By: Robert Silverstein
player on the Manhattan rock and performance art scene since the '70s, acoustic guitarist and keyboardist David Belmont recently released his new album. Featuring an array of fine side players, including master percussionist Josh Neretin, "Wind Water Excursions" skillfully merges lushly textured New Age and folk music into one highly appealing instrumental music package. As ambient background music or highly meditative foreground listening, the nine track CD works on a number of levels. Like the title suggests, the album maintains a flow of creative musical ideas carrying the listener to a contented final destination. Divided into two parts, the four part "Awakening Suite In Open D" and "Elliptical Excursions", the album also spotlights a special instrumental cover of the Rolling Stones classic "Moonlight Mile". Combined here with "Beyond The Frozen Sky", the track is a fitting tribute to the late, great Michael Hedges. Recorded in NYC, "Wind Water Excursions" is one of the finest ambient instrumental albums of the recent past and is strongly recommended to fans of reflective New Age music.
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