Darren Tate - Prayer For A God (Gracelands Episode 2) mp3 download

Tiainar

After firstly hearing Prayer For A God in 2004, it became somewhat an obsession of mine for months. As I was still in high school at the time, it was a truly lifting experience to come home each afternoon and flip on the song, while letting the sun’s radiant light from the other side of my room’s window touch everything around me. It left me with the feeling that there was much to experience and live for. Undoubtedly, it was the continuously ascending, ethereal aura of the choirs and the tribal, high-throttle drum works that gave it so much appeal. This is also amazing, because the melodic structure is almost all contained in the layers of nonlyrical vocals, while the synths only add a backing musical component. The dark bassline sitting beneath the singing adds a crucial element of drive that comes off as subtle, but serving well to ground the melody. Moreover, though, I always associated this song with an almost apocalyptic, might-as-well-jump feel. The lead in to the soaring breakdown and the final chord structure (accompanied by acid riffs and an ominous bassline) during the song’s 2-minute collapse/outro leaves you overwhelmed with emotion. When it comes to tech-trance with a proclivity for walking you through one of the most epic storylines an 8-minute piece of music will allow, you can do little wrong with Prayer For A God.Elevation isn’t as techy as Prayer For A God, so it is more focused on a continuous flowing melodic mainline, but it is similarly as enchanting. Drawn out pads add rich texture while there are several alternating melodies running throughout. Here, we have a delightful uplifter to compliment this celestial EP.

Oveley

Sounding very reminiscent of Liquid Child's; Diving Faces in certain places, this track has a very mystic sound to it. As usual of Darren's productions it all sounds very polished, is it me or does the build-up and latter sections sound a little bit goa/psy? :) Certainly not the best work he's produced but scores a high 4/5 in my books.