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CONTENTS:

JOHN LAKVEET (INTERVIEW) John Lakveet is an imaginative renovator
of Space Sequencer Music that became famous specially thanks to
his album "Sequentiagite". Energy, warmth and sensibility would
perhaps be the most adequate words to refer to his music.

REVIEWS:
DOM F. SCAB: "ANALOGICAL CONFESSIONS" Groove Unlimited
J.M. CIRIA: "YLEM" At-Mooss Records
JONN SERRIE: "LUMIA NIGHTS" Neuronium Records
SMOO: "TRAFFIC IN MY SOUL" Neuronium Records
VARIOUS: "SEQUENCES 27" Sequences Magazine
SYN: "SOUNDWAVE TRAVELLER" Spheric Music
VICTOR NUBLA: "SEVEN HARBOUR SCENES" Hronir
ARTEMIY ARTEMIEV & PHILLIP B. KLINGLER: "A MOMENT OF INFINITY"
Electroshock Records
ARTEMIY ARTEMIEV & KARDA ESTRA: "EQUILIBRIUM" Electroshock Records
ARTEMIY ARTEMIEV & CHRISTOPHER DE LAURENTI: "57 MINUTES TO
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JOHN LAKVEET (INTERVIEW)

John Lakveet is an imaginative renovator of Space Sequencer Music
that became famous specially thanks to his album "Sequentiagite".
Energy, warmth and sensibility would perhaps be the most adequate
words to refer to his music.

When did you discover electronic music?

"I cannot precisely pinpoint that because when I started liking
music, I couldn't discern whether it was electronic or otherwise,
but my oldest memory could go back to the seventies with bands of
the time."

How did your vocation as a composer begin?

"There was a piano at home, so that my sisters could study their
careers as performers. I used to spend the afternoons playing and
enjoying the combination of notes, their repetition, yet I missed
the fact of having further elements available to interrelate them,
that is to say, I noticed the lack of technology to do what
occurred to me, without being really aware of that."

What does electronic music have for you, as a listener and as a
composer, that acoustic music does not have?

"The search for different timbres, unreal, in strange shades, and
the possibility of experimentation without strictures."

Do you think that the electronic medium offers more freedom to the
artist than the acoustic one?

"Undoubtedly. The freedom of sound that electronics offers to the
artist is laudable, and the best thing is the fact that you can
have it in your studio at home and create there with no need of
depending on a person for each instrumental sound."

How do you see the debate between the defenders of analogic sound
as opposed to those in favor of digital sound? As a synthesist, do
you feel inclined towards either one of these trends? Do you think
that both can coexist in a quite complementary form under one same
artistic scheme?

"I am not interested in debates. I feel sound as something global.
Attending to Plato's ideas, every sound already exists, the
difference only depends on the element generating them. I don't
particularly care whether a sound is anlogic or digital, provided
I can manipulate it according to my needs and use it the moment I
choose to do so. Personally, analogic sound awakens in me memories
of the great historical moments of the music done with this kind
of synthesis, but no more than that. The co-existence is
undeniable, and enriching, and it is precisely there where the
freedom of the author lies, as he can enhance to a greater or
lesser extent each one of these systems of generation of sound.
The basic thing for me is the sound and the use I can do of it.."

In "Sequentiagite", your first solo album, there appears to be an
intense emotional weigh to be perceived by the listener. Do you
think that feelings play an important role in your music?

"Certainly! Yet more than feelings, we would rather refer to
perceptions."

Or do your creative processes respond to more cerebral approaches?

"Cerebral approaches appear when the language is already shaped,
when I can clearly see what I want to outline and how. It is then
when the intentional resources appear."

Do you mentally relate your music to stories or images?

"In some occasions, yes. But what I really am interested in is to
surprise myself with the music per se."

When you compose, do you try to describe an idea with music, one
that could be translated into a tale, a painting or perhaps even a
film?

"It also depends on the kind of style I execute."

Or on the contrary, in your mind. do your compositions always have
a strictrly sonic stance?

"I have no strictures in that, therefore the ambivalence of both
options is compatible in my sounds and music."

What do you think of the current panorama of electronic music? Do
you think that the diversification of the new trends that appeared
in the 1960s and the 1970s has become a fake avantgarde thus
hindering the progress of the most innovative areas of electronic
music, sucha s for instance the one that tends to be labelled as
"Space Music"?

"Yes, it is sadly so. Although it also is true that in my quest in
search for my own language I am some kind of "anchorite", aside
from the newest, or the new trends, so I don't have clear criteria
about what happens outside. For me, all sounds and their structure
constitute an intimate experience, alien to the outside, which
introduces me to a vast world of connotations, at times colossal,
at other times intimate."

Tell us about "Epikus", your new album. In it you continue with a
line similar to that of "Sequentiagite". Do you think that your
solo style is well reflected in these two albums? Or are there any
aspects of yours which are little known in your solo work?

"When I started with "Epikus", I didn't know what I was in for. In
it I have learned a lot. The result will even appear to be rough
in some aspects, yet now, then, after the work, I believe I
succeeded in taking the helm and redress the route I was
mistakenly taking. In all senses, "Epikus" has been an epic task
for me in its composition, in the masterization and in the graphic
design: I want to thank Jaume Fuentes from Estudios Parsifal the
task of mastering the entire "Epikus" project. As I understand
this, he comprehended the sense and the essence of the project,
providing it with the ideal sonority: And I also owe a debt of
gratitude to Reivax, for the patience and professional skill shown
in the graphic design."

"I am already working on what could be defined as the end of
a stage, which in broad traits I would define as sequential.
My ambitious next project will try to culminate this cycle.,
which already began with my first works, with Technoayuda or
At-Mooss, flirting with various styles that have shaped my
musical language."

(Interview conducted by Jorge Munnshe)

More info here (official website):

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REVIEWS:

DOM F. SCAB:
"ANALOGICAL CONFESSIONS"
Groove Unlimited
Showing an uncanny ability to fusion rhythm and melody, already
known in his previous works, Dom F. Scab re-creates an epic
adventure, brimming with strong emotions. As the title of the
album suggests, the music gathers, in a way, the pioneering
impulse of Space Sequencer Music when, supported by analogic
synthesizers, it opened the doors to a new universe of sound and
music, in the 1970s. The technological evolution followed its
course, thus easing the task of electronic musicians more and
more, yet, in the opinion of many of the followers of this music,
the essence of that First Creative Impulse was lost with the
monopoly of digital sound. However, the pass of time has ended up
by having the artistic dimension of those heroic pioneering
machines grow. In many of those synthesizersr, such as for
instance the Yamaha CS-80 that Scab has been using, the
characteristics that mark its technical fragility are just the
ones that provide them with an expressivity typical of acoustic
instruments most representative of orchestral virtuosity.
Injecting new ideas to that old approach full of technological
romanticism and a vision of the future, the composer succeeds in
getting extraordinarily powerful sequencers, as well as intense,
lively melodies, vital, capable of evoking inner ghosts that
appear to re-create the most transcendental situations of human
existence.
JORGE MUNNSHE

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DOM F. SCAB
Synthesist Dom F. Scab is a member of the band At-Mooss. Born in
1965, he started taking piano lessons at age ten. Over the next
years, he worked toward acquiring the tools and the ability to
develop his own musical style. He began a solo career as a
composer in 1998. His music has gotten airplay on such famous
radio programs like Echoes (in the USA).Scab has composed some
soundtracks. He has collaborated with several musicians, among
them Albert Giménez (ex-member of Neuronium). He is also a skilled
sound engineer.
Essential recordings:
-INNERSEED
-COSMIC NI (& Albert Gimenez)
-SILENT MARS (& John Lakveet)
-BINARY SECRETS
-ANALOGICAL CONFESSIONS
-FACTA
With At-Mooss:
-MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS
-MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS-II
-MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS-III

