4 tracks. Running time 77:00 Christopher Orczy's latest ambient album Transition is a follow-up to his Harmonium Diaries series, and continues the use of harmonium as sole musical source. This is the first of Christopher's albums that I've heard, and though I was sceptical of a work consisting only of a harmonium throughout I happily discovered that it does work well. It's made up of four inter-related pieces of nineteen minutes each. Though it's up to the listener what to take from this work there's a theme of transition starting at “Presentiment” and culminating in “Consolation”. Before I even looked at the track titles I was struck by the sense of foreboding that is evoked by the first piece “Presentiment”. Here dark throbbing refrains are rising and falling like an ocean swell under deep gray skies presaging a coming storm. All the tracks are made up of drones, but the difference between tracks is in the depth, and light or dark hue of the drones and the manner in which they're used. After the ominous opening piece the mood lightens a little in the following track “Equanimity”. Here the drones slide along in layers with some up and down movement, like sand blowing across gently undulating dunes. Gradually the angst begins to give way so that in “Intercession” warm cushiony drones ebb and flow almost like caresses creating a sensation of comfort being brought to a troubled soul. Finally the sonics hit a throbbing intensity in “Consolation” which like many of the other pieces has drones which ebb and flow. I'd say Transition fits into the “not for the fainthearted” category since it's not an easy listen and takes a few sessions to appreciate the evolving theme across the four tracks. And yet it's absorbing sonically and intriguing emotionally because it leaves interpretation up to the listener.