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When Eternity Touches Time


1. Parallel Worlds (6:11)
2. Second Sight (5:40)
3. Clouds Hide The Sun (5:07)
4. Playing With Fire (7:04)
5. Diamonds In The Rain (5:37)
6. No In-Between (6:04)
7. Perpetual Epiphany (6:54)
8. The Skies The Limit (5:56)
9. Between Truth And Dreams (4:10)
10. When Eternity Touches Time (6:02)
11. Isolated Realms (7:07)
12. Eternal Changelessness (10:20)

Total playing time: 76:12

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Media: CD (gatefold wallet)

Catalogue Number: GR-11

CD release date: June 2020

Category: Electronic

Original album notes:

All tracks were recorded by Jim Ottaway between August 2015 & April 2020. Mixed & mastered by Jim Ottaway March/April 2020. 'Clouds Hide The Sun' had a very limited release as 'Secrets of the Zodiac' in 2017. This version has additional recordings & has been remixed.

This album is dedicated to the memory of my mate Fr Reg Mills (1932-2019).

Equipment & software used for this production includes: RME Fireface 800, Studio One, Korg Karma, Yamaha Motif-Rack ES, Yamaha MX49 & various VSTs.

Thanks to Fr Reg & Kevin (both living in eternity).

Live in the present, because the present is the point at which time touches eternity. C.S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters.

'The skies' - the heavens... the heavenly realms.

Beyond the skies... the quintessential limit.

Photography, graphics and design by Jim Ottaway.

Additional notes:

'When Eternity Touches Time' was awarded 'Best Electronic Album' at the 17th Annual Zone Music Reporter Awards 2020 announced in New Orleans, USA on 10 July 2021. The album was also nominated for 'Album of the Year'.

'When Eternity Touches Time' was featured as Album der Woche (Album of the Week) #27 on Germany's MODUL303 internet radio station. The album was highlighted in a number of shows throughout the week of 29 June to 5 July 2020.

'When Eternity Touches Time' has debuted at #5 on the One World Music Radio (UK) Top 100 Chart for July 2020. The album dropped to #7 on the August 2020 chart and then to #69 on the September 2020 chart. It rose again to #57 on the October 2020 chart.

'When Eternity Touches Time' charted at #4 on the New Age Music Chart for July 2020.

'When Eternity Touches Time' debuted at #20 on the Zone Music Reporter Top 100 Chart for June 2020. It jumped to #5 on the July 2020 chart and dropped to #8 on the August 2020 chart and then to #23 on the September 2020 chart. The album moved back up to #19 on the October 2020 chart, dropped to #20 on the November 2020 chart and to #24 on the December 2020 chart. The album rose once again to #21 on the January 2021 chart and dropped again to #41 on the February 2021 chart. The album re-entered the May 2021 chart at #30.

'Diamonds In The Rain' from 'When Eternity Touches Time' has come in at #30 on the official One World Music Radio (UK) Top 30 tracks of the year for 2020.

'When Eternity Touches Time' (from the album of the same name) has made it through to the Top 30 (second round of judging) for 2020 Australian Songwriting Awards in the Instrumental Category.

'When Eternity Touches Time' was selected by KCBX (San Luis Obispo, USA) DJ, Sal Espana, as one of his Top 5 albums for 2020 and was included in KCBX complete top album list for 2020.

Two tracks from 'When Eternity Touches Time'... 'Playing With Fire' and 'No In-Between', made the 'Exceptional Merit' list in the Instrumental/World Music category of the 2021 Australian Songwriting Awards. The virtual (online) awards were held on 30 October 2022 in Sydney.

Reviews: "Jim has a very strong and captivating album delivered with pleasant, well played and excellent sounding, melodic electronic music". Paul Rijkens, Dutch progressive rockmagazine iO Pages (The Netherlands). Click here for the full review and reviews of my albums.

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