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CONTENTS:

NEWS

BARBARA KOLB. Kolb's music is mostly characterized for her
colourful textures, usually interwoven with impressionist touches
and a freely atonal language that at the same time turns out to be
profoundly harmonic.

REVIEWS:
ALQUIMIA: "A SEPARATE REALITY" Prudence / BSC Music
ROBERT RICH: "SOMNIUM" (DVD) Hypnos
VARIOUS: "MUSIC FOR THE 3rd MILLENNIUM VOL. 2" AMP Records
VARIOUS: "DREAMS & SHADOWS" Spotted Peccary
VARIOUS "ROMANTICA VOL. 2" Prudence / BSC Music
GREEN ISAC: "GROUNDRUSH" Spotted Peccary
FARFIELD: "DUST AND GLASS" Ambient-Music.com

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NEWS

Unreleased music by Dom F. Scab is now available online in MP3
format at Dom F. Scab's mp3.com page.

http://www.mp3.com/domfscab

SEQUENCES MAGAZINE Issue 24 / CD
The issue 24 of the English-written magazine SEQUENCES contains
articles and interviews about: Invisible Shadows, Kinetik, Robert
Carty, Foreign Spaces, News, and a lot of reviews. CD tracks:
Craig Padilla: "One 96", Syndromeda in Chaos: "Huizen Express",
Foreign Spaces: "Phaeton 1V-Continuation", T-Bass UK: "6equjs
(WoW!)", Ashok: "Again to Ricochet", Steve Frost: "Downward
Spiral", Tranquility: "State of Hysteria", Jim Ballard:
"Untitled", Digital Art: "Symphonies and Answers", The Borg:
"Obscene Machine".

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BJORN LYNNE
New studio album "REVIVE"

A driving, positive, uplifting and melodic album of progressive
and symphonic rock. This music wasn't written to be "clever" -
just great listening. Featuring guest appearances by the awesome
lead guitarist Rory McLeish (with a playing style not unlike
Satriani), Revive is a bombshell of an instrumental rock feast
that will keep you nailed to the floor... no... the ceiling!

-"With searing guitars, 'Revive' leaves most instrumental projects
in the dust" - (Symphonie Fantastique)

-"Powerful and consistent stuff. Bjorn Lynne has done it
...again!" -(Margen Magazine)

-"The talent of this artist is not only obvious in the composition
of the music, but also in the rich orchestration, the careful
selection of sounds and even the mixing. Definitely, a luxurious
album in the already intrinsically brilliant career of this
composer." - (Amazing Sounds)

Available now from your favourite prog-rock pusher or:

http://www.lynnemusic.com

Bjorn Lynne bio:

Originally from Norway, this multi instrumentalist moved to
England in 1995 to have a full hearted go at making a living as a
progressive rock and synth-rock artist. He has since lived in
Yorkshire and has established himself as the new and fresh voice
in progressive, symphonic and electronic crossover music. His
music keeps the listener on tip-toes throughout, described by
reviewers as a mix of Dream Theater, Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd,
Flower Kings and Ayreon - but without wasting time on boring
vocals! His albums are released on Cyclops Records and should be
available through the normal symphonic rock dealers - or you can
get them direct from Bjorn himself, at his personal web site :

http://www.lynnemusic.com

(Secure online ordering and fast delivery world wide.)

Also available from Bjorn Lynne:

- "Witchwood" (1996)
- "The Void" (1997)
- "Wizard of the Winds (1998)
- "Wolves of the Gods" (1999)
- "Revive" (2000)

