Karma

Mars Lasar

Paras Recording

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Karma is more of an adventure than a simple album. It has a strongly layered and textured sound that brings together an amazing array of instruments, samples and natural sounds. It is very filmic in quality, evoking images of far off lands, mystic rites, simple villages and natural environments. It is quite an intense experience and the way in which the multiple layers have been textured creates an unusual environment of sound. At times you do not even realize what you are hearing until you stop and consider – Wow ! That was a lion or a whale. This precise use of sound helps create a very unusual experience as we are not consciously aware of what is being heard (unless we are paying very close attention) and hence the effect is a clear invocation of a given environment or experience. Lasar clearly places a greater emphasis on atmosphere and mood rather than elaborate instrumentation and hence Karma is a very unusual album. The experience is dreamlike, it is a audio feast, a journey, moving from one set of images to another, from locale to locale, experiencing each in texture, scene and sense.