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WINNER - ZMR Music Award - "Best Electronic Album of the Year"
WINNER - ZMR Music Award - "Best Ambient Album of the Year"
WINNER - ZMR Music Award - "Best Cover Art"
ECHOES Radio CD of the month

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Following the release of their first collaboration, Treasure, David Helpling and Jon Jenkins spent the next two years in the depths of deep exile studio, carefully crafting The Crossing. With this second collaboration, Helpling and Jenkins embark on a fresh sonic expedition – a cinematic, powerful and deeply melodic triumph that lifts their music to new heights.

The Crossing is a project which ignores current trends in ambient and electronic music, and Helpling and Jenkins are fearless in their pursuit of the lush and monumental sound that dominates their artistic vision. All the essentials for an epic journey are here: compelling and expansive multi-layered drum elements contrasted by alluring yet elusive textures, strong melodies appearing over powerful percussion, synths and guitars, all of which give way to vast spaces of deep and mystifying ambience. From grand melodic vistas to enveloping sonic clouds of textural mystery, The Crossing leads the listener to the ends of the earth…and beyond.

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REVIEWS


"these two ace musicians continue to blaze a trail where few contemporaries dare to tread."
—Zone Music Reporter

"I can’t recommend this album enough, wish I could give it 10 stars instead of 5!"
—Tangram's Music Blog

"You can't help but be swept up in the cinematic expanse of The Crossing"
—Echoes CD of the Month

"Not since the mid-'80s has the genre had a duo that so powerfully and hypnotically fuses keyboard, electric guitar, and ambient textures."
—All Music

"rock power and ambient disposition"
—Goatsden

"a bold, hefty, cinematic work, moving and panoramic and dramatic enough to frequently take your breath away"
—Hypnagogue

"loaded with intrinsic beauty, emotion and flair"
—Sonic Immersion

"Helpling and Jenkins treat the audience to rich, methodical tunes no hit-making producer could ever create"
—The Celebrity Cafe

"captures the best qualities of emotive electronic music"
—Progression Magazine (issue 61)

"expansive panoramas of sweeping beauty and elegant drama"
—Morpheus Music

"an inspired ascendancy that takes it all to the next level"
—Expose Magazine, issue 39


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