Label: Absolute Ambient
Released: 2005

01. Terra Firma
02. The Band From Atlantis
03. Fire Dance
04. Where The Evening Meets The Sky
05. Air

"Elemental Journey" is the album of the two British: Matt Coldrick and Matt Hillier. Coldrick is a fugure known from the goa scene from 90s when he was involved in Green Nuns Of The Revolution. Then, at the beginning of XXI century, he created his own label named Absolute Ambient. In its first release we could listen to his ambient solo album "Music For A Busy Head". This time, in the label's second release, Matt join his talent with the talent of ambient God, Matt Hillier, who is responsible for projects like Ishq, Ishvara and Elve and who is known for extremely high quality of his specific music.

The album contain only five tracks, but the disc lasts nearly 70 minutes. Composition number one titled "Terra Firma" is oriental downtempo. Middle Eastern atmosphere, melodies on flute (by Heallenor Webb), light bass and exotic main melody are its characteristics. Track number two - "The Band From Atlantis" - is in the beginning intensely underwater ambient which is then manoeuvring in its next stages (after entering of guitar and percussion): is changing to swinging chillout and then returning to the ambient bosom. Next composition is "Fire Dance". The beginning also here is clearly underwater, the sounds are speaking at times even like in dolphins language (it's sounds lovely); the most beautiful component of this track is born in 2:47 - this is the melody in style of the most brilliant ambient melodies by The Orb, I could listen to it all the time, and when next a percussion and drone melody is entering the track then everything become more and more dynamic and psychedelic, and then after ambient break we once again return to those sounds though with fast, tribal drums. "Where The Evening Meets The Sky" is the fourth track. This time the underwater world is sunny and builded on long pads, in the main role - guitar, and the whole creates joy; this is the shortest track of the CD (it's lasts nearly seven minutes and a half). And "Air" is the last composition here - it's over 23-minutes very deep ambient journey. It's quite difficult to draw its transmission, though it's undoubtedly the best track of the album.

Except the last track, this isn't a total ambient but rather a chillout ambient. The biggest bad thing of the CD is its excessive explicitness: there isn't here depths which we could expect before hearing the album. Of course, it was my mine subjective expectation, but even taking this feeling I can say with a clear conscience that this is certainly the album worth to check out and by which we can spend many, many pleasant moments.