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AMAZING SOUNDS No.124 / March 31, 2003
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CONTENTS:

NEWS

REVIEWS:
JEAN-PIERRE SACCOMANI: "MUSIC FOR TIME" MCP Productions
HARALD GROSSKOPF: "DIGITAL NOMAD" AMP Music
VARIOUS: "THE GATHERINGS" Synkronos
RICHARD PINHAS: "EVENT AND REPETITIONS" Cuneiform Records
LARRY POLANSKY: "FOUR-VOICE CANNONS" Cold Blue
CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE: "AUSLANDER"
DAVID WRIGHT: "WALKING WITH GHOSTS" AD Music
VARIOUS: "PRESENCE III" Productions Electro Productions / Concordia University
PAU TORRES: "SONGS FOR NULA" Testing Ground
JUHA VALKEAPAA: "SIBERIAN SUMMER" Testing Ground

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NEWS

Since Bjorn Lynne started working on the series of "Worms" computer games in
1995, he has done a lot of comedy style music for these games. A couple of
tracks from previous "Worms" games are now available in streaming mp3:
"Wormsong": The first, original Worms theme from 1995. Featuring a storyteller
voice and funny worms vocals on the chorus. "Worms World Party": A kind of
humoristic "around the world in two minutes" musical rendition of the Worms
theme. These can now be heard here:
http://www.mp3.com/bjornlynne

The upcoming trance CD "Power Liquids" by Divinorum & Aural Planet is now
mastered and is currently being mass produced in the CD factory. In this webpage
you can now hear clips from all tracks on the album:
http://www.lynnemusic.com/powerliquids.html

Some drawings by Peter Frohmader are online here:
http://www.dbeau-arts.de/Nekropolis/Drawings_Thumbs.html

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REVIEWS:

JEAN-PIERRE SACCOMANI:
"MUSIC FOR TIME"
MCP Productions
Exploring new paths of symphonism by means of synthesizers, the artist achieves
the creation of pieces possessing a sober, elegant classicism, with complex
melodies that range from the cerebral to the sentimental. Some passages with a
melancholy air possess a truly impressive strength. The music by Jean-Pierre
Saccomani is a perfect example that the most legitimate of evolutions of
Classical Music is in the new paths that electronics opens in symphonism, rather
than in acoustic experimentation..
EDGAR KOGLER

HARALD GROSSKOPF:
"DIGITAL NOMAD"
AMP Music
Harald Grosskopf makes a thorough display of musical power in this album. With a
global approach that mostly moves through pure Techno, Ambient and Atmospheric
Pop, the music includes traits of ethnic music, yet not in the ususal way (as
mere adornments), as they appear in many albums by an infinity of apparently
innovating artists. Here, Grosskopf is skillfully opening a door towards a genre
that could be defined as"cyber-ethnic music".
EDGAR KOGLER

VARIOUS:
"THE GATHERINGS"
Synkronos
This CD is a magnificient compilation of live performances by various artists of
Space Music, Ambient and electronic music in general. It has been released to
celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Gatherings Concert Series, events
organized in Philadelphia, USA, and which allow for making music without
commercial constraints regularly available to the followers of these genres,
with all the power of a live performance. The artists that appear in the album
are: The Ministry of Inside Things, Bionaut, Ben Neill, Steve Roach, Robert
Rich, Kevin Bartlett and Jeff Greinke.
JORGE MUNNSHE

RICHARD PINHAS:
"EVENT AND REPETITIONS"
Cuneiform Records
With the peculiar styles that characterize this artist, Richard Pinhas creates
in this album a continent of sound shines, an ideal soundtrack to accompany
spectacular images of the solar activity. Using an electric guitar linked to an
entire electronic paraphernalia, the artist sculpts dense textures, majestic,
symphonic, though not lacking in psychedelic traits. The five tracks are slow,
but not static. The melodies are based on complex accords that come and go over
dense choirs of sustained sounds.
JORGE MUNNSHE

LARRY POLANSKY:
"FOUR-VOICE CANNONS"
Cold Blue
Ususual architectures of sound,electro-acoustic collages, and the use of silence
to enhance the apparition onstage of the different sonic events that come one
after another, these are the main elements where this experimental work relies
on.
DOMINIQUE CHEVANT

CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE:
"AUSLANDER"
Starting from a stylistic basis shaped between Techno and Atmospheric Pop, Cyber
Zen Sound Engine sculpt a series of innovative themes, where traits of New
Instrumental Music and even some epic, dark passages that could be the main
theme for a movie of sorcerers and knights, can be appreciated.
EDGAR KOGLER

DAVID WRIGHT:
"WALKING WITH GHOSTS"
AD Music
The fifteen tracks included in this album offer a clear perspective of the style
of this composer. The melodies, mostly luminous, optimistic and vital, are one
of his main successes. Also, his successful fusion between traits of Atmospheric
Pop, Ambient and New Instrumental Music, is likewise remarkable. Special mention
must be made of "No more Angels", a piece with a great strength that has a
certain symphonic and psychedelic air.
EDUARDO FONTANA

VARIOUS:
"PRESENCE III"
Productions Electro Productions / Concordia University
A new compilation of experimental pieces developed by the Canadian
Electroacoustic Community, it reflects the innovative work made by artists from
several countries in the field of electro-acoustic music. The contents of
"Presence III" is as follow: Kristi Allik: "Machine Symphony", James Bentley:
"Double exposure", David Berezan: "In a Cold Light", James Caldwell: "Mechanism
II", Grant Chu Covell: "Octet with Puzzle", Ian Chuprun:"I was very safe in my
dream", John Duesenberry:"WaveBreak", Martín Fumarola: "Estatismo", Martín
Fumarola: "SC", Thomas Gerwin: "Fontaine de Vaucluse", Martin Gotfrit:
"Balloon", Camille Goudeseune: "Rarae Aves", David Hirst: "Mon Dieu", Matthew
Kober: "X-Ray Spex", Tony K.T. Leung: "When light first shone", Tung-Lung Lin:
"Mirror of Time", sylvi macCormac: "penny: a process", Sophia Male: "Alarm
Calls", Michael Matthews: "On the Outer Edge", David R. Mooney: "The Llama
Strut", Adrian Moore: "Becalmed 1", Rick Nance: "This is Not a Model", Steven
Naylor: "Irrashaimase", Dale Perkins: "Submarine", Laurie Radford: "Les ponts de
l'espace", Ewan Stefani: "blue balloons", Pascale Trudel: "Soleil qui inonde mes
mains", Rodney Waschka II: "Still Life with Castanets", Richard Zvonar / Robert
Black: "Massif".
DOMINIQUE CHEVANT

PAU TORRES:
"SONGS FOR NULA"
Testing Ground
As if it were a recording directly made from the sub-conscious, the themes in
this mini-CD flow among currents from very different classes with a great ease,
in the same way as in our mind we can go from a thought to another. From
psychedelic Jazz to New Instrumental Music, to Concrete music, and many other
genres. After "Songs for Nula", there is a very interesting creative work in
this release.
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

JUHA VALKEAPAA:
"SIBERIAN SUMMER"
Testing Ground
A hypnotic music ranging from Minimalism, to Ambient and to electro-acoustic
collage.A surrealist excursion to a Siberian summer painted in the imagination
of Juha Valkeapaa, it features metallic sounds, dry and creaking, which turn out
to be rather remarkable.
VICENTE GISPERT

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