Ashera

Ashera (Anthony Asher Wright): Colour Glow

by John W. Patterson
February 1, 2001

Colour Glow represents one the first releases I have heard in a long time that completely captures the spirit of Eno. This is music, keys, feelings, lilting treatments, and hazy moods that carry the Eno stamp of great melodic ambience. If EEReviews or AllAboutJazz.com's Ambient Space were to offer the “ENO AWARD" for 2001, Colour Glow would walk away with it, contenders watching it pass by.This is just superb melodic ambience and no more needs saying other than ...

Ashera: Ambient Selections

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2001

This 2-CD album, produced in Australia by Anthony Asher Wright and a couple of guest performers, is well within the “traditional” spirit of Brian Eno’s original concept of ambient music. It is designed not to intrude, but to exist in the aural background of the listener’s consciousness, and enhance calm or meditative moods. The album cover says “Play at lower level; do not operate machinery or drive vehicles.” This sums it up pretty well. “Ashera’s” sounds feature, in different tracks, ...

Ashera: Cobalt 144

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2001

“Ashera” is an Australian artist whose ambient productions are very much in the “classic” spirit of Brian Eno. You will hear the by-now-familiar sounds of Ambient in Cobalt 144 : rhythm-less floating synthesizer or electric guitar tones, sighing and whispering wordless female voices, tinkling or rattling percussion accents, heavily filtered electric piano notes, bells, and environmental sounds. All the tracks are soft in volume, designed to be a kind of “audible incense” to perfume the environment.

Even though the style ...