An evolutionary music : original recordings 1972-1979

"Some pieces seem promising in their mesmerism, but don't hang around long enough to fully take effect, instead coming across as detours rather than full-fledged trips. Kalma's own "Love and Dream" reminds me of Laraaji (another such cosmic artist recently reassessed) but in a smaller dosage. Only on the 19-minute tapestry "Yogini Breath", which Kalma developed for use with a friend's breath therapy work, does the true scope of his sonic vision come into full view. Powered along by struck bells and the sound of the incoming tide, veil-like layers of sound accrue: a chorale of wordless chants, a ticking drum machine, thrumming bass, and more bells. Kalma weaves them all together into something dense, kaleidoscopic and weightless at once, a magic carpet ride".

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"The overriding attitude of this long collection of his early tape recordings is one of meditation. Kalma is as oppositional to the contemporary mainstream as you can imagine; the pieces for the most are designed around single sustained organ or brass notes, with primitive delay effects sending melodic patterns from one ear to the other, suggestive of karmic balance ... It's hard not to like the philosophy that it reveals as running through all of his early work; a respectful coexistence between the ancient and the modern and the Oriental and Occidental that feels rarer today even than it did then".