FYC (Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album)
Blue Landscapes V: FOREVER THE SEA
Robert Thies & Damjan Krajacic
“Blue Landscapes in nature are born in the threshold where water meets sky: a place of stillness, reflection, and infinite possibility. In this elemental meeting, the piano becomes the voice of water: deep, flowing, and resonant with emotion. The flute, by contrast, carries the essence of air: weightless, expansive, and ethereal. Together they weave. This music is not written, but discovered, an improvisational current shaped by trust, by listening, and by the natural melody that arises when two elements meet in harmony.” — Ana Victoria Esquivel
“…for ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of time.”
— H.P. Lovecraft
Album Credits
Blue Landscapes V: Forever the Sea
Robert Thies & Damjan Krajacic
Robert Thies, piano
Damjan Krajacic, flutes
Sangeeta Kaur, vocals (Track 14)
All music composed by Robert Thies (BMI) and Damjan Krajacic (ASCAP)
Produced by Damjan Krajacic, Robert Thies, Danaë Vlasse and Greg Scelsa
Assistant Producer Ana Victoria Esquivel
Recorded at RoBear Studios, Santa Clarita, CA, August 30- September 17, 2021
Vocals recorded at Studio Hill Austin, June 2025
Steinway piano tuned by Hollis Erdmann
Engineered by Michael Aarvold
Vocals Recording Engineering by Gerhard Joost
Edited and mixed by Damjan Krajacic
Mastered by Drazen Sabian at Fullsound, London, UK
Design by Dean Roksandic “Bembelembe” (www.bembelembe.com)
© ℗ Gentle Rain Records 2025
(i’d follow you) to the edge of the world
I’d follow you to the edge of the world,
past ancient coasts where mem’ries call,
from beneath your sky, where love flows through the mist,
on glassy seas to silken clouds.
Forever the sea shelters our voices in the blue.
And when she plays in the rain, she affirms our path:
to guide us tonight, she becomes a mirror —
a mirror of floating stars.
Our sails know the way through the waters between us,
past rocky shores and siren calls.
And so it shall be our quiet cove lullaby, singing:
“no map, just sky.”
I’d follow you to the edge of the world,
and to all ends of the earth.
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Lyrics by Danaë Xanthe Vlasse
Music by Robert Thies
Performed by: Robert Thies, piano, Damjan Krajacic, flute, and featuring Sangeeta Kaur, vocals
"Thies and Krajacic bring fresh, free-flowing energy to the art of new age improvisation they’ve created and mastered over the course of five critically lauded, genre-defining albums"
Jonathan Widran, JW Vibe, September 2, 2025
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"Blue Landscapes V - Forever the Sea is outstanding from the first note to the last and proves that Robert Thies and Damjan Krajacic are artists in every sense of the word!"
Kathy Parsons, MainlyPiano.com, August 29, 2025
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"This is music for reflection, for renewal, for journeying to the edge of the world and beyond. In Blue Landscapes V: Forever the Sea, the ocean sings—and we are grateful to listen."
Michael Foster, Ambient Visions, August 15, 2025
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"I love how this music is both complex and light at the same time; it is everything you want it to be. It is a soundscape you can spend your day in."
BT Fasmer, New Age Music Guide, January 17, 2020
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"Extraordinary in its artistry. Don’t miss it!"
Kathy Parsons, Mainly Piano, January 18, 2020
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"…the performances are perfect magic, with haunting melodies, all gorgeous, no darkness or thunder, no hurry, no worry — reaching forefronts of beauty and visions of nature, reinforcing a feeling of connection to our planet."
Robin B James, Ello, January, 2020
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"Award-winning improvisational duo concept, Blue Landscapes, over the past seven years proves that unexpected, soul-stirring transcendence is possible when musicians are willing to venture outside their longtime areas of expertise and embrace the unknown."
Jonathan Widran, The JW Vibe, October 17, 2019
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"There is stillness and softness and ample length of lull to allow your body and mind to consume the essence of the music."
Vivek Kumar, 2indya, January 5, 2020