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Album Review

If you are not familiar with the aesthetics of ambient-space music, this album may seem incomprehensible to you - or put you to sleep. But if you are an ambient fan, as I am, it is a wonder. It is a luminous journey through musical inner space, led by one of the brightest stars in the Steve Roach galaxy, Peoria-Illinois-based “Vir Unis." His album Body Electric , done in collaboration with Roach, was a frenetic and wildly exciting experience full ...

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Album Review

Vir Unis: Aeonian Glow

Read "Aeonian Glow" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 2000

In the ancient esoteric philosophy of Gnosticism, the “Aeons" were both measures of time and spiritual beings. They emanated from the transcendent divine world and made their way down to our own world, where they could be either terrifying lords of darkness and oppression, or redeeming beings of light. “Vir Unis," in a brilliant stroke of creativity, unites the Gnostic myths with the images and sound-impressions from quantum physics (as seen in his track titles) to give us AEONIAN GLOW ...