Studio Kosmische – Electronic Meditation for Inner Space Travel

Dom Keen and Jonathan Parke’s Studio Kosmische project has always felt like an invitation into another dimension. Across each release they’ve built self-contained worlds from oscillations and echo, every one a journey guided more by instinct than structure. They’re back again with Electronic Meditation for Inner Space Travel and once again, another portal opens. This time the vision stretches out over an endless desert. An imagined realm where time folds in on itself and magick hums quietly beneath the sand. Joined, this time, by Russian saxophonist Ivan Bursov, the boys lead us through seven movements that unfold like a lost film from another reality. So, dear reader, lie back, relax and let me tell you a story.

It begins when ‘The Sorcerers Gather’. The first tones arrive like flickering torchlight, shadows forming on the dune walls. The air feels heavy with anticipation as the figures step into a circle. Modular hums rise from the earth, and somewhere deep in the mix percussive tribal drums curl like smoke. The piece doesn’t rush. It sets the ritual in motion. By the time the rhythm begins to pulse, you’re already inside it and watching the stars above the desert start to shift into strange constellations.

Without pause our sorcerers reveal their intent. They are ‘In Search of Magick’. Slowly slipping into focus, shimmering like heat haze. The tempo picks up slightly, though it’s less rhythm and more movement, like a sense of drifting across sand, guided by unseen forces. The synth tones glow phosphorescent, guitar licks glowing like distant campfires on the horizon. You start to feel that the magick they seek isn’t something to be found, but remembered, an ancient knowledge buried beneath layers of time. The music swells with that quiet revelation, expanding until the horizon feels infinite.

All around us are ‘Golden Dunes’, the album’s great mirage. The textures shift into something less lucid, almost hallucinatory. Layers of analogue warmth wrap around us, no bassline to anchor us, no hypnotic heartbeat. It’s easy to lose your bearings here. We’re in a brief moment where the desert no longer feels vast or lonely, but alive, pulsing with energy beneath the surface.

‘Esoteric Modulation’ ushers in a new phase. Here the tone deepens, the frequencies oscillate and twist, and we feel the ceremony’s power intensify. Synths flutter like sparks from a ritual fire while the guitar carves strange hieroglyphs in the air. Each modulation feels deliberate, yet free enough to seem discovered rather than composed. The music becomes language, the universal code that ties the cosmic to the human. Something larger, above us is trying to speak.

It’s ‘The Great Author of the Universe. Their arrival feels like the moment of communion. The sorcerers have reached their deity. The tones stretch outward, celestial and reverent. It’s slow, patient, and deeply immersive. The author demands stillness. There’s something spiritual here, though it never declares itself. The interplay between instruments feels devotional, like a dialogue between worshipper and divine being. The notes hang in the air like questions, answered only by echo.

The descent (or perhaps the return) arrives ‘As Above, So Below’. The phrase itself feels like a mantra, and the music follows suit. What once felt vast now folds inward. The desert fades into patterns of light and reflection, the outer universe mirrored in the inner mind. There’s a slow heartbeat that guides the listener back through layers of consciousness. The tones drift, then tighten, as though the veil between worlds is closing gently behind you.

And finally, with ‘Eternal Dream Musick’ the journey comes to rest. The colours soften. A final shimmer fades into silence. You can almost see the dawn creeping over the dunes, the ritual complete, the sorcerers gone. What remains is the sacred residue of something ancient and half-remembered. Suspended somewhere between waking and sleep, in that rare space where you feel completely calm yet somehow changed.

Like all Studio Kosmische records, Electronic Meditation for Inner Space Travel is less a collection of tracks than a single, unbroken experience. It flows with purpose, every note a step in a silent procession toward understanding. There’s no urgency, no climax, just a graceful surrender to the unknown. When it ends, the world feels quieter, your thoughts slower, the air lighter. This one’s a record to play deep into the night, when the sky outside your window looks almost purple and the world feels bigger than you remember. Drop the needle, close your eyes, and let the music lead you through the dunes. Somewhere out there, the sorcerers are still gathering, still searching, still dreaming.

Electronic Meditation for Inner Space Travel will be released on limited-edition vinyl via Dreamlord Recordings in March 2026.

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