Listen & tracks

3 of 3 tracks have a preview · 3 works · 75:12

1 Flutes and wind chimes John Sangster 26:13
2 Flutes and wind chimes (slow) John Sangster 25:17
3 Windchimes John Sangster 23:42

Percussion colours from wind-chimes, vibraphone and marimba give the music a dreamlike quality that is both relaxing and transportive. Sangster’s spare writing draws the listener inward, toward a meditative, introspective space.

For longtime admirers of Sangster and newcomers alike, Meditation sits naturally with ambient, new-age and world listening. Its unhurried soundscape remains a distinctive entry in experimental and atmospheric music: simple sounds for the inner ear.

Reviews

Sangster has composed themes for flutes by Mal Cunningham, who improvises on overdubbed tracks, against the chimes, vibes and marimbas of Sangster and Bloxom. Haunting and ethereal, the sounds encourage a trance-like state, borne out by Cunningham's credentials as a teacher of Yoga and meditation.

— Mike Daly, The Age, Melbourne

Artists

John Sangster

wind-chimes, vibraphone, marimba

John Sangster (1928–1995) was an Australian jazz composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist whose work stretched from traditional jazz and film scores to large-scale suites of uncommon range, humour and colour.