..."Astral" unfolds so gradually in wave after wave of beauty and bliss. The music is like slowly and effortlessly gliding over a rolling landscape with the glow of soft purple light from a setting sun bathing you and the land below. ...color me impressed, blown-away, and mystified. ~ Bill Binkelman, Wind and Wire ...some of the most superlative ambient music I've ever heard. It is a work of staggering beauty and nuance, at once improvisational and composed. This disc has such an emotional and spiritual resonance for me; it is as if Cole had tapped into my biorhythms for 74 minutes, occupying my thoughts, and impregnating all activity around me with meaning where before there seemed to be none. This is timeless, important music, and I give it my highest recommendation. ~ Brian Bieniowski, The Ambient Review