Endless Immersion by Dosia McKay

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This review is too many weeks late and several hours short on sleep, but I need to tell you how amazing this album is.
First, my thanks to Dosia McKay, who kindly sent me another copy of her new album after the first one got lost in the mail.

Second, apologies to her for this being so embarrassingly late. Life has been hectic, and chaotic, and sad; and yet this album has been a rock in the storm.

There's a reason that pregnant women are taking this album into the delivery room with them. It's metaphysical on a level that most people can only try to attain. Endless Immersion is an experiment in electroacoustic music that bends the boundaries of time and space. It clocks in at 120 minutes of pulsating shimmer, with no discernable beginning or end.

McKay originally composed the music on this album for a quadrophonic environment, in conjunction with the visual artist Lynda Sondles in Asheville. The music was "contained" by a three dimensional installation, and was played on two different stereophonic loops at different lengths to create an endless listening experience that is constantly creating new combinations of sounds. Being an artist as well as a musician and a composer, McKay has a unique perspective that throbs in all of her music and her art. Somehow, being able to understand and create both visual and auditory art makes her music throb with the beat of the human experience.

I'm home sick today. 😕 But look what I just got in the mail! The new 2 disc album from @dosiamckay! I can't wait to start listening, review on the blog sometime soon! #Classicalmusic #newmusic

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On a personal level, I am the kind of human who appreciates arranged white noise, the kind that's able to drown out whatever my brain decides to shout at 3am on a Monday. Endless Immersion isn't relaxing, the way that whale music can be relaxing - it's a brand new experience in electroacoustic soundscapes.

If I said I could bend time and space, you'd think I was delusional. If I said I could manipulate emotions, you'd call me a narcissist. But if I said that I could show you something that could change the way you meditate, you might be intrigued. I'm showing you Endless Immersion. Even for those who might not be religious meditators, this album can seriously change your perception of time, space, and humanity. There are no soaring melodies or gut-wrenching themes, and yet it manages to find that piece of you, somewhere inside your brain, that just wants to relax and absorb stimuli. At 120 minutes, you can't afford not to try it - Whats 2 hours? Listen while you work, listen while you commute, listen in a dark room over some really expensive speakers, just listen.

Buy this album!