Is it weird that Inner Travels hasn’t recorded for Inner Islands yet? I
mean, these two are perfect for each
other. Look at those names, for goodness’ sake! S. Targo, the Inner Travels
guru, is as good an ambassador as any for the current crop of New Age
visionaries, and you all know Sean Conrad at Inner Islands because of this excellent interview.
They’re peas in a pod, and you can begin sentences with, “Inners Travels and
Islands…” – look at the linguistic possibilities! Look also at the possibility
of confusion – I’m not gonna lie, I’ve already caught myself mixing up the two
names in this very paragraph. Fortunately,
because of my superior editing skills, I’ve got everything as it should be.
So let’s talk turkey, and by “turkey” I mean vibrant vistas of glittering
synthesizers, where sparkling glissandos mimic through sound the “Radiant
Sunrise” or ripple like refracted light through liquid “Luminescence.” That’s
the Inner Travels way, and indeed Clear
Seeing is Targo’s attempt to base his compositions on actual images.
Obviously, he succeeds, as these meditative passages all “clearly” replicate
their titular subjects. You can focus on any of them and be immediately
transported through your mind to their magical locales. Targo accomplishes his
loving renditions of both actual and theoretical visions, both in the tangible
world and through the “mind’s eye.” These visions are useful for personal
reflection, hence the “inner” everyone is talking about with the travels and
the islands and the whatnot. You can get lost in this stuff if you’re not
careful. And that’s OK – you’re only going to find inner peace anyway. Hey,
another “inner”!
--Ryan Masteller
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