Wonderful Beyond

For a year Leonardo aka Astral Son worked on Wonderful Beyond, letting the album breathe, grow and grow and you can hear this in every minute of the record. It is his fourth album, the first step after his trilogy of Gurumaya, Silver Moon and Mind's Eye and at the same time the album on which his voice takes on a more important role than ever before.

Eleven tracks flow seamlessly into one another, creating a dreamlike state that the listener willingly falls into. She opens tenderly and invitingly before Matrix Of Creation conjures up early Gong and Steve Hillage. Time And Space touches upon the quiet beauty of Pink Floyd's More era with a simple acoustic guitar theme, Your Mind is entertaining and synth-infused and The Universe lays a strangely alienated voice over a new, driving bass groove. With Moving Slowly, Cheap Magic Spells and the concluding Morning Dew the album takes on increasingly calmer, almost contemplative features.

Wonderful Beyond is a colorful, peaceful homage to the psychedelic music of the late 60s and early 70s and the most convincing proof that Astral Son has by now developed a signature style all his own.

Astral Son is
Leonardo (Leonardo Soundweaver) – electric space guitar, synthesizer, vintage organs, bass guitar, voice