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J.M. CIRIA:
"YLEM"
At-Mooss Records
This album constitutes, in many aspects, a refreshing breeze
within the current panorama of electronic music. Aside from
the patterns that shape the structure of diverse genres grouped
under the label of "electronic music", J.M. Ciria succeeds in
impressing us with his  music. The album is full of unusual
approaches to these currents within "electronic music", The
composer does not deal with just topics, nor does he lose himself
in purposeless, useless experimentation. The themes flow around
Synth-Pop in a natural, spontaneous way, with touches of Jazz, New
Instrumental Music, Techno, Space Sequencer Music and Ambient.
Although the stylistic spectrum involved is quite wide, the
musical personality of the author throughout the entire CD can be
clearly appreciated. The pieces are usually agile, dynamic, with
sustained rhythms in sequencers and percussion. The melodies are
intense, lucid, direct. In several passages, the melodies are
developed by the rhythmic sequences themselves, something that in
the background of J.M. Ciria as a drummer has no doubt turned out
to be fundamental. Much of the music suggests exciting adventures,
Other parts, such as for instance the theme "Sirius" show a highly
successful romantic character. There also are passages that evoke
the mystery of the indescribable, or the loneliness of deep space.
In short, "Ylem" is an album that will not leave those who enjoy
innovation in music indifferent.
JORGE MUNNSHE

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J. M. CIRIA
José María Ciria has a wide artistic trajectory, whose beginnings
go back to the seventies, Well known, among other aspects, for
his work in the band Program@, he has participated in several
avantgarde bands, and has shaped a very personal style. Apart from
his work as an electronic composer, he also is a famous as a
percussionist who has taken part in albums by well-known artists
and bands, such as for example, Neuronium. His live performances
constitute another important aspect in his career.
Essential discography:
YLEM
In Program@:
ACROPOLIS
ASHES

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JONN SERRIE:
"LUMIA NIGHTS"
Neuronium Records
With his personal cosmic style, Jonn Serrie takes us to a new
voyage among the galaxies. He uses his skills intertwining warm
melodies of a romantic quality, with the capacity of synthesizers
to evoke the immensity of space. Throughout nine tracks, Serrie
re-creates the sensations that we can experience when we watch the
sky on a cleat night. Nightly textures,.misty brush-strokes, light
melodies like a soft breeze, ingravid timbres, these are some of
the identity signs of this music. With a more electronic, space
approach than other albums, the Jonn Serrie we can listen to in
"Lumia Nights" is the poet of the stars, the bard that tells us of
cosmic epics brimming with majesty and romanticism.
JORGE MUNNSHE

SMOO:
"TRAFFIC IN MY SOUL"
Neuronium Records
Taking Atmospheric Pop as a starting point, Smoo weaves a dozen
cottony themes, hypnotic, ingravid. Working with great skill the
combination of synthesizer textures and layers of sounds,, Smoo
succeeds in making the fact of listening to his music into an
experience like watching a first-class pirotechnic spectacle. The
themes usually have a rather slow rhythm, yet it is powerful and
constant. The melodies are warm, sensual, ethereal. The vocals
appearing in some of the tracks have been electronically
manipulated to a greater or lesser extent, thus underlining their
most atmospheric traits, and interwining themselves with the other
sounds in a magic way.
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

VARIOUS:
"SEQUENCES 27"
Sequences Magazine
The audiozine "Sequences 27", that since its issue number 14 has
consisted in a  printed zine accompanied by a CD with pieces from
different artists featured in it, celebrates its ten years of
existence. To do that, this issue includes a double CD with a
wonderful selection of electronic compositions: Steve Roach:
"1992". Rainbow Serpent: "Desert Move". Cosmic Hoffman: "The Gate
Of Bihar". Ron Boots & Kees Aerts: "Sequences Piece". Keller &
Schonwalder: "Virtual World". Airsculpture: "Cement". Vidna
Obmana: "Recoils (Prologue)" Syndromeda: "Intermezzo". Artemiy
Artemiev: "Beyond The Bounds Of Reality". Waveworld: "Sunrise At
Yacekla". Paul Ellis: "Slowly Boating Wings". Mark Jenkins:
"Ekranoplan". Bjorn Lynne: "The Alchemist". Rudy Adrian:
"Stargarden". Michael Shipway & Steve Smith: "The Nova Towers -
Pt3". Thought Guild: "Semiotic Sequence". Transceive: "Evolver".
Gert Emmens: "Gasphar". Ron Boots, Alquimia & Mark Jenkins:
"Forgotten Memories". Skinmechanix: "Waving At Mono". Glimmer
Room: "Unknown Substance". Henric: "Homicide 36 (Dark Version)".
The printed zine accompanying the CD also includes interesting
articles and interviews, as for instance: Mike Oldfield, Paul
Ellis, "The quest for the ultimate analogue sequencer" and others.
EDGAR KOGLER

SYN:
"SOUNDWAVE TRAVELLER"
Spheric Music
Throughout three long pieces, Syn stages a spectacular performance
of synthesizers and sequencers, all of them set at the service of
electronic music in its most cosmic side. Although there are slow
passages, much of the music has a great dynamic quality. The
melodies have a certain majestic air, and help to evoke, in the
imagination of the listener, voyages to exotic places and
impressive experiences.
JORGE MUNNSHE

VICTOR NUBLA:
"SEVEN HARBOUR SCENES"
Hronir
Victor Nubla, a legendary artist in the panorama of European
musical innovation, shows once again his great imagination to
create surrealistic sonic ambiences that at the same time seem to
be as real as life itself. Blending together disquieting melodies
with sound constructions based on very diverse sources with a
perfect feel, the seven tracks are like captured dreams or
nightmares, magically trapped in an audio format. The entire album
is bathed in an attractive air of mystery, not lacking in
melancholy romanticism, and where there also appear psychedelic
and minimalist touches.
JORGE MUNNSHE

ARTEMIY ARTEMIEV & PHILLIP B. KLINGLER:
"A MOMENT OF INFINITY"
Electroshock Records
Exploring the darkest frontiers of Ambient, these two composers
show us one of the most radical aspects in their respective
styles. Five electronic pieces, featuring an infinity of
disquieting sounds coming and going, constitute sinister
paintings, capable of making us imagine descents into caverns
brimming with unearthly beings, or astral voyages beyond the
limits of space or time.
EDGAR KOGLER

ARTEMIY ARTEMIEV & KARDA ESTRA:
"EQUILIBRIUM"
Electroshock Records
The collaboration between Artemiy Artemiev and Karda Estra has
given, in this album, a very remarkable, interesting result. In a
general climate of mystery, psychedelic elements converge with
others that could be defined as Sepulchral Folk. The balance
between these two powers varies in each theme, just like the
soundscape, yet on the whole this album seems to invite us to
meditate on death, and also on the loved ones that once lived by
our side and now are no longer on the eartly world.
DOMINIQUE CHEVANT

ARTEMIY ARTEMIEV & CHRISTOPHER DE LAURENTI:
"57 MINUTES TO SILENCE"
Electroshock Records
As if inspired by the ghosts of an abandoned mine, this album
permits the listener to look through a series of windows towards
places where our earthly reality never reaches. The treatment of
sound that the artists have given the pieces puts any natural
sound or any sound that could be created with a musical instrument
far away from us. They make spooky whispers paint terrifying
melodies, as if they were transmissions from feral regions of
cosmic devastation or from the dark depths of hell.
DOMINIQUE CHEVANT

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MACROMASSA, EUROPEAN FACTORY OF PSYCHEDELIC INNOVATION. The music
by Macromassa has an unusual personality, very imaginative,
capable of attracting the attention of the listener at the first
chance. In the current panorama of the alternative musics, there
are bands and artists who have something new to say, whereas
others don't. Macromassa no doubt belongs to the first sector.

REVIEWS:
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "ROTOR [C]" At-Mooss Records
PSICODREAMICS: "THE GARDEN"
ABIRD: "SKYLINE 001" Vaso Music
CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE / MATT BORGHI: "THE INTERCEPTED
TRANSMISSIONS" N-Light-N Records
CRAIG PADILLA: "VOSTOK" Spotted Peccary Music
RICHARD BONE: "DISORIENT" Quirkworks Laboratory Discs
OOPHOI: "ATHLIT" Hypnos

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MACROMASSA, EUROPEAN FACTORY OF PSYCHEDELIC INNOVATION

The music by Macromassa has an unusual personality, very
imaginative, capable of attracting the attention of the listener
at the first chance. In the current panorama of the alternative
musics, there are bands and artists who have something new to say,
whereas others don't. Macromassa no doubt belongs to the first
sector.

The band Macromassa was founded in 1976 by Victor Nubla and Juan
Crek. Musicians Albert Gimenez, Anton Ignorant, Zush, Markus A.
Breuss, Pere Boada, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Eric Blanchard, Patri
Martinez, Pep Figueras et al. have collaborated with them in
different stages in the history of the band. About thirty people
have participated in the band during these years. There have been
moments when the team consisted in four, five, eight or three
musicians, to name but a few figures.

