Kyoto - Forest Trip (2009)

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Kyoto - Forest Trip (2009)

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This is some beautiful music. Lots of imaginative melodies and tasteful effects, ocassionally supported by a heavier beat or two. Even later there's this electric guitar. The mood is melancholic, but positive and not cheesy at all. It's much better than all these ambient albums out there that overdo the weird effects but don't offer any real melodical ideas. Maybe it won't blow your mind, but you'll listen to this album with pleasure.

Kyoto is a Russian musician and DJ working in ambient and psychill styles.
His choice of profession was largely determined by his music tastes. When a student he would listen to Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream later added by electronic projects. Already at the age of 18 Vitaly tries his hands at music playing the solo guitar in a rock group and combining acoustic and electronic music.
In 2004 Vitaly makes his own electronic project which still exists. Experimenting with various music instruments Kyoto is finding his own electronic sound somewhere between the psytrance, ambient and world music. Though influenced by various trends, his music retains its intrinsic and well thought out ideas focused on the infinite search of infinite spaces.

Kyoto's works are actually a calm and soothing landscape ambient predominantly shaped by massive tonal patterns and recurring music themes interspersed with multiply reflected high frequency and mid-range samples and a vocal. Occasionally the compositions have trance rhythm structures naturally interwoven with the main ambient substrate.