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For several years, Phippen has been releasing his albums on Sam Rosenthal’s Projekt label. The last two, Primordial Forest (2023) and Earthly (2024), feature the Norwegian musician Ivar Lunde Jr., whose sumptuous synthesizers are also present on the recent The Phantom Moon. The new element in this album is the dreamy voice of Paulina Fae, a darkwave muse with many works released under various names over the past twenty years. Her sighs and pagan prayers alternate with the velvety tones of Phippen’s flute, sailing like caravels on the ocean of sound created by the synthesizers – NEW AGE FOR HEALING.
- Roberto Mandolini
Rockerilla Music Magazine (Italy)
- Vito Camarretta
Chain DLK, Italy
The album opens with the title track, “Earthly”, where flutes and synthesizers blend like fog lifting in dawn’s first light. Each note feels like a revelation, as though the instruments themselves had patiently waited for millennia to finally speak. In “Eye of the Day” and “Essence”, we drift deeper, meeting sunlit melodies and eerie nocturnal whispers in equal measure. It’s a little unsettling, like being lulled by a lullaby sung by wolves and wind. And yet, it’s irresistible.
"Primordial Forest is a unique musical experience, a fascinating journey into the heart of consciousness and nature. [Peter and Ivar] invite everyone to lose themselves in the mysteries of music and explore unknown sonic territory."
- Olivier Lehoux
"Solénopole Radio"
France
"The sounds of his [Phippen's] solo flute improvisations are at once mysterious, graceful, refined, and captivating, the sound surrounding the listener like a warm blanket on a cold starlit night from the top of a precipice, the waves of shimmering sonic beauty wafting across the sky."
- Peter Thelen, "Exposé Online"
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