Victor Nubla is a composer, videoartist and writer. He has
likewise composed movie soundtracks. Born in 1956, he started his
artistic career in the mid seventies. He has worked in many other
bands and projects: Colectivo de Improvisación Libre, Naif, El
Cuarteto Albano, Nubla & Zulián, Agrupación Instrumental Phonos,
El Consuelo Húngaro, Delirio de Dioses, Secreto Metro, UMYU, UMBN,
Klamm, Clónicos, Zush-Tres, Bel Canto Orquestra, Leo Mariño &
Victor Nubla, and CKT3, among others.

Juan Crek began his activity as a professional musician in the mid
seventies, with a stylistic basis near to psychedelic rock. He has
explored numerous areas in the new musical frontiers. He also has
an interesting solo career. He has collaborated with different
artists, among them Pep Figueras, Sergio Oca, Gustavo Puber del
Burgo, Sophie Borthwick, and Carter Piler.

Looking deeper into how Nubla and Crek developed their musical
vocations and decided to unite their efforts in the common project
of Macromassa, Nubla offers us this explanation:

"I became interested in music through music albums, at age
thirteen. Yet this took place in several stages: One is when I
heard "XXI Century Schizoid Man". Then, when I heard "Lands of
Perfection" by Maquina, I became a fan of theirs following them in
their concerts. By then, I formed a duo with a childhood friend.
We played on Sunday afternoons in his home with the following
instruments: A toy harmonium, mouth harp, and mouth organ.
Thinking about it now, I realise we did all that because I had
been given a cassette recorder/player as a present. We recorded
our experiments. I often did this between ages thirteen and
eighteen, with homemade instruments. One of my friends was Juan
Crek, who used a metal heater as drums. I made experiments with
two tape recorders, a short wave radio and small instruments plus
vocals, in those times. I recorded tapes, I made the covers and
wrote fantastic or surrealist texts that came to accompany the
sounds I recorded. Some time later, Crek and me entered some
environments where Rock was played. We founded a band, "Lamerxis",
with friends who played in "Fuego", a legendary band in our
neighbourhood. We even came to give some live concerts, playing
some of our own things, together with some by Hendrix, Stones...
Therefore, these are more or less the starting points for my
laboratory works as well as my works with a band. There it was
where, what you call my vocation, was already decided. There is a
series of stepping stones, a series of launching events, of this
vocation. They are places and moments you go by at the right
moment. They could be called chances, yet I prefer to call them
minimal readjustements from fate."

"I was self-taught until age twenty-four, when for a year I
studied the clarinet and musical notation a little bit. Specially,
for the clarinet it was obvious indeed that I had been playing on
my own for too long, and I had acquired what is called digitation
vices and all that. So I stopped studying and continued playing
the clarinet. Crek and I went on to a more advanced phase in our
musical activities, where I was singer and keyboardist, and Crek
drums and percussion. In 1976, given the founding of Macromassa, I
bought my first wind instrument: A saxophone. I was very impressed
by David Jackson, Andy MacKay or Ian Underwood, and the use of
wind instruments modified with pedals. The result was impressive
indeed. With this sax connected to a synthesizer module that
Rafael Duyos had customized for me, I recorded "Darlia
Microtónica", the first album by Macromassa. Crek had been in
charge of the audio generator (as well as Duy). In the following
years, I turned to other types of clarinet. The Duy synth was
substituted by modern compact pedals. Also my first Korg MS20 came
to be used together with a sampler. Crek's evolution took him from
the audio generator to the "pedalled" baritone saxo."

In the beginning, the reaction of the people before the music
played by Macromassa was not very comforting...

"September 1976, Magic hall (Barcelona): 300 people at the
beginning of the concert. 2 at its end. This was our first concert
already as Macromassa. Then, the reactions were very varied.
Whereas in 1980 we already had fans, although very few, at the
festival of Aja-Cerdanya together with Secreto Metro, we were
thrown true stones from the border (I never came to find out
whether they were from the French or the Spanish side). Anyhow,
always, from the beginning, there have been loyal friends who have
supported us in many ways, and who helped both to finance our
first albums and to lend us their premises or their instruments to
be able to rehearse. Friends, basically, within the music world,
and specially within the "alternative" circles. Only now we have
friends from no matter which environment and they do not treat us
as if we were mad. Or maybe yes, but from the perspective of their
own madness, which is very comforting. Another constant support
has been that of the specialized press. They have always helped us
to breathe a little."

Albert Giménez, who also was one of the first members of
Macromassa, came to music through a similar path to that of
Nubla's and Crek's:


"I began to get interested in music at age fourteen, more or less,
when I discovered Jimi Hendrix. His music impressed me a lot. Then
I knew what I wanted to do, which was to play the guitar in an
experimental, innovative way. My beginnings as a guitarist were
the typical ones: playing in street bands and school bands during
my teenage days. My activity became more professional when I met
Jordi García, and later Michel Huygen, and we founded Suck
Electronic, a band that at the beginning was called Yeti, until we
changed the name after our first concert. Our music was between
the electronic and the psychedelic. In those times (the mid '70s)
I was very interested in German electronic music, like for
instance Tangerine Dream's and Klaus Schulze's, and I tried to
work more or less within this trend. After a while, I left the
band. Then I met, through Michel Huygen, the musicians of the band
Macromassa, and became a member."

Certainly, the beginnings of Macromassa were rather difficult.
Giménez remembers some of the incidents:

"I recorded "Darlia Microtónica" with them, live, at the Magic
hall; and on the third day the police came and there was a
frightful fight; the music was very radical, provoking, and
experimental".

"I continued to give concerts in Macromassa. I specially remember
a very amusing one at a cultural center. Each one of us would
bring a tape with things he had recorded without the others
knowing what it was. For instance, I brought recordings from a
television set, records played backwards, and other similar
material. Our performance consisted in playing all our tapes
together as, at the same time, we played our instruments. The
audience, mostly consisting of people over sixty years of age, had
come to listen to us without knowing what we used to do, and
became astounded at what we played. Even so, there were those who
were within our wavelength, and one even came to say: "This is
better than Pink Floyd!".

Michel Huygen himself, who some time late was to found Neuronium,
also was a member of Macromassa during a brief period of time.
Victor Nubla tells us about this in further detail:

"Michel Huygen, although almost no one may know this, was the
first person who played in Macromassa, apart from Crek and myself.
As Crek and me were preparing the presentation of Macromassa, in
1976, before we ever had played live, at a place where we
rehearsed, Michel brought his keyboards and we stayed together for
about a week. After this time, as we saw we did not get along well
in the least, we departed one another and continued to be friends,
and later Albert Giménez, who had left Suck Electronic, came to
our band and stayed for almost a year. He even recorded the first
single of "Darlia Microtónica" live with us. And later, Michel and
Albert formed Neuronium soon after. Therefore, the evolution pre-
Neuronium of Michel Huygen and Albert Giménez also passed through
Macromassa. After the creation of Neuronium, we kept in some
contact during the release of our first albums. When Albert left
Neuronium, it was less so, as the one we had come to deal with
more often was him, whereas with Michel there was less contact."

In 1976, Macromassa began to concentrate in their studio an
important amount of electronic equipment, which was a clear
evidence of the innovative path that Nubla's and Crek's project
was to take. Many of the instruments were customized by Rafael
Duyos, the Spanish pioneer in the making of synthesizers. They
even had a legendary Ondes Martenot that they succeeded in
rescuing and restoring. With respect to all this, Nubla states:
"Always the will of Macromassa, and as an extension my own, has
been that of relying on our own, very particular technical
infrastructure, very adapted to what we need, and therefore that
has always been one of the basic interests in our work. About
whether it has been difficult to gather the equipment, well yes,
and even more so taking into account the fact that the entire
first laboratory, not only mine but also that of Macromassa, was
stolen in 1980. So whatever we have now has been purchased from
that year on."

Besides synthesizers, electric guitars, computers and other
frequent instruments in a psychedelic or electronic band, the
members of Macromassa work or have worked with unusual
instruments, and even with diverse objects such as dry flowers
from which they have extracted their peculiar sound when moved
before a microphone.

A very important aspect of Nubla's and Creck's has been that of
pioneering independent music publishers, who impulsed the
avantgarde musical scene in the 1970s and the 1980s in Spain.

