Matthew Young

Close to little before him and an expression far too ahead of his time, Traveler's Advisory was a home-recorded masterpiece worn by the velvet-beam of electronic-folk and anywhere else the beyond could go. Young's twinkling and intimate dulcimer compositions and squirrelish voice backed by the limbo of synth-rye meanders into a thousand canyons of mysterious end with all ambient rhapsody calling back and fro.

Feathered like Tangerine Dream's Peter Baumann chanting Pentangle's lost chord, whether Carl Orf, 12th century medieval strum, or a very astral Eno-fied rendition of Michael Hurley's "Werewolf" (described by Hurley as "one of the better versions"), Traveler's Advisory freezes our thoughts from all language, and bounds them into the tarnation of a sacred feeling of wind and hope.