All India Radio - Afterworld (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

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All India Radio - Afterworld (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

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There is a mesmerising aura to All India Radio‘s absolutely magnificent album ‘Afterworld’ that spills forth a series of incredible beautiful moments that glitter and shine. This is an album that immediately send you into a blissful reverie with its quiet, ambient movements that are emotional and affecting. The album is a connecting whole – not one to be dipped into but rather one to immerse oneself into and travel to the interplanetary realms it creates in the imagination.

All India Radio is the work of Martin Kennedy who has an unerring ability to enhance and bejewel the works of others with his creations. His collaboration earlier this year on the album ‘Jupiter 13’ with The Church’s Steve Kilbey (see my review here) is already one of the releases of the year – and the guests he has on ‘Afterworld’ – including Gareth Koch (whose own collaboration with Steve Kilbey last year, Chryse Planitia, was one of the albums of last year) – indicate a willingness to draw in the best and make the best of them.

Kennedy does not hide his admiration for what some would see as dinosaurs of yesteryear – prog rock in the form of Yes or the psychedelic elements of Pink Floyd – and this bleeds into the psychedelic aspects of the instrumentations – delays and echoes shimmer and flow through the layers of the songs that play and extend for as long as they should.