"I have always liked to remark the fact that the label UMYU was
eventually born as we needed to release our fist album, "Darlia
Microtónica". The record industry would have never released that
album, not even if it had been signed by Miles Davis. Those who
know "Darlia Microtónica", know that that music in 1976 was like
putting your fingers into a plug. Yet we wanted it released, and
UMYU was the label we invented. Thanks to the fact that we had
this album and the help from some people in particular, we came to
be in contact with the "progressive" and the "alternative" record
channels all over the world, and we could distribute in the United
States, Europe and Japan".

The next album was similarly produced and later Macromassa
contacted other Spanish bands that wanted to self-release their
own albums (namely, Wellcome To Amoriños and Perucho's). Nubla
explains us the result of such contacts: "We lent them our label
and helped them a little with distribution, although financially
speaking it was a failure. Later we were encouraged to produce
other albums like the single of Lol Coxhill or the Domestic
Sampler Umyu, the true starting point for all the avantgarde music
of the eighties in Barcelona. In all that activity, many contacts
with other bands produced new labels where I only collaborated,
let's say, in the initial spirit, or producing some part of some
project, or also musically. Those labels were Filobús, Doméstic,
Klamm Records... That is the pre-history of what later was called
"independent labels". As in UMYU I had already come to be broke
several times, I decided to continue getting broke with a new
label, and created with Antón Ignorant and Peque Lino the
Laboratorio de Música Desconocida (L.M.D., "Unknown Music
Laboratory") with which we released cassettes by Secreto Metro and
mine. Ignorant created his own, excellent label (Grand Mal
Edicions), and I shaped a legal frame to L.M.D., together with
Crek, which opened the stage of tape releases by Comelade,
Macromassa, Bene Gesserit and various compilations. After the
bankruptcy of Rigor, and having for the first time a contract for
a label for Macromassa (Discos Esplendor Geométrico) we decided to
keep L.M.D. going as a many-sided producer (tapes, video,
concerts, radio) and re-release only the materiar directly
concerning us: Macromassa ("El regreso a las botellas de Papá
Nódulus"), Juan Crek ("Meggustaggruñirrr!") and Victor Nubla
("Piedra Nombre"). And I was busy with that, when three small tape
labels in Barcelona decided to join: Las Cintas del Fín,
Duplicadora and Grand Mal, and they invited L.M.D. to participate
in the engaging of a mail distributor. Thus Cuatro Sellos was
born, a label that besides giving way to our own catalogues,
developed interesting projects such as the release of Don King,
concerts by Bourbonese Qualk, Esplendor Geométrico, Don King,
auditions, collaborations with the magazine Fenici, exhibitions of
mail-art, etc. Cuatro Sellos was dissolved when it had
accomplished its aims and its members began new personal stories,
and L.M.D. stopped its own releases, limiting itself to maintain
in the catalogue what I have already mentioned."

One of the latest adventures of Macromassa, and particularly of
Victor Nubla, has been that of becoming the main supporter of the
organization Gracia Territori Sonor. The district of Gracia, in
the city of Barcelona, has traditionally been a confluence point
of artists, and most specially of musicians. The nocturnal
atmosphere of this area, between bohemian and noisy, has been
compared to that of Paris or New York, also with regard to its
avantgarde traits. A series of musicians, supported by
videoartists, graphic designers, writers and other creative minds
from different fields, joined in 1996 to create a collective
having a sufficient capacity of organization to turn this district
into a hot point for the alternative musics. This initiative is
certainly unusual and attractive, since it is aimed at keeping the
district with a personality clearly identified with experimental
music, in the same way as other urban zones all over the world
have a reputation (whether it is deserved or not) as points of a
great activity in other areas, (as for instance Wall Street in the
field of finance). The activities were initiated with the release
of a CD sampler including pieces by experimental musicians
residing in Gracia. One of the most important activities was the
organization of the II European Forum of Experimental Music, which
was held in Barcelona in 1997. Among other activities to be
mentioned of the collective Gracia Territori Sonor, there is the
creation in this area of a web of concert sites, constituted by
bars, concert halls, theatres, art galleries and other facilities
devoted to leisure or culture. The idea has prospered, and there
already is a great deal of "improvised auditoriums" in the area,
where numerous avantgarde artists perform on a regular basis, not
only native ones, but also from other parts of the world.
Different organizations and institutions have collaborated in the
development of this project: The European Union, the Instituto de
Cultura del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona (Institute of Culture of the
Barcelona Town Hall), the Consorcio Catalán de Promoción Exterior
de la Cultura, the Observatori Interarts, the Centre Artesa
Tradicionarius (Tracidionarius Artisan Center), S.O.R.O.L.L.,
Associació de Músics de Jazz de Catalunya (Catalonian Association
of Jazz Musicians), Arco y Flecha, La Línea, Cines Verdi,
Sonostudi, La Ñola, Café del Sol, Mi Bar, Galpón Sur, Galería
Metropolitana de Barcelona, Heliogabal, G3G, Liquid Records, La
Taberna del Pirata, and the collective of artists Civilización, to
name some of them.

Essential works (albums & videos):
DARLIA MICROTONICA
EL CONCIERTO PARA IR EN GLOBO
CIERTAMENTE CUANDO Y PORQUE
EL REGRESO A LAS BOTELLAS DE PAPA NODULUS
GARRAPATON
AL VER TOLOSA
MACROMISSA
ESPEJO RAPIDISIMO QINQEN
GELATERIA LOS PODERES DEL CHICHONER
SEGURAMENTE 04
MACRO TE VE
VIDEO RAPIDISIMO QINQEN
VIEJO LEON (RATTED X)
YO NO SOY EL ORNITOLOGO
BANDA MUNICIPAL DE TOLOSA INTERPRETA MACROMASSA
LOS HECHOS PEREZ
MACROMASSA 7 ZOG LIVE
UM-YU
PUERTA HELIOGABAL

(Jorge Munnshe)

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REVIEWS:

JOSEPH LOIBANT:
"ROTOR [C]"
At-Mooss Records
In this double CD, composer Joseph Loibant shows us his more
experimental aspect. Using the whole potential of laboratory
work, this electronic musician constructs eminently unusual sound
structures. One of the main starting points is the recording of a
night concert in the open air, which he gave on the occasion of a
shooting star shower. Yet this recording does not by any means the
final result present in the album. It merely is the skeleton on
which an entire universe of extrahuman sensations is being built.
Layer by layer, this original structure ends up being hidden under
an unexpected electronic ecosystem, whose fauna has been created
by Loibant by means of an acute imagination for the architectures
of sound plus an intense quest in research and experimentation. As
if it were a history by H.P. Lovecraft trasplanted to an
industrial stage and containing cybernetic monsters instead of
organic ones, the different pieces appear to evoke ghostly scenes
of mystery where everything turns around the icy essence of this
Other Ecosystem, the one which has not been fruit of biologic
evolution, but of technology. Insidious melodies, winking rhytms,
and an impressive mise-en-scene, are perfectly defined on the
cover of the album, also created by Loibant, where steely tones
dominate, and where an absolute protagonism is given to the
Mechanic Element, to the Artificial Piece, to the Industrial
Component, in the same way as a Cell on a luminous background
could represent the concept of Biological Life. Among other
peculiarities of the album, mention must be made of its complex
Stereo panorama, with very marked contrasts, which makes it
advisable not to listen to it with headphones, but rather through
loudspeakers, which is the audio mode Loiband towards which
Loibant has focused the peculiar sonority of his work.
JORGE MUNNSHE

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JOSEPH LOIBANT
Synthesist Joseph Loibant is the founder of the band At-Mooss. He
possess a wide musical trajectory, which includes his activity as
a member of the techno band Programa, together with Carlos Guirao
(ex-member of Neuronium) and Jose M. Ciria. As for his personal
style, Loibant is the most eclectic member of At-Mooss. This is so
due to the many trends he has dealt with during his long career as
a musician, ranging from Jazz to Techno. He is a skilled sound
engineer / designer.
Essential recordings:
-SINE
-PULSE
-RANDOM
-NUCLEUS
-REGRESSION ALPHA
-FIRE COMET
-ROTOR [C]
In At-Mooss:
MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS
MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS-II
MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS-III
CYCLOTRON
In Programa:
SINTESIS DIGITAL
ACROPOLIS
IMPACTO
ASHES

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http://www.at-mooss.com

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PSICODREAMICS:
"THE GARDEN"

