I composed Sojourner with the focused intention of specifically offering listeners a collection of imaginative and meditative quests that, hopefully, will take you to the deep listening and being zone within within your listening space. And with every subsequent listen, perhaps even achieving a different experience by allowing the musical odyssey itself to be your destination. Additionally, for me, Sojourner explores new levels of emotional intensity and tension without dipping into Dark Ambient. So while the music offered here explores a richer emotional intensity, I hope it also still conveys the positive spiritual undercurrents and musical signature associated with my previous Light Ambient efforts. Finally, I added the self-directive: "Go as slow as you can go." My intention with the patient blooming of these tracks is to explore the musical character, nuance, expression, and emotion that unfolds by holding the music to a slower pace--such as a breathing pace or the pace of waves washing onto a seashore. Sojourner is about ambient music that is concentrated, emotionally warm, and visceral, yet evenly paced for highly concentrated and deeply contemplative aural journeys. ~ PW - July 2013 All music composed and recorded by Phillip Wilkerson. Created with Yamaha Motif XS6, Access Virus / Polar synthesizers. Mastered by Robert Rich at Soundscape - www.robertrich.com Cover photo © Flemming Bo Jensen - www.flemmingbojensen.com Additional photography © Damon Pla - www.damonpla.com All photography licensed or used by permission. ~ “Not all who wander are lost.” - J.R.R. Tolkien “Some journeys lead nowhere, but they set the spirit free.” - Jocelyn Murray “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” - Ernest Hemingway