Echoing Delight

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Echoing Delight
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 5, 1993
RecordedJanuary 1992 (1992-01)–March 1993 (1993-03)
Genre Ambient
Length67:40
Label Extreme
Vidna Obmana chronology
Ending Mirage
(1993)
Echoing Delight
(1993)
The Spiritual Bonding
(1994)
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Echoing Delight is an album by Vidna Obmana, released on October 5, 1993 through Extreme Records.

Contents

Track listing

All music is composed by Vidna Obmana, except "Narrow Gloom (Part Two)" co-composed by Djen Ajakan Shean

No.TitleLength
1."Winter Mouvement"8:00
2."Crystal Travelling"9:25
3."Empty Night"7:50
4."Echoing Delight"17:30
5."Narrow Gloom" (part two)10:00
6."Glass Splendour"14:55

Personnel

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References

  1. Brenholts, Jim. "Echoing Delight". Allmusic. Retrieved April 25, 2013.