In the pieces that are included in this album, the artist gathers
traits from New Instrumental Music, atmospheric Pop and Techno.
Also there are passages or themes that get near to Classical
music, and others near to Space Music. Although several of the
pieces have rather fast rhythms, others are more relaxed in
nature. The music turns out to be dreamy, oniric, at times soft,
at times lively, with some melancholy touches, with warm textures
and crepuscular colors, always bringing to the mind of the
listener the vision of magic universes. A general trait of the
album is the fact that the music happens to be very intense,
vital, as if reflecting strong emotions.
PASCUAL JURADO

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ABIRD:
"SKYLINE 001"
Vaso Music
By using unusual architectures, the artist creates dense pieces,
brimming with colors and shades. He utilizes electronics with a
great imagination and skill, breaking with quite moulds and
exploring new musical continents. The album results into a varied
narrative tapestry, at times hypnotic, calm, while at other times
becoming alive, really lively, in some occassions with darkish,
somewhat nightmarish brush-strokes. This album, in short, shows an
artist in constant progression, whose music possesses an unusual
personality, capable of attracting the attention of the listener
at once.
PASCUAL JURADO

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CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE / MATT BORGHI:
"THE INTERCEPTED TRANSMISSIONS"
N-Light-N Records
This is an album that could be labelled within the genre of Space
Music with Ambient touches, ethereal melodies, at times
disquieting, and whose special sound effects may remind us of a
space voyage to unknown regions of a strange universe, be it a
real or an imaginary one.
EDGAR KOGLER

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

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005RJB8/thesciencebookbo

CRAIG PADILLA:
"VOSTOK"
Spotted Peccary Music
In this album, Craig Padilla has sculpted music inspired by the
mysterious depths of the lake Vostok, hidden beneath Antarctica.
The music flows, evolving, never losing its intrinsic beauty,
deep, hypnotic, with electronic undercurrents that lead to
atmospheres full of a soft energy, at times with dark brushes.
EDGAR KOGLER

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link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000062Y9B/thesciencebookbo

RICHARD BONE:
"DISORIENT"
Quirkworks Laboratory Discs
In this album, the artist presents a wide range of sounds from all
over the world, where pop traits are intertwined with World Music
melodies in a very successful way. They are pieces of a complex
conception, yet at the same time they are easy to listen to. There
are themes which could be defined as a fusion of New Instrumental
Music and Jazz, with elements typical of Ambient A certain
nostalgic air is present in some melodic passages.
MARCELLA CIRIGNOLA

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OOPHOI:
"ATHLIT"
Hypnos
Dark atmospheres, crepuscular metallic textures and disquieting
whispers compose a landscape of eerie colors. Much of the music is
icy, ghostly, static. The synthesizers shape a dense tapestry that
immerse the listener within a magical world where time ceases to
exist.
EDGAR KOGLER

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CONTENTS:

NEWS

INTERVIEW WITH MAX CORBACHO. Max Corbacho started a solo career in
the Ambient scene of the nineties. His amazing music soon
attracted a remarkable attention. His albums are full of daring
ideas.

REVIEWS:
NEURONIUM: "AZIZI" Neuronium Records
AMIR BAGHIRI: "DREAMRESOURCES" Neuronium Records
SUZANNE CIANI: "PIANISSIMO III" Seventh Wave / Neuronium Records
SUZANNE CIANI: "TURNING" Seventh Wave / Neuronium Records
RUDY ADRIAN: "STARFIELDS (SEQUENCER SKETCHES VOL.3)" Groove
NAVIGATOR: "OCEANIC EMPIRE" Groove

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NEWS

"Facta", the new album by Dom F. Scab, will be released on the
label Groove Unlimited (Netherlands)

After a period of inactivity, AD Music is back and preparing new
releases. The first is "Walking With Ghosts" by David Wright. You
can hear hear extracts from "Walking With Ghosts" at:
http://www.codeindigo.co.uk/davidwright/music/ghosts.shtml

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INTERVIEW WITH MAX CORBACHO

Max Corbacho started a solo career in the Ambient scene of the
nineties. His amazing music soon attracted a remarkable attention.
His albums are full of daring ideas.

>>> How and when did your interest in music and your vocation as a
composer begin?

I began to get interested in music since I was very young, but it
was listening to old records by bands from the 1970's when I felt
the need to create. On the whole, all the artists in that era
fascinated me, from the legendaryPink Floyd to the most metallic
Led Zeppelyn of their first years. I started in Rock bands as a
guitarist... till in the early 1990's I abandoned everything so as
to create electronic music.

>>> Which is the process you usually follow to create a musical
piece?

I don't have a definite "method", yet I certainly have experienced
an evolution. Nowadays I use the sequencer less than I used to, I
intend my themes to become freer with respect to their rhythm and
tempo. Right now I divide my time into creating acoustic loops
from outdoor recordings and in the studio, and the creation of
rhythmic computer-generated grooves, and I then coverall that with
layers of synthesizers and it receives the final treatment.

>>> Do you consider yourself to be linked to a given musical label
in particular? Do you feel or have you ever felt influenced by
other musicians in your artistic task?

Certainly, yet I rather feel I am related to a current, rather
than to a given label. Obviously, the influence of such musicians
as Vidna Obmana, Robert Rich or Steve Roach is undeniable in my
work, and therefore I feel quite close to all the American ambient
space scenery,as well as its European representation with such
people as Alio Die, Mattias Grassow, Amir Baghiri, Temps Perdu,
etc.

>>> Which are your sources for inspiration when composing?

Basically my travels, outings and excursions to places where I
feel myself far from civilization: I was born and spent the early
years of my childhood in a small "cortijo", a typical country
household, in the province of Badajoz, and later I spent every
summer there during the following years. Somehow my subconscious
always wants to return to that place, and I continuously look for
places far away from noise to spend my free time, to photograph
them and somehow capture thrir atmosphere.

>>> Can you comment on what role Umberto Eco's literature played
in your album "Far Beyond The Immobile Point"? What did you want
to express in this album?

It was the first chapter what wholly captivated me. The poetic
vision of the universe Eco describes,
and the vision of the pendulum the main character has, as he
imagines how strings hold it stretching into infinity, up to a
remote place the imagines as the "immobile point", the place where
it is anchored, and around which the entire universe revolves,
inspired me profoundly..

>>> What led you to compose "The Resonant Memory of Earth"? Did
you propose to create a work related to Earth from the beginning?

Yes, in "The Resonant....." I finish some paths I started in
"Vestiges", and plan it as an analysis of my feelings, my
sensations at the moment of finding myself in some lost place in
the midsrt of nature. Actually, it is a question I meditate on,
wondering why many people like myself pick this call, poetically
referred to as "the resonating memory of Earth·, whereas others
never have this need
in all of their lives. I also need to contribute somehow to making
many people aware as they do not realise the harm they do to the
natural environment.

>>> Tell us about your relationship with Bruno Sanfilippo. Are you
planning to release an album together? What do you think of his
musical style?

Bruno and I are preparing a CD together, that's right. We have
connected very well at a personal level, and we have just had a
vacation together with our respective wives in the south of Spain.
We have the project of giving concerts jointly in the near future
and it even is possible that we create our own label. With respect
to his musical style, I believe there are several surprises in
store for his fans, and some of the traits that were suggested in
"Suite Patagonia", such as the taste for ambiences and atmospheric
music, are going to get a thoroughly important role in his future
works

>>> Can you comment something about the projects you are working
on and your plans for the immediate future?

Yes, basically, I am currently working on two new projects , one
being on a "techno-tribal" wave, based on rhythms generated via
computer, and another maybe somewhat darker, without percussion
and in a way following in the wake of "Far Beyond The Immobile
Point". Also, there is my collaboration with Bruno Sanfilippo, as
well as another two projects, one with Amir Baghiri and the other
with Ran Kirlian, a young musician from Valencia who appears to be
very promising indeed, having several surprises in store, in the
near future.

