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	CADENCED HAVEN - Peregrination (cd)


	CALLISTO - Nyx (cd)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - Behind the Shadows (cd-r)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - Eigenspaces (cd-r)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - In this Moment, In the Place (cd-r)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - Light Echoes (cd)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - Nights of Brightness (cd-r)


	CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS - Hydrophonic Garden (cd)


	CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS - Interloper (cd)


	CARBONEIDS - Synthsyg (cd)


	MARTIN CARRADUS - Analog (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY & BRANNAN LANE - Climatic Infusion (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY & BRANNAN LANE - Dreamswirl (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY & GERARD GEARY - Mount Meru (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Natural Wonder (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Oceanic Space (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Skyhearts (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Starlight Volume 1 (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Starlight Volume 2 (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Starlight Volume 3 (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Suntales (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - The Inexplicable (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY & SYLKEN - The Endless Vista (cd-r)


	CHARLIE CASE & JONN SERRIE - Out of the Blue (dvd)


	DOLORES CASTRO - Fifth Dimension (cd)


	CATALIN - First Breath (cd)


	CELL - Hanging Masses (cd)


	CENTROZOON - Lovefield (cd)


	PETER CHALLONER - Abstract Ambient Form (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Beneath the Ice Flow (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Deconstructing Silence (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Interpolation (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Lunar Tide (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Music for Cloud Watching (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Music in Ambient Motion (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Music in Suspended Animation (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - The Other Side of Time (cd-r)


	CHAR-EL - Heaven and Earth (cd)


	CHAR-EL - Resurrection (cd)


	CHAR-EL - Worlds without End (cd)


	CLAUDE CHEMIN - Esthésies (cd)


	JOHN CHRISTIAN - Susbarbatus (cd-r)


	CIRCULAR - Sustans (cd)


	THE CIRCULAR RUINS - Empathy Test (cd)


	CIRCULUM MUSICUM - Phases (cd-r)


	TIM CLARK - Tales of the Sun People (cd)


	VINCENT CLARKE & MARTYN WARE - Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle (cd)


	MATT COLDRICK - Music for a Busy Head (cd)


	COLLAPSAR - Beyond the Event Horizon (cd)


	COLOURFORM - Visions of Surya (cd)


	COMPUTERCHEMIST - Aqual Measure (cd-r)


	CONTINUUM - Volume 1 (cd)


	CON_SENSE - Code Sent (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO & BRUNO SANFILIPPO - Indalo (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Ars Lucis (cd)


	MAX CORBACHO - BreathStream (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Far Beyond The Immobile Point (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Moontribe (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Nocturnal Emanations (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - The Resonant Memory of Earth (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Vestiges (cd)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Astral Journey (cd-r)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Electric Trick (cd)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Hypernova (cd-r)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Outerspace Gems (cd)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Space Gems (cd-r)


	BEN COX - On Water (cd)


	ROBERT HAIG COXON - The Silent Path (cd)


	JAMIE CRAIG - Illumination (cd)


	CREATE - In the Blink of an Eye (cd)


	CREATE - Lost on an Island of Adventure (cd)


	CREATE - Space Time Continuum (cd)


	CHARLES CREVIER , FRANCOIS KIRALY AND JEAN-FRANCOI - Music from the Sky (cd)


	CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE - Ausländer (cd)


	CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE - Moonscapes -How stones become enlighted- (cd)


	CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE & MATT BORGHI - The Intercepted Transmissions (cd)


	CYCLOTIMIA - Wasteland (cd)


	CYMPHONIC - Strataradialis (cd)


	CYSCAPE - Deep Sea Explorer (cd-r)

CADENCED HAVEN
Peregrination
CD, Groove Unlimited, 2010

Cadenced Haven is a project by Bangladesh-based female artist Laila Quraishi, who got some great help from accomplished Dutch synthesist Gert Emmens on her debut-release "Peregrination".

The CH-project itself is a mind soothing, New Age based art form with the goal to reach the listener’s inner soul, hidden mind and consciences through the melody. In the end it wants to leave a mark of new possibilities and discover the new being within themselves.

Don’t expect this to be a quiet album though, as the first three tracks feature the great electronic contributions of Mr Emmens, who provided some great and catchy sequencer patterns and lush synth pads to get things into motion while creating comfortable moods.
Laila’s solo tracks sound more classical, mystifying, almost loungy and sometimes even a bit psychedelic to my ears. The way she occasionally uses her voice is also something one must like.
Highlights on the cd are the album opener "Devoted Loss" and the groovy sonics of "Catalysis".

In the end, and although the music doesn't meet my musical preference, it’s the fascinating combination of Laila’s gently atmospheres and rhythms with Gert’s great vintage sounds and spicy sequencer patterns that lift "Peregrination" above the average electronic music album.

Website: www.myspace.com/cadencedhaven