'The Endless Knot' is semi-progressive ceremonial rock with a twist of ambient and Gamelan - Gamelan being the traditional music of Bali. It was recorded in 2000 by Diatonis.


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The album consists of 7 songs in the Apple Lossless format (*.m4a). These files are playable in iTunes as well as other programs. You can also burn these files to a CDr (iTunes) as they are of the same sound quality as that from a normal audio CD: 44.1kHz / 16-bit / Stereo un-compressed.

1. Klab Cros Templi
2. Offering
3. Unlock The World
4. Meditation
5. The Endless Knot
6. Eight Thousand Verses
7. Turning Tide

The Phrase "Endless Knot" is also called the Knot of Eternity. It's a Buddhist symbol that symbolizes the connection between time and space. For more information on what the 'Endless Knot' as a symbol means search for: The Eight Auspicious Symbols in your favorite search engine.

The Endless Knot is rather dark Ambient with some heavy hitting and mildly progressive rock elements. The album fuses Indonesian Gamelan with powerful electric bass and acoustic drums (Hear songs, "Klab Cros Templi" and, "The Endless Knot"). Metal plates were used as the Gamelan. With the added hand drums, flutes, prayer bells, bass, and keyboard samples, some very original music has been created (Hear songs "Unlock the World", and "Eight Thousand Verses"). There was very little MIDI and no guitar used in the album.

The song "Unlock the World" was inspired by the Balinese Horse Dance - which is a possession ritual. The song incorporates chants and prayer bells, pan flute, Tibet bowls, and Tuvien vocal samples. The timing of the Gamelan (bells, drums, bass) has a trance inducing effect. This is my own attempt to capture the sense of power and apparent randomness the style gives rise to.

There are three dark ambient pieces (listen to "Offering", "Meditation", and "Turning Tide"), which have a very organic sound to them. Some of the other instruments are Tibetan and Pan Flutes, Doumbek, Bodhran, Chinese Wind Gongs, and Tibetan Bowls.

This album is my first CD, though I've been creating music since 1976. I was 16 then and very into John Bonham. I thought of him while playing "Klab Cros Templi". There's some Bill Bruford there in "The Endless Knot" as well.