(Interview conducted by Edgar Kogler)

Max Corbacho - Official web:

http://perso.wanadoo.es/maxc/

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REVIEWS:

NEURONIUM:
"AZIZI"
Neuronium Records
Michel Huygen (Neuronium) shows once again his mastery with the
synthesizers. His music is, as usual, compelling, experimental at
times, avantgarde, true to his roots, full of ethereal ambiences,
and all this shows his very personal style in each piece. This
work is an expression of his experience of life, a self-portrait.
For example, the piece "Audrey in Africa" was composed by Michel
in memory of his friend the famous actress Audrey Hepburn. Quite a
number of the distinct aspects in Michel Huygen's style appear in
this album: from the Space airs, to Synth-Pop, New Instrumental
Music, and even the most cosmic side of Progressive Rock. This is
a very intense album, where it is obvious that Huygen has immersed
his five senses. The nine pieces have a symphonic melodic
character, with romantic parts and other mysterious ones. "Azizi"
is a work that emphasizes the capability of electronic music to
deeply penetrate the human soul, even more deeply than many
acoustic, conventional ways of making music. The forces of nature,
the sense of home, and the spiritual questions, take us to a
voyage through soundscapes as varied as life itself. The author
reflects his own experiences, providing each track with an
intimate air, at times relaxing, emotional, blissful, nostalgic
and even mysterious.
JORGE MUNNSHE

Michel Huygen has granted to Amazing Sounds the privilege of
exclusively selling via internet the CDROM "HYPNOTICA". More info
here:

http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0082.html

NEURONIUM / MICHEL HUYGEN
Michel Huygen is a Spanish synthesist of Belgian origin who began
his musical career by the early seventies, as a member of several
bands of psychedelic rock. In 1976, he founded the band Neuronium,
together with Carlos Guirao, Albert Giménez and other musicians
who soon after abandoned the band. Giménez left the band after
recording Vuelo Químico (1978), and Guirao also left after
Chromium Echoes (1982). Since then, Huygen is the only member of
Neuronium, accompanied by various musicians occasionally but
composing all the music himself. Some of his albums are signed as
Neuronium, and others with his own name. Huygen has composed movie
soundtracks, has designed synthesizer sounds, and has produced
some other musicians.
Essential recordings:
NEURONIUM:
-QUASAR 2C361
-VUELO QUIMICO
-DIGITAL DREAM
-THE VISITOR
-CHROMIUM ECHOES
-INVISIBLE VIEWS
-HERITAGE
-ALMA
-SUPRANATURAL
-FROM MADRID TO HEAVEN
-NUMERICA
-OLIM
-SYBARIS
-EXTRISIMO
-ONIRIA
-IN LONDON (& Vangelis)
-ALMA (WITH CD-ROM TRACK)
-A SEPARATE AFFAIR (& Vangelis)
-PSYKYA
-ALIENIKON
-HYDRO
-HYPNOTICA (CDROM)
-IN LONDON (Platinum Edition) (& Vangelis)
MICHEL HUYGEN:
-ABSENCE OF REALITY
-CAPTURING HOLOGRAMS
-BARCELONA 1992
-ELIXIR
-INTIMO
-EN BUSCA DEL MISTERIO
-INFINITO
-MUSICA PARA LA BUENA MESA
-ASTRALIA (& Fernando Jiménez del Oso)
-INTIMO (THE DEFINITIVE EDITION)
-SONAR
-ULTRACOSMOS
-DROIT AU COEUR
-PLACEBO

Articles about Michel Huygen / Neuronium in Amazing Sounds:

-THE SONIC ASTRAL VOYAGE OF MICHEL HUYGEN & JIMENEZ DEL OSO
http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0001.html

-NEURONIUM LAUNCHES "PSYKYA"
http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0025.html

-THE AQUATIC ADVENTURE OF NEURONIUM. MICHEL HUYGEN PRESENTS
"HYDRO"
http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0071.html

-HYPNOTICA, THE AUDIOVISUAL WORLD OF NEURONIUM
http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0082.html

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have to use these links:

Neuronium:
http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=neuronium

Michel Huygen:
http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=michel+huygen

AMIR BAGHIRI:
"DREAMRESOURCES"
Neuronium Records
This CD contains nine themes of a slow development. Nine themes
that take us into the mysteries of uncountable, fantastic legends.
The music is cosmic, hypnotic, dark, with a structure ranging from
Ambient to mystic ritual music. Although the character of the
pieces is basically electronic, there also are some acoustic
instruments from ancient cultures. Amir Baghiri achieves in his
music a very effective, attractive and even meditative atmosphere.
No doubt, this is a fascinating album, highly reccommended to
those who seek something more on the line of current electronic
ambient.
EDGAR KOGLER

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

http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=amir+baghiri

SUZANNE CIANI:
"PIANISSIMO III"
Seventh Wave / Neuronium Records
Suzanne Ciani was a pioneer of electronic music in the early '70s.
Even if she has always been interested in exploring the new
technologies in music, she has never left out his classical
influences. "Pianissimo III" is her third album released within
the series "Pianissimo". In this album we find 15 compositions
where the piano is the star -and solo- instrument. The music
portrays an intimacy, a quality of deep feeling that reaches a
wide audience and creates an atmosphere of relaxation, calm, and
inner peace.
HECTOR JORDAN

SUZANNE CIANI:
"TURNING"
Seventh Wave / Neuronium Records
"Turning" is a beautiful romantic album by Suzanne Ciani, based on
the piano and synthesizers. It consists of 12 compositions, whose
stylistic range fluctuates between New Instrumental Music and
classical symphonism. All of them have been composed by Suzanne,
except for "Bird and Fish", composed by Chyi-Yu. Suzanne, who in
this album plays piano and synthesizers, is accompanied by Chyi-Yu
(vocals on "Turning"), Paul McCandless (oboe, English horn),
Michael Manring (bass), Teja Bell (guitar), Steven Kindler
(violin), Joseph Hebert (cello), Roberto (guitar), Matt Eackle
(flute), John Hernandez (V-Drum System), and Joe Anderson (guitar)
The result cannot be more convincing: a work of an extreme
sensitivity and introspection.
HECTOR JORDAN

SUZANNE CIANI
The American composer Suzanne Ciani was a pioneer of electronic
music in the early '70s. For years, she explored the possibilities
that the new technologies provided, and she created music for
numerous TV advertisements and other productions. In 1979 Seven
Waves was released, the first independent album in her stage as a
solo artist. By the mid '80s, she achieved international success
with her records. Since the late '80s, she has turned to the
acoustic instruments rather than the electronic ones, and has
showed that she is a very talented pianist.
Essential recordings:
-VOICES OF PACKAGED SOULS (& Harold Paris)
-SEVEN WAVES
-THE VELOCITY OF LOVE
-NEVERLAND
-HISTORY OF MY HEART
-PIANISSIMO
-HOTEL LUNA
-THE PRIVATE MUSIC OF SUZANNE CIANI
-DREAM SUITE
-DREAM SUITE (MULTIMEDIA ENHANCED)
-PIANISSIMO II
-LIVE!

Suzanne Ciani was featured in Amazing Sounds:

-SUZANNE CIANI: DREAMY WAVES OF MUSIC

http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0011.html

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

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/33684/thesciencebookbo

RUDY ADRIAN:
"STARFIELDS (SEQUENCER SKETCHES VOL.3)"
Groove
The 65 minutes of music of this album by Rudy Adrian are an
imaginative cosmic voyage. The artist provides us with a
marvellous collection of themes that can be framed within a Space
Sequencer style with some Symphonic-Classical elements. Though
there are slow parts, much of the music has a lively rhythm. The
melodies are usually warm, lively, epic, majestic. The music
softly flows onwards, floating towards otherwordly soundscapes, at
times with melancholy touches, at times optimistic, always
delicately expressive, communicating a wide range of feelings and
emotions.
JORGE MUNNSHE

You can find more information about Groove label here:

http://www.groove.nl/

NAVIGATOR:
"OCEANIC EMPIRE"
Groove
A wonderful work, this CD by Navigator. This is a powerful album,
where the artists (Kent Eskildsen, Jens Peschke and Tony Andersen)
contribute their musical talent to achieve a fresh, emotive sonic
journey. The music, of a Space style, is based on the use of
powerful sequencer rhythms and spectacular orchestrations with
synthesizers. The melodies usually are warm, lively, in an
atmosphere typical of a soundtrack for an adventure movie. There
are dark, mysterious passages. Others turn out to be epic,
majestic.
EDGAR KOGLER

You can find more information about Groove label here:

http://www.groove.nl/

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CONTENTS:

