The Mountain King

by Ten Walls - Runemark Records

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1.	Ten Walls - Northlands 01:55	buy track
2.	Ten Walls - How I Feel 04:05	buy track
3.	Ten Walls - Zelda 03:24	buy track
4.	Ten Walls - Catarina 04:23	buy track
5.	Ten Walls - 20Sec 00:41	buy track
6.	Ten Walls - Anor Londo 04:15	buy track
7.	Ten Walls - Seq (Album Version) 02:56	buy track
8.	Ten Walls - Maroca (Album Version) 05:13	buy track
9.	Ten Walls - Sanctuary (Album Version) 07:28	buy track
10.	Ten Walls - Salt (Album Version) 06:54	buy track
11.	Ten Walls - Luca 06:15	buy track
12.	Ten Walls - My Memories 01:20	buy track
13.	Ten Walls - Others 07:20	buy track
14.	Ten Walls - Prolog (Album Version) 06:49	buy track
15.	Ten Walls - Light 01:14	buy track
16.	Ten Walls - Go Speed Racer 03:52	buy track
17.	Ten Walls - Reincarnation 01:44	buy track
18.	Ten Walls - The King 03:43	buy track
19.	Ten Walls - Cat vs. Dog 02:52	buy track
20.	Ten Walls - March of the Trolls (2001 Version) 05:09	buy track
21.	Ten Walls - Regular Day 05:27	buy track
22.	Ten Walls - Papa 02:04	buy track
23.	Ten Walls - Windy Sky 01:21	buy track
24.	Ten Walls - Flower Duet 01:59	buy track
25.	Ten Walls - Fall (Album Version) 08:03	buy track
26.	Ten Walls - Holly Morning (Album Version) 04:09	buy track
27.	Ten Walls - Thriller (Album Version) 05:59	buy track
28.	Ten Walls - Birds 11:51	buy track
29.	Ten Walls - 2000 01:54	buy track
30.	Ten Walls - C 02:08	buy track

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"The Mountain King" is a long master craftsman's album with Music with capital "M" at its barycentre. It begins with the mild synthetic beats of "Northlands", chomping at the bit over a grand piano cascade, slowly spreading into "How I Feel" uplifting extended bass notes and a magnificent phrasing of delicate flutes and jazzy drums.
In "Zelda," the mood get darker and the sky becomes of steel while arcane choirs lurk behind elegant deceptive arpeggios. As time passes tamely, hi-tech experimental breaks and adulterated quirks bring us to a whirl of fast paced percussion and a steady kick drum rolling over smokey busy oriental roads. At its bull's eye, the album goes straight into the middle of an energetic dancefloor, with sophisticated peak-time club fillers soaked by punchy kicks, fragrant hi-hats and dramatic arpeggios, always captured in evocative atmospheres. On the the second disc, the journey retakes breath with a sumptuous harmonic transaction on "Others", before it becomes darker again into a nightfall of relentless bass notes and angry computer bleeps. A descent into a digital underworld that dissolves itself into the climax of an high-energy radiant progression into a celestial highway. "The King", Cat vs Dog" and the 2001 version of "March of the Trolls" maintain a strong electromotive power, keeping the feet on dance territories but winking to a dystopic far future.
The third chapter of this majestic work sublimates from the velvety mallets of "Flower Duet" through the fast-paced resonances of "Fall" and the hypnotic sequences of "Holy Morning". Riding the dusk, the ravey states of being of "Thriller" propel us to a softening and blurring descent to the end of these dreamlike deeds, under a steel sky covered by gloomy stardust. Ten Walls wisely depicts a sonic masterpiece blending with harmony genres and styles, assimilating complex orchestration into electronic dance music

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released October 13, 2023

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