Label: Digital Samsara
Released: 2006

01. 7AM
02. Ohlon
03. Beyond Concept
04. Uda
05. Memories
06. Floating
07. Barguzin
08. Blue Beryll

Digital Samsara's members are Ben Canar, Shahar Kaufman and Dirk Kunesh. "Blue Beryll" is their first CD, released in 2006 in their own label (named Digital Samsara), which this is debut piece as well.

Musical paths contained here is very easy to separate into two genres: percussions and apercussions. The first genre is a very interesting, lazy chillout arrangements composited from many live instruments (there is a pleasure to hear f.e. Jew's harp, guitar, kalimba, trumpet, piano) with addition of synth lines and percussion of course. The second is, not so interesting in this context, frugal ambient. I'll start from that second section. Ambient genre is generally boring. It is treaten as a tediously expectation for more brisk tracks, because in this style Digital Samsara is simply better. Especially "Olhon" and "Blue Beryll" are boring. If someone want to hear more interesting ambient then it's enough to go to the forest. While "Uda" and "Memories" (this is definitely the shortest track; it lasts just a minute and a half) are quite nice, but they are also marked by the sin of... bad album's construction. Just look at the tracklist and see what is the tracks order. I think that the four is boring due to the bad placing them in the CD. (But first of all, to be honest, they - I mean by that this apercussion style of Digital Samsara - shouldn't ever exist on this CD). And already the worst idea was to contain "Blue Beryll" composition in the end, because this track really within its seven minutes and a half presents all the time the same (beating in some kind of a small gongs), which - though they probably have to create kind of a mysticism - are going, unfortunately, to nowhere. Honestly, I don't have any idea, how these eight compositions should be ordered without feeling a boredom or an irritation in some moments.

But let's read now about more charismatic group. Belongs here: "7AM", "Beyond Concept", "Floating" and "Barguzin". The beginning of all is blissful; a half of them also end with calm emotions ("Beyond Concept", "Floating"), while a second half ("7AM", "Barguzin") have got arrangements that progressively expand its own and their last phazes are painted with liquid dynamics. The most important thing: their instrumental atmosphere and originality draw attention. Let's go for the details. The first track is builded in interesting way. End of "7AM" is a brilliant, psychedelic final which can only be expected from that kind of morning composition; stimulates a curiosity of Digital Samsara's music. "Beyond Concept" seems to be too pretentious in this context, its loftiness is exaggerated; this is for sure the worst track from this group - the only one exception from the rule presented by me. "Floating" sounds beautifully as if it was played just a few metres next to us. Eastern atmosphere - the atmosphere by which every sounds from this CD speek to us - is here very skilfully spiced with jazzy style. And "Barguzin" from ambient goes to a delicate, psychedelic final, which allow to flow away into the sky. Endear me personally a sound between 6:57 and 6:59 (this sound will be a few times more): when arrive short, but beautifully mysterious and mystic drop of notes (four notes in fact). By a twisting pad it's sounds especially magical.

This is unusually ambiguous album. Containing the kind of tracks from percussion group (minus "Beyond Concept" and perhaps plus the most beautiful ambient track from here, "Uda") could rate this albums as great. These musicians showed, that they are able to compose fascinating, own sounds. But the CD's construction causes that potential wasn't used properly. The album lasts 53 minutes, while captivating with its sophistication are just minutes 30.