http://www.lynnemusic.com

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The issue 22 of the Spanish-written magazine MARGEN contains
articles and interviews about: Museo Rosenbach, Navigator, Cyber
Zen Sound Engine, North Star, Pallas, Porcupine Tree, Slede Zive
Slede, Deadwood Forest, Edhels, Inquire, Avalon, White Willow,
Randy Greif, Crawling With Tarts, Micro-Ritmia, Orient Squeezers,
Michael Robinson, Exsimio, Archie Patterson (eurock),
trajedesaliva, Bruno Sanfilippo, Angel Rubio, OZ, VII Revoltallo
Festival, MexProg 2000 Festival, E-Live 2000 Festival, CO-LAB
Festival, Groove Records, Sonori, Boheme, and many CD reviews.
This issue is accompanied of 2 CDs: "MUSIC FROM THE EDGE VOL. 3"
and "GROOVE UNLIMITED SAMPLER". The first one contains these
pieces: Ritmia: "Oktum", Slede Zive Slede: "Fair Warning, Orient
Squeezers: "Maheswar, Kevin Leonard (North Star): "Quadrette",
Zinkl: "Fizzlypuzzly Ballet", Ensemble Nimbus: "Sneaker Balls", La
Neura: "Guardapolvo/La Corneta Fantasma", Oz: "What's Behind You",
Deadwood Forest: "Seven Eighties", Trajedesaliva: "Mima+". The
second CD contains these tracks: Ron Boots: "Twisted Tales"
(excerpt) (from the CD "Different Stories and Twisted Tales"),
Future World Orchestra: "Running Water" (excerpt) (from the CD
"The Hidden Files"), Eric van der Heijden: "Da Capo" (excerpt)
(from the CD "Da Capo"), Hemisphere: "Psychedelic Friends Create"
(excerpt) (from the CD "Inversion"), Frank van Bogaert: "Deserts"
(excerpt) (from the CD "Geographic"), Syndrone: "Avonlea"
(excerpt) (from the CD "Being There"), Wavestar: "Crystal Ashes"
(excerpt) (from the CD "Out of Time"), Steve Roach & Vidna Obmana:
"Common Ground" (excerpt) (from the CD "Live Archive"), Rudy
Adrian: "Coming Home" (excerpt) (from the CD "Kinetic Flow:
"Sequencer Sketches vol.1"), Intelligentsia: "Off World" (excerpt)
(from the CD single "The Signal to Off World"), Kees Aerts:
"Travel" (excerpt) (from the CD "Slices of Time"), Michael
Stearns: "Portraits" (excerpt) (from the CD "Floating Whispers"),
Victor Cerullo: "Liberation" (excerpt) (from the CD "Ludus"), John
Dyson: "Tempus Fugit" (excerpt) (from the CD "Silverbird"), Kees
Aerts & James Clent: "Surfacing from Beyond" (excerpt) (from the
CD "Truth or Dare"), Ron Boots, Ian Body, Harold van der Heijden:
"Eurasia" (excerpt) (from the CD "Phase 3"), Alpha Wave Movement:
"Another Time… Another Place" (excerpt) (from the CD "Drifted into
deeper Lands"), The Blue Team: "Prologue" (excerpt) (from the CD
"The Blue Team").

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BARBARA KOLB

Kolb's music is mostly characterized for her colourful textures,
usually interwoven with impressionist touches and a freely atonal
language that at the same time turns out to be profoundly
harmonic. Many of her works drink from the source of ideas and
images which sprout from the world of literature and the visual
arts.

Born in Connecticut in 1939, Barbara Kolb finished her musical
studies cum laude at the Hartt College of Music at Hatford
University. Having an eminently classical background, this
composer combines her academic knowledge with an exploration of
the sonic possibilities offered by the new technologies always
within the context of academic music with mastery. Among her
recordings mention must be made of her work "Rebuttal", a work she
composed for a clarinet duo performed by clarinetists George
Hirner and Gary McGee, which was released in 1964 under the label
Opus One, this being a small recording company specializing in the
release of minority musics and especially devoted to women
composers.

