An excellent companion to Uakti and Philip Glass's wonderful Aguas de Amazonia, U.K. trio Tuu's One Thousand Years is a densely textured ambient homage to primitive magical woodlands, tribal peoples, and sacred waters. The group features not just the expected synthesizer and samples but flutes, panpipes, clay-pot drums, bowl gongs, and a chiming array of percussion. Creating nearly an hour of luscious soundscape at once both ancient and modern, Tuu seem to find influences ranging from Ravi Shankar to Tuvan throat singing and pygmy song; taking cues too, from Tibetan chant and ceremony and the inherent music of old-growth forests visited by wind and rain. Beginning with the haunting dissonance of "Exile," an interplay of sound and silence, drone and tinkling bell, One Thousand Years plays as a mystic song cycle, quite likely to find an audience beyond listeners already won over to music classified as New Age. ~ by Paige La Grone, Amazon.com