NEWS

REVIEWS:
MICHEL HUYGEN: "PLACEBO" Neuronium Records
NEURONIUM & VANGELIS "IN LONDON (PLATINUM EDITION)" Neuronium
Records
CONSTANCE DEMBY: "SANCTUM SANCTUORUM" Neuronium Records
CONSTANCE DEMBY: "SET FREE" Neuronium Records
PASCAL LANGUIRAND: "RENAISSANCE" Neuronium Records
CONSTANCE DEMBY / NEURONIUM / JONN SERRIE / PASCAL LANGUIRAND /
MICHEL HUYGEN / SANTI PICO: "THE FUTURE OF MUSIC... NOW. VOL. 1"
Neuronium Records
SANTI PICO: "WINGS OF A BIRD" Neuronium Records
FRANK VAN BOGAERT: "HUMAN" Groove Music
MAX CORBACHO: "FAR BEYOND THE IMMOBILE POINT" Mp3.com
MAX CORBACHO: "THE RESONANT MEMORY OF EARTH" SpaceForMusic.com
Records
BJORN LYNNE: "COLONY"
FUZZHEAD: "FUZZHEAD IS LOVE" Without Fear Recordings
FUZZHEAD: "TECHNICOLOR SOUL" Without Fear Recordings
FUZZHEAD: "WHAT'S GOIN' ON?" Without Fear Recordings
COLETTE & PHIL: "LISTEN TO THE CHILDREN" Mysterysong Productions
EDWARD ARTEMIEV: "THREE ODES" Electroshock Records
ARTEMIY ARTEMIEV & PETER FROHMADER: "TRANSFIGURATION" Electroshock
Records
DER SPYRA: "ELEVATOR TO HEAVEN" Manikin Records
SERGE BLENNER: "VIRTUALIS" MdeC Editions
SARA AYERS: "INTERIORS" Dark Wood Recordings
TALES: "THE SESKIAN WARS" Somewhere in time Records
BRANNAN LANE: "TO EARTH AND BACK" SpaceFor Music.com Records
JAMES JOHNSON and ROBERT SCOTT THOMPSON: "FORGOTTEN PLACES" Zero
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NEWS

On September 21, Electronic Music Festival E-LIVE 2002 will be
held in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Performances by Neuronium (Michel
Huygen) (with Pascal Languirand), Ron Boots, Kees Aerts, Harold
and Eric van der Heijden, Frank van Bogaert and Amir Baghiri.

New releases on Neuronium Records (September 2002) "Pianissimo
III" (with previously unreleased tracks) by Suzanne Ciani.
"Dreamresources" by Amir Baghiri. "Azizi" by Neuronium. "Wings of
a Bird" by Santi Pico. "Lumia Nights" by Jonn Serrie. "Set Free"
(with a previously unreleased track) by Constance Demby.

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REVIEWS:

MICHEL HUYGEN:
"PLACEBO"
Neuronium Records
The new album by Michel Huygen, "Placebo", is a daring release.
Showing that the artist is capable of giving true surprises, in
this occasion he breaks with transcendental space adventures, and
offers us a work dominated by rythm, far from cosmic lanes, yet
radically electronic. A music brimming with dynamism, it injects
vitality into the listener. Huygen links Classical Techno with
Trance, Psychedelic  Rock and even some areas of avantgarde Jazz.
The palette of electrified,  metalized sounds, contributes to
create the cybernetic ambience towards which the cover of the
album and the title of the first piece ("CyberEnergy") already
hint. The structure of the CD is rythmic, sustaining the melodies
in itself. Atmospheric percussion and powerful bass motives
increase the strength of the rythm The sound effects that come and
go throughout the entire album are not mere adornments, but rather
constitute an integral part of rythm and melody. Furthermore, some
of them appear to  wink at the electronic devices more common in
our cities.
JORGE MUNNSHE

NEURONIUM & VANGELIS
"IN LONDON (PLATINUM EDITION)"
Neuronium Records
In 1981, Neuronium and Vangelis produced one of the clearest
samples of what can be done with synthesizers in the field of
electronic, Space Music. Although the original recording was done
in an analogic system, in the legendary Vangelis' Nemo studio, in
London, Huygen's technical ability has allowed for a complete
remastering and its presentation with improved mixes. The main
theme has been treated in three different versions ("In London",
"In London (After hours)" and "In London (radio edit)", of a
decreasing duration. Listening to the album we return to the
Vangelis / Neuronium sound of the late seventies, early eighties,
in which analogic sound and symphonic environments dominate over
everything else. Yet this CD is not specifically aimed at
nostalgic listeners or collectors: True electronic music in its
most cosmic side, shines here in all its glory. This re-release is
partly due to the pressure of the fans of both musicians, as many
of them could not get a copy of the album when it was first
released.
MANUEL MONTES

NEURONIUM / MICHEL HUYGEN
Michel Huygen is a Spanish synthesist of Belgian origin who began
his musical career by the early seventies, as a member of several
bands of psychedelic rock. In 1976, he founded the band Neuronium,
together with Carlos Guirao, Albert Giménez and other musicians
who soon after abandoned the band. Giménez left the band after
recording Vuelo Químico (1978), and Guirao also left after
Chromium Echoes (1982). Since then, Huygen is the only member of
Neuronium, accompanied by various musicians occasionally but
composing all the music himself. Some of his albums are signed as
Neuronium, and others with his own name. Huygen has composed movie
soundtracks, has designed synthesizer sounds, and has produced
some other musicians.
Essential recordings:
NEURONIUM:
-QUASAR 2C361
-VUELO QUIMICO
-DIGITAL DREAM
-THE VISITOR
-CHROMIUM ECHOES
-INVISIBLE VIEWS
-HERITAGE
-ALMA
-SUPRANATURAL
-FROM MADRID TO HEAVEN
-NUMERICA
-OLIM
-SYBARIS
-EXTRISIMO
-ONIRIA
-IN LONDON (& Vangelis)
-ALMA (WITH CD-ROM TRACK)
-A SEPARATE AFFAIR (& Vangelis)
-PSYKYA
-ALIENIKON
-HYDRO
-HYPNOTICA (CDROM)
-IN LONDON (Platinum Edition) (& Vangelis)
MICHEL HUYGEN:
-ABSENCE OF REALITY
-CAPTURING HOLOGRAMS
-BARCELONA 1992
-ELIXIR
-INTIMO
-EN BUSCA DEL MISTERIO
-INFINITO
-MUSICA PARA LA BUENA MESA
-ASTRALIA (& Fernando Jiménez del Oso)
-INTIMO (THE DEFINITIVE EDITION)
-SONAR
-ULTRACOSMOS
-DROIT AU COEUR
-PLACEBO

You can find more information here, in Amazing Sounds, at:

-THE SONIC ASTRAL VOYAGE OF MICHEL HUYGEN & JIMENEZ DEL OSO
http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0001.html

-NEURONIUM LAUNCHES "PSYKYA"
http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0025.html

-THE AQUATIC ADVENTURE OF NEURONIUM. MICHEL HUYGEN PRESENTS
"HYDRO"
http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0071.html

-HYPNOTICA, THE AUDIOVISUAL WORLD OF NEURONIUM
http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0082.html

Michel Huygen has granted to Amazing Sounds the privilege of
exclusively selling via internet the CDROM "HYPNOTICA". More info
here:
http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0082.html

If you wish to purchase any recordings by this artist you only
have to use this link (Neuronium):
http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=neuronium

or this link (Michel Huygen):
http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=michel+huygen

VANGELIS
The Greek composer Evangelos (Vangelis) Papathanassiou, born in
1943, began his career as a rock musician in the sixties,
achieving a great success in his country, and later all over the
world with his band Aphrodite's Child. In the early 1970s, he
became a pioneer of electronic music, starting then his solo
career. An author of several movie soundtracks, he achieved his
greatest success in this field in 1982 when he was awarded the
Oscar to the best soundtrack for Chariots of Fire. He has
collaborated with several musicians, among them Jon Anderson,
Neuronium and Demis Roussos.
Essential recordings:
-SEX POWER
-FAINS QUE TON REVE SOIT PLUS LONG QUE LA NUIT
-L'APOCALYPSE DES ANIMAUX
-EARTH
-HEAVEN AND HELL
-ALBEDO 0:39
-LA FETE SAUVAGE
-IGNACIO
-SPIRAL
-BEAUBOURG
-CHINA
-OPERA SAUVAGE
-SEE YOU LATER
-CHARIOTS OF FIRE
-ANTARCTICA
-SOIL FESTIVITIES
-INVISIBLE CONNECTIONS
-MASK
-DIRECT
-THEMES
-THE CITY
-1492 CONQUEST OF PARADISE
-VOICES
-PORTRAITS
-OCEANIC
-MYTHODEA
& Neuronium:
-IN LONDON
-A SEPARATE AFFAIR
-IN LONDON (Platinum Edition)
& Jon Anderson:
-SHORT STORIES
-FRIENDS OF MR. CAIRO
-PRIVATE COLLECTION
-PAGE OF LIFE
& Irene Papas:
-ODES
-RAPSODIES
In Aphrodite's Child:
-END OF THE WORLD
-IT'S FIVE O'CLOCK
-666 - THE APOCALYPSE OF JOHN

