Label: Virtual
Released: 2005

01. Nomad
02. Green Sun Prismatic Sky
03. Iqqoa
04. Blue Helix
05. Sun In Venus
06. Utopian Moon Garden
07. Infinity Beam Home

Virtual is a relatively new label in ambient scene, because it was found in 2005. Its creator and owner is Matt Hillier. The only one previous solo album of this British is released in 2002 "Orchid" album as Ishq, an ambient narcotic. Impressive sound of his relaxing music Matt decided to bring into own label, which first CD was this Ishvara's album - "Magik Square Of The Sun", released in limited edition of 500 copies.

Beginning track of the CD is "Nomad" - over 21-minutes journey, one of seven that emotions are difficult to present so I will focus on technical aspect. Before the third minute a light, steady and slow beat is entering, which is a soft background for a chorus and a loop of trance melody that is wandering among the sounds. With the next minutes we go in depths - the track is transforming and going into its new phases, but its axis is still kept, what is incredible. After the twelfth minute we are entering on even more unforeseeable and dark surface of the composition, then the track is erasing the percussion from oneself and we won't experience it again till the end of the CD. The sounds step by step begin to disappear and in this state we are heading to the finish of the first track. Next we have "Green Sun Prismatic Sky" which is a nearly 18-minutes journey that is being born from the sounds of the nature: from the sounds, that in a perfect way imitate speech of the birds, they became birds' abstract ego. We enter from now a land of minimal ambient where every sound have its own language, so we can listen to this kind of ambient million times and still discovering something new in it. The sounds are then still metamorphosing, it's very difficult to express them. Builded then in the middle phase scenery on pads and chorals is also an indescribable scene. It's changing fast and smoothly as evolution of nothing else in the world.

The third composition is "Iqqoa". With every next moment we are witness of bigger experiments, we don't know what will happen - besides that one thing, that we know that it will be pleasent. Lovely landscape is given to us then: calm view of the sea from the beach during cold, summer or autumn weather - and it was done from the sounds in so unbelievable way, that one more time I don't have any word to describe it. A delightful melody that assist in this time is another beauty virtue of this composition and also, for me personally, it's one of the best ambient melodies that fulfil ambient nature I've ever heard. In the fourth track we can find "Blue Helix". I guessed that we won't hear another so lovely melody as in "Iqqoa", but I was wrong. This time a melody have emotionally dimension of abstract. I thinked some long time, how can I describe it? I don't know, any metaphor won't suit, though it's a real melody from flesh and blood, not my own invention. The track is practically assembled only from this melody, but it's continually modifying, so its long presence don't hinder anything. The most important property of this melody is that it's at the same time builded on different plains, it's on high notes, it's also like a bass, important is also that is slowing down, get longer, to give a place for birds' singing and new composition...

Track number five - "Sun In Venus" - lead us to a majestic architecture builded on pads and abstract patches, so it have similiar formula as "Green Sun Prismatic Sky". The track is simultaneously dark and optymistic. In its last phase is like a lullaby, we finish soothing and from that strange state we continue the travel. In "Utopian Moon Garden" we can once again relish with abstract ambient. We don't have a clear core here, there are many sounds typical for Hillier that flying not linear and not incessantly around each other. So kind of are these sounds? There are some names that could precisely characterize them: crystalline, pure, fluid. But maybe "crystalline" fully describe its nature. For the end, in "Infinity Beam Home", we are receiving the track very calm even in a context of previous compositions; this one say goodbye to us, inoffensive, maybe even futuristic it is. This evidently ends a process at some point. Central motive of the composition is a calm melody, though in its background quite a lot happens. It's like watching some kind of work, history in slow motion...

"Magik Square Of The Sun" is an evocative journey on vast expanse of time and space, which subtle abstraction allow me at times to objectively describing its content. Is this a symbiosis of ambient and the nature, is this an abstraction from the start to the end? The answer you'll find in you... The best Hillier's album, the best ambient album and one of the best in general albums I've heard in my life.