One Thousand Years
An excellent companion toUaktiand Philip  Glass's wonderfulAguas de Amazonia,  U.K. trio Tuu'sOne Thousand Yearsis a densely textured ambient  homage to primitive magical woodlands, tribal peoples, and sacred  waters. The group features not just the expected synthesizer and  samples but flutes, panpipes, clay-pot drums, bowl gongs, and a chiming  array of percussion. Creating nearly an hour of luscious soundscape at  once both ancient and modern, Tuu seem to find influences ranging fromRavi Shankarto  Tuvan throat singing and pygmy song; taking cues too, from Tibetan  chant and ceremony and the inherent music of old-growth forests visited  by wind and rain. Beginning with the haunting dissonance of "Exile," an  interplay of sound and silence, drone and tinkling bell,One  Thousand Yearsplays as a mystic song cycle, quite likely to find  an audience  beyond listeners already won over to music classified as  New Age.--Paige La Grone