Sacred Seeds – Emerald Landscape Review

What does Sacred Seeds sound like?

Ethereal new age ambience which brings in organic instruments from various cultures too.

The review of ‘Emerald Landscape’ by Sacred Seeds

Deep in the ambient chill-out realms of mystical and ethereal soundscapes you’ll find ‘Emerald Landscapes’. A 2022 album from electronic artist Sacred Seeds, I stumbled across it by accident earlier this week when I was incredibly unwell with kidney stones. I was looking for calming and relaxing music to help calm me down as the pain was debilitating and this album was the one that soothed me most.

The album contains six long and expansive panoramic tracks. It’s a mixture of synths, pianos, drones, washes, effects and ethereal worldly sounds and Sacred Seeds’ sonic journey embodies a vivid and vibrant colour like his Indian heritage. What stands out for me is the album constantly evolves and rebounds between warmingly numb and embracingly fresh and dewy. No synth stands still. Whether it’s twisted by effects or it’s growing or seeping into another sound – each synth is in motion. Sacred Seeds creates a global ambience.

‘Time Heal’ opens the album with a sunrise of dewy synths, trickling pianos and a warm glow. ‘Falling Petals’ is a shining cascade of synths, chiming keyboards and soft mallet pianos over long-tail guitar rings. Its melody is humble, with a spring in its step. This leads into the masterful 11-minute ‘Woodland Rainbow’. Here modular synths run amok very quietly beneath the more ethereal musical elements. The synths shapeshift from splashy watery sounds into metallic futuristic sharper synths very subtly over the runtime. It is one of those tracks where you don’t realise 11 minutes have passed you by as it’s so hypnotic.

The title track follows. Here Sacred Seeds moves into synthwave ambience with very rubbery synths and raspy retro keys. You could score a late 80s tech company advert or cyberpunk game main menu to this track. That dirtier tone stays for the pensive and somewhat tense ‘Timeless Tales’. The chord progression of the arpeggiating synths is inquisitive and cautionary – as if the song is saying not to repeat the same tale or mistake again. In a warm sea of relaxing soundscapes, it stands out as a cautionary piece. That caution gives way to a raj of calm with the closing track ‘Strings of Memories’. Using synths to evoke a celestial futuristic version of traditional Indian instruments, we get a breathy and airy outro. Add in some light piano and santoor and you have a delicate and uplifting finale to keep you calm.

I’m not normally so appreciative of ambient, new age styled music but ‘Emerald Landscape’ really helped calm me during illness. I think the mix of musical influences, styles and sound palettes sparked my ear, keeping me interested and floating along with the album from beginning to end. Sacred Seeds has crafted a lovely body of work here and if you need to find inner peace or focus on breathing to forget the pain, this is my latest recommendation.

Recommended track: Woodland Rainbow

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