Label: Absolute Ambient
Released: 2001

01. Crown Violet Selflessness
02. Brown Purple Wisdom
03. Throat Blue Unity
04. Heart Green Contentment
05. Solar Plexus Yellow Radiance
06. Naval Orange Purity
07. Base Red Patience

"Music For A Busy Head", released with subtitle: "Absolute Ambient.com Volume 1", is a musical child of Matthew Coldrick. Interested in the goa scene from its best years, decade ago, remember for sure this person because he was a part of Green Nuns Of The Revolution project. This group haven't exist so long. After its break-up and some years later Matt have decided to build his own label - Absolute Ambient, where in a debut this CD was released (in digipack though a little larger than a usual digipack). A short note contained inside the digipack inform that "the tracks are composed in keys that resonate with each of the seven chakras in turn, all below the tempo of the human heart at rest". Sounds intriguing.

It's linked with the ambient as a genre that is difficult to characterize each of the compositions in more sentences than usual it could be done, so I will try to draw its general contents. The first track is aquatic one with simple and happy melody. The second track, painted with pads and swooshes, is underwater, deep. In the third track all the time we have a solid axis in a form of reassuring melody assembled from four notes, sometimes we have a new stain to this mentioned sound - pad, harp, light chorus, additional melody. The atmosphere here is subaqueous. The fourth track is a continuation of this world exploration. Main motive is a relaxing pool of a few notes with a low flute on a foreground. The fifth track contain a quite fast, autumn melody that is blended with not so dark pads. The sixth and the seventh track are raised on pads and their image reflect maiden journeys in depths. Only in the last phase of the last track arrive shyly to us an acid loop - the only one on the whole CD.

The atmosphere - associated with a blissful diving - is builded from a very minimal sounds in addition of echo, reverb, delay effect - only electronic sounds we have here. There isn't any percussion here, we have a pure, 50-minutes, ambient. We mainly hear one motive to which another are reaching in and reaching out. So the bad point of this album was born - monotony. The melodies - that are very important and essence of the track one, three, four and five - are fairly pleasant, though - after a few listenings to the CD - they begin to irritate because of its explicitness (it's the truth if we listen to this ambient as the music of course), and when we add simple or very simple arrangements (what is the objective fact) then we have from "Music For A Busy Head" the album that is only aspirating to being great. But for the headphones at the night: beautifully relaxing it is.