choral phrasing of “Canticle for the Stars” offer a wordless hymn of hope to the heavens. “She Who Hears the Cries of the World” sets layers of Balinese gamelan into a bed of immersive ambient texture, closing the album on a captivating lyrical note.

Dawn Treader is an album that is firmly rooted in the visual “soundtrack” style of ambient-electronic music, featuring cinematic textures, strong melodies, and hypnotic rhythms that inspire the imagination of every listener.

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released August 7, 2015

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Chronotope Project Eugene, Oregon

Jeffrey Ericson Allen is an Oregonian composer, cellist and electronic music recording artist with an extensive and eclectic background in classical, new acoustic and theatrical music production. Chronotope Project represents his most recent expression as a creator of contemporary progressive ambient music. ... more

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Chronology

Sep 2023
Gnosis

Aug 2021
Lotus Rising

Nov 2018
Ovum

Aug 2017
Passages

May 2016
Dawn Treader

Aug 2015

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