Barbara's compositions have awarded her numerous prizes throughout
her career, and her worth as a composer has brought her the chance
to receive several scholarships and grants, as for instance in
three occasions by the prestigious Tanglewood institution, besides
the four she was given by MacDowell, plus another two by
Guggenheim. Kolb was also the first woman to receive the American
Prix in Rome (1969-71), a prize that awarded her prolific work in
musical composition. The artist, who could continue with her
musical studies in Vienna thanks to a Fulbright scholarship, has
been commissioned different works to develop her career as a
composer throughout the seventies, among them one by the
Koussevitzky Foundation, besides others by the Council for the
Arts of the State of New York, The National Association of Music
Teachers, The Washington Association for the Performing Arts, and
the Fromm Foundation, between the years 1970 and 1980. Other
grants that this composer has received throughout her career
include those given by the Institute for the Arts and Letters in
1973, and the "National Endowment for the Arts" in the years 1972,
1974, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1989 (this grant would allow her to
finance the release of some of her most well known compositions),
and 1992.

Among the different performances of her work given by several
symphonic orchestras having an international recognition, mention
must be made of those by the New York Philarmonic Orchestra,
conducted by Pierre Boulez in 1975, and the Synmphonic Orchestra
of Boston, conducted by Seiji Ozawa, this latter one having
performed both at Boston and at Japan, during a Japanese tour they
went on in 1978.

Between the years 1979 and 1982, Kolb became the Artistic Director
for the Contemporary Music Department at the institution "Third
Street Music School Settlement", where she presented the series of
concerts "Music New to New York".

During the period between the years 1983 and 1984, Barbara Kolb
would spend nine months at the IRCAM, where she was commissioned
to write what was to become her work "Millefoglie", composed for a
chamber ensemble and tape.

In the next two years (1984-85), Barbara gets a post as visiting
professor for composition at the Eastman School of Music.

One year later, in 1986, The Congressional Library commissions her
to write a program for the theoretical education in music for the
blind and the physically handicapped, a task she accomplishes with
her proverbial professionality and efficiency. This same year she
premieres her work "Umbrian Colors", composed for violin and
guitar, masterfully performed by Pina Carmirelli and David
Starobin. The author had especially composed this work for the
latter. "Umbrian Colors" premieres at the Marlboro Musical
Festival.

In 1987 the Fromm Foundation and the Symphonic Chamber Orchestra
from New York comission her to compose a new work, which premieres
at New York, titled "Yet That Things Go Round", conducted by
Gerard Schwarz. This same years, the artist is awarded the
prestigious "Kennedy Center Friedheim Award" for her work
"Millefoglie".

A new commission, this time by the Symphonic Orchestra of Atlanta,
produces "The Enchanted Loom", a work that comes to be performed
by this same orchestra, conducted by Robert Shaw in 1990.

The following year Barbara Kolb composes "Voyants", a work that
was to become one of the most widely performed ones from her
repertoire. Composed for piano and chamber orchestra, this work
was a commission by Radio France after she had performed at Paris
in 1991. A year later, Kolb premieres at the USA, at the
prestigious Kennedy Center, in a program wholly devoted to her
compositions, performed by the "Theater Chamber Players". Also,
the Austrian radio broadcasts "Voyants" in another program also
devoted to her, a performance adequately given by the Twentieth
Century Ensemble. Likewise, the American symphonic Orchestra, I
Solisti di Villa Abrizzi (Venice), and the Memphis Symphonic
Orchestra have also programmed this composition among their
performances in different occasions.

In 1994, Barbara Kolb composes her orchestral work "All in Good
Time", commissioned by the New York Philarmonic Orchestra to
celebrate their 150th. season anniversary. This work premiered in
February, conducted by Leonard Slatkin. Some time later, Slatkin
would conduct "All in Good Time" with the St. Louis Symphonic
Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphonic Orchestra.

Barbara's latest chamber works include the following compositions:
"New York Moonglow", a commission by the Elisa Monte Dance
company, written for a sextet of saxophone, trumpet, strings and
percussion, and "Sidebars", a bassoon and piano duo she composed
for Italian bassoonist Stefano Canuti.

Hopefully, the music composed by this minoritary composer will
continue to appear in the concert programs of the orchestras all
over the world.

