Stephan Micus continues his spiritual musical pilgrimage, creating starry night atmospheres while playing a variety of lesser known instruments, combined with ethereal voices. The twelve songs here have Micus creating dreamy environments of wonderment on exotic things like the tongue drum, chikula, nohkan, charangos, suling, Tibetan cymbals and the 12-string guitar.
11 voices meld over the stringed sinding and flute-like chikulo to create a liturgical “Black Mother” with 14 go in choir and with a male solo and steel pan-ish tongue drums and chikulo on the conversant of “Sun Dance” and the Byzantine “The Longing of the Migrant Birds”. “Walking in Snow” has harplike guitar meditations, as does the delicate “Walking In Sand”, while rain drops from the kalimba add to the Sub-Saharan “Baobab Dance”. Mystical reflections from the Uyghur violin of sattar is staggering on the spartan “A New Light” with soft mandolin strums from the dharangos take you to Peru on “Companions”. Sounds for camping at night.