1)South Africa's very own Enigmatic artist, hailing from my home place of Cape Town. Their debut album Sands of Time was released in 2001 by local publisher Saville McLowe Music, with a distribution deal in Britain through Passion Music Ltd. Combining a variety of inspirations, these 12 songs composed by Lynne Holmes and David Beukes, are atmospheric and rhythmic using synthesisers, chants and gorgeous acoustic piano themes. Native American, Tibetan, Hebrew and Gregorian chants all find their way into this album, but the samples that feature most are the African San samples.

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