Tian Keng by Jeff Sampson and Ed End

This is the meeting of three universes - the convergence of our universes with your universe. Dedicated to those who refuse to live in illusion.

When listening to this album, understand we did not seek to direct it towards any particular form, but rather explored its essence as the music developed around the title track. We did our best to create based on what was being created. Even though it resembles the genre of ambient or dark ambient music, it is much more than that. Instrumental music has a universal reach because it welcomes the dreams of everyone. It resonates with our emotions without them being imprisoned by the staging of song lyrics.

- Ed

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Who will come to challenge the mastery of 'Cosmic Stress Syndrome'?
Who will also powerfully reinvent this formidable innocence, without the illusory and disappointing nostalgia of an imperfect time dreaming of another possibility...

TIAN KENG is obviously an absolute achievement, an impossible realization.

Jeff Sampson and Ed End are madmen (!) defying the current mood, the perfect instigators of a counter-current abstraction. TIAN KENG is definitely a salutary album.

- Thierry Massard / nocovision
https://www.nocovision.com/2024/04/jeff-sampson-ed-end-tiang-keng.html

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Currently, videos for Cosmic Stress Syndrome, Leaving Welcome, Into the Womb of the Depths,Uncreated Ways, Awakening Ritual, Tian Keng, The Clay Chasm of the Stars, and The Bends of Your Second Breath can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKlmwkxGaPxOAE6_jD80-52ZgJw8_xQXo

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Propelled by Ed's initial concept, this album was composed, played and produced by Jeff Sampson and Ed End.

Originally released on Colibri Necrophile and still available in various download formats at https://archive.org/details/Jeff_Sampson_Ed_End_Tian_Keng

Cover art by Ed.

Tracklist

1.	Cosmic Stress Syndrome	6:26

2.	Leaving Welcome	3:52

3.	Into the Womb of the Depths	7:06

4.	Uncreated Ways	6:48

5.	Awakening Ritual	2:37

6.	Tian Keng	18:48

7.	The Clay Chasm of the Stars	9:18

8.	Makeshift Bandage	16:36

9.	Resilience Limit of Elasticity	2:15

10.	Argument	4:50

11.	The Bends of Your Second Breath	4:45

Credits

released March 17, 2024

License

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.