Review Summary: Wanna feel all warm and fuzzy inside? Virginia Astley can help you with that!
Imagine taking a romantic road trip with your significant other on a nice weekend in the summer. Windows down, sunglasses on, music blasting and not a care in the world. You arrive to a bed and breakfast located on a gorgeous countryside and think to yourself "this is the life". Now lets imagine the musical equivalent of that exact feeling and you will have Virginia Atley's 1983 masterpiece
From Gardens Where We Feel Secure.
This album consists of an unbelievably serene blend of piano driven ambient and field recordings of nature. Birds chirping, water flowing, children playing and things of the same sort. All the while Virginia is serenading you with her hypnotic piano playing while all of this background noise is happening. There's some fantastic flute playing as well, giving the album a folk tinged sound that adds to the heavily natural sound already established. It may sound like a lot going on at once and it is, but man does it make for one perfect album.
From Gardens Where We Feel Secure will have you lost in it's beauty to the point where you won't even realize how quickly it goes by until it stops. There's such a calming vibe about it that its easy to find yourself floating away like you're on a drifting cloud. It's so perfectly produced in the way that it sounds so connected to nature and all of the creatures in it. The piano and flute give a "human" touch to the earthly soundscapes making for an experience so breathtaking that you'll want to hear it again and again. Virginia Astley is clearly pure soul and
From Gardens Where We Feel Secure puts that purity into the musical form