(By Montse Andreu)

If you wish to purchase any recordings by Barbara Kolb you only
have to use this link:

http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=barbara+kolb

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REVIEWS:

ALQUIMIA:
"A SEPARATE REALITY"
Prudence / BSC Music
This album is influenced by the writing of Carlos Castaneda. His
mystic words are the perfect envelope for the electronic music
composed by Alquimia. Here, the Mexican-born singer, composer and
synthesist, explores more accessible musical pathways. The female
voice, synthesizers and the sound processing are yet the main
traits (you can find them in her latest dark ambient works) but
now she has created a new atmosphere which mixes ambient,
experimental, ethnic and synthesizer music. Mark Jenkins and Lukax
Santana contribute on a couple of tracks. Alquimia plays
synthesizers, samplers and Mexican pre-Hispanic percussion. The
album was presented on a life performance at Holland's Alfa
Centaury Festival on March 1998.
MANUEL MONTES

ROBERT RICH:
"SOMNIUM" (DVD)
Hypnos
The seven hours of music of this DVD disc by Robert Rich are treks
towards the deepest areas of Ambient. Explorer of fathomless
musical abysses, the artist offer us a work of electronic music of
a deeply oniric nature. Three long symphonies ideal to let
imagination soar through unearthly worlds.
EDGAR KOGLER

VARIOUS:
"MUSIC FOR THE 3rd MILLENNIUM VOL. 2"
AMP Records
This album gathers some of the most charismatic composers of
innovative music, with a special dominance of the Space or Ambient
trends. This is the contents of the compact disc: Deep Forest:
"Alexis", Bernard Xolotl: "Detour", Dave Greenslade: "The Tiger &
The Dove; 2001 Remix", Logic System: "Metamorphosis", Michael
Stearns: "Coyote Remembers", Nick Rhodes: "Medazzaland", Spiral Of
Silence: "Lost Cities #5; City In The Sea", Ryo Okumoto: "The
Imperial", Wave World: "Cloudseeder", Nash The Slash: "The Hunt",
Michael Rother / Dieter Moebius: "Esperanza", Clearlight:
"Anatole", Modulus: "Music For The Motion Picture "The
Slaughterer'", Bernd Kistenmacher: "Rittorno A Casa; London Mix",
Nick Magnus: "Night", Paul Haslinger: "Octahedron 2".
EDGAR KOGLER

VARIOUS:
"DREAMS & SHADOWS"
Spotted Peccary
This interesting sampler of ambient music contains the following
themes: "Before Dawn" by Deborah Martin, "At the Edge of Calm
Waters - I" by Mark Rownd, "Blue Lake" (Remix) by Deborah Martin,
"Breathing In The Deep" by Jon Jenkins, "A Luminous Touch" by J.
Arif Verner, "Painting Twilight" by Mark Rownd, "Loss of Words" by
David Helpling, "Eyes of Azure" by Mark Rownd, "All Things End" by
David Helpling. The music is crystalline, warm, with mystic
environments.
EDGAR KOGLER

If you wish to purchase this recording you only have to use this
link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005A0D5/thesciencebookbo

VARIOUS
"ROMANTICA VOL. 2"
Prudence / BSC Music
Like the title suggests, the whole release shows an obvious
romantic character. This compilation contains the following
themes: Aschera: "Song Of Joyt", Christopher Dean: "Window To
Heaven", Rudy K: "Sunrise", Aschera: "Return Of The Angels",
Bernward Koch: "Cousin Beko", Aschera: "Time Of Dreams", David
Scott: "Welcoming Grace", Aschera: "Sentimental", Peter Grant:
"Dawn", Bernward Koch: "Little Hannah", Bernward Koch: "Lazy
Afternoon", Paul Heinerman: "Across The Desert", Kramarz:
"Remember The Day", Aschera: "You And Me", Bernward Koch:
"Wonderful Glider". The pieces constituting this compilation flow
between Atmospheric Pop and New Instrumental Music.
SARAH TOMBLIN

GREEN ISAC: "GROUNDRUSH" Spotted Peccary. Imaginative Atmospheric
Pop with certain World Music traits. More info and sound samples
here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005AQJT/thesciencebookbo

FARFIELD: "DUST AND GLASS" Ambient-Music.com. Ambient Music linked
to the experimental aspect of this style.
http://www.ambient-music.com

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