Label: Absolute Ambient
Released: 2007

01. Orbital Overture
02. Sheshamani Shuffle
03. Rising Slowly
04. Zumaware
05. Sky Circles
06. Always
07. When You Are Loved
08. A Winter's Walk
09. April
10. Always A Way
11. A Moment Of Grace
12. Always A Way Back Up

Pan Electric is the music's idea based in Brighton, UK. The leading character of the group is Matthew Coldrick and in his label - Absolute Ambient - was released this first CD by Pan Electric. The album titled "Conscious Pilot" is an enterprise in which participated also f.e. Pete Lewinson (member of Simply Red), Dan Burke, BJ Cole, Charlie Roscoe (from phenomenal Jairamji project), and even Matthew Hillier (well... ambient God).

This album can be in short described as a fusion of soft and light chillout sounds with vocals and live instruments (different kinds of guitar, piano, organ, trumpet, flute). So it isn't either psychedelic or deep? No. The most intriguing thing is this fact, that the album isn't psychedelic and isn't deep, but repeatedly drag into its world. And is doing this because of warm and lightness what is taken from the thing, that joy of life is a lover of "Conscious Pilot". There aren't here many places for sadness; while elements of nostalgia are contained here - though in its depths we can find joy. Sometimes this a bit jazzy Pan Electric's music is calm, ambient, melancholic ("A Winter's Walk"), sometimes is jaunty and captivating our thoughts ("Always A Way Back Up"), other time can be boldly described as film music ("April"). How are presented vocals on this background? Well, the vocals are mainly male, often on several voices, and they are fitted so great to the sounds, that they can be also treated like "sounds", so the whole creates unusually cohesive mosaic. The CD, contained twelve tracks, is also constructed in interesting way. Tracks number six and ten are a half-minute interludes between "appropriate" compositions. We hear a vocal there which is contained in the final track number twelve and which vocal on that mentioned two tracks is lightly modified and only oneself. This lead to such an effect that for "Always A Way Back Up" we are waiting like for the apogee. It's a very engaging building, I must say.

The album admittedly could be longer, it lasts only 52 minutes, but despite everything from start to the end tickle exactly the same with its optimistic nature. On the cover we see outline of birds against a background of the blue of the sky - I think it's a perfect reflection of the CD: directed for this kind of positive thoughts, on a pure relaxation.