If you wish to purchase any recordings by this artist you only
have to use this link:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/42526/thesciencebookbo

CONSTANCE DEMBY:
"SANCTUM SANCTUORUM"
Neuronium Records
"Sanctum Sanctuorum" is the first album by Constance Demby in five
years since her "Aeterna" in 1997. This is a long-time matured
work, brimming with mysticism and emotion, and surely is a
reflection of the very life of the composer in these five years.
Continuing with the same path of grand, powerful orchestrations,
as in her previous releases, although with a perhaps more
notorious use of samplers, this release will no doubt appeal the
followers of Space Music.
JORGE MUNNSHE

CONSTANCE DEMBY:
"SET FREE"
Neuronium Records
This re-release of "Set Free", with a new 32-bits  re-
masterization by Michel Huygen, and a previously unreleased theme,
constitutes for the followers of the new musics that back then had
no chance to get the CD, a wonderful opportunity to get what, in
the opinion of many, is a masterpiece of space music in its most
melodic, symphonic side. Melodies that range from sensuality to
epic, orchestrations that blend Classicism with ethnic influences,
and musical structures of a great diversity are the basis for a
work that, far from being an album only for the initiated, can
appeal to a very diverse audience.
JORGE MUNNSHE

CONSTANCE DEMBY
Constance Demby initiated her musical activities in the sixties.
She belonged to the band Central Maine Power and Light Company. In
the seventies she began her solo career as a composer of
innovative music. Her first album,"Skies above Skies", was
released in 1978.
Essential recordings:
-SKIES ABOVE SKIES
-SUNBORNE
-SACRED SPACE MUSIC
-LIVE AT ALARON
-NOVUS MAGNIFICAT
-LIGHT OF THIS WORLD
-SET FREE
-AETERNA
-SANCTUM SANCTUORUM

You can find more information here, in Amazing Sounds, at:
-CONSTANCE DEMBY: WHEN CLASSICISM BECOMES VISUAL MUSIC
http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0012.html

If you wish to purchase any recordings by this artist you only
have to use this link:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/49136/thesciencebookbo

PASCAL LANGUIRAND:
"RENAISSANCE"
Neuronium Records
The new album by Pascal Languirand, the well-known author of
"Living on Video" (Trans-X) is called "Renaissance". This is a
work of electronic music widely varied and wealthy, full of
surprises, where the artist has been working for a year and a
half. Some tracks are instrumental. Others include his voice,
modulated with unusual vocal techniques. With great mastery, he
weaves a baroque tapestry with elements of Synth-Pop, Space Music,
and even with a clear medieval air. In actual fact, there are
passages that are like open windows to the Middle Ages. Pascal
sings in Latin, Medieval French and present-day French. The album
also includes a new version, in French, of the theme "Solo
pensando en ti", whose music was originally composed by Michel
Huygen.
JORGE MUNNSHE

CONSTANCE DEMBY / NEURONIUM / JONN SERRIE / PASCAL LANGUIRAND /
MICHEL HUYGEN / SANTI PICO:
"THE FUTURE OF MUSIC... NOW. VOL. 1"
Neuronium Records
With a suggestive title that describes the contents of the CD as
the future of music, Neuronium Records presents the first
compilation of the label, with pieces by the five first artists
here released. The selection has been done by Michel Huygen, who
has also taken care of re-mastering. The contents of the sampler
is as follows: Constance Demby: "Hallelujah", "Mother of the
World", "Waltz of Joy". Michel Huygen / Neuronium: "Hyperhypnose",
"Numerica", "Tenderness", "Homo Erectus". Jonn Serrie: "And the
stars go with you", "Deep mystery". Pascal Languirand: "Just a
sound in the night", "Lui Donner Mon Ame", "Mascaras". Santi Pico:
"Wings of a bird", "Miskatonic II (Part 1)" The listener will find
a great variety of personal styles, with a common trait: ideal
music to let imagination fly free.
JORGE MUNNSHE

SANTI PICO:
"WINGS OF A BIRD"
Neuronium Records
Santi Pico, a magnificient guitarist known both for his solo work
and his collaboration with Neuronium as a musician, proves in this
album the possibilities of guitar to evoke warm emotions. Highly
praised when first released  (under the name of "Miskatonic II",
that is also the title of one of the pieces), this re-release will
allow the music by Pico to approach new audiences, while at the
same time meaning for some of his followers the opportunity they
were expecting to get this album. Six are the tracks that
constitute the CD. All of them have been composed by him, except
for "Monica", composed together with Cristina Poch. Manel Rabinad
plays the flute in another theme, In the album, Santi Pico fuses
New Instrumental Music with elements typical of Rock ballads, and
certain touches of Jazz with a Latin flavor. The result is a
precious collection of melodies with a romantic air, sometimes
happy, sometimes melancholy, not lacking in some occasions a
suggestive aura of mystery.
JORGE MUNNSHE

FRANK VAN BOGAERT:
"HUMAN"
Groove Music
Like Frank himself tells us in the leaflet accompanying his new
album, in "Human" he has bet for improvisation rather more than in
his previous works. The result of having allowed himself to follow
the inspiration of the moment has been fully fruitful. On the one
hand, we have the basic style of his previous albums, where he
portrays a musical landscape of multiple influences. On the other
hand, we find a warmth and spontainety that remind us of those
typical in a live performance. Between melodic Synth Pop and the
New Instrumental Music, all the CD has an air mainly blissful,
optimistic, full of positive energy.
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

Frank Van Bogaert. Official web:
http://www.frankvanbogaert.com/

MAX CORBACHO:
"FAR BEYOND THE IMMOBILE POINT"
Mp3.com
>From the darkness of remote intergalactic space to the brigtness
of stars, Corbacho's music has an energy that gives the listener
the feeling of belonging into an eternal, endless pulse of an
ever-expanding universe, leading our imagination through the
immensity of the cosmos in a tireless quest in the realms of
wonder. No doubt this CD will appeal to the fans of Max Corbacho's
music as well as the lovers of Ambient and Space Music in general.
HECTOR JORDAN

MAX CORBACHO:
"THE RESONANT MEMORY OF EARTH"
SpaceForMusic.com Records
As if it were a transmutation of the natural identity of the Earth
in sounds and melodies, Max Corbacho has created an inspired
earthly symphony in an Ambient key.  Utilizing synthesizers to
create dense atmospheres, he sculpts landscapes ranging from the
crystaline to the rocky, likewise re-creating the thick vegetation
of the rain forests or the peaceful flow of the clouds in the sky.
Divided into four parts, this work takes us to a voyage throughout
the most impressive scenarios of the planet we live in. "The
resonant memory of Earth" represents a good sample of the style of
this synthesist, ideal for those who don't know him yet, as well
as highly reccommended for his usual followers.
EDGAR KOGLER

Max Corbacho. Official website:
http://perso.wanadoo.es/maxc/

BJORN LYNNE:
"COLONY"
With the epic force of a cosmic odissey, guitarist Bjorn Lynne re-
creates the future of human exploration of space and the
establishment of colonies in other planets, under the prisma of
his personal style. Starting from the fusion between Space Rock
and Synth Pop, he weaves a solid tapestry of themes where we can
also find elements typical of Trance,  Space Sequencer Music, and
New Instrumental Music. As in his previous works, Lynne not only
shows his great talent as a composer but also his mastery in
arrangements and performance. All the tracks have a great strength
that impresses the listener from the first moment
EDGAR KOGLER

BJORN LYNNE
Bjorn Lynne is originally from Norway, where he spent his
childhood and youth. In 1995 his music brought him to England,
where he has now settled down in the Yorkshire countryside,
working in his own sound studio, called Studio17. After two self-
published CD albums, he signed with Centaur Discs in 1995, and
released Dreamstate. His earlier albums were mostly electronic and
made with synthesizers. On the later albums, he uses more guitars
(acoustic and electric), basses and other acoustic instruments.
Bjorn's music has been compared to Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream,
Genesis, Pink Floyd and others.
Essential recordings:
-Hobbits & Spaceships (1992 - self published)
-Montage (1994 - self published)
-Dreamstate (1995 - Centaur Discs CENCD009)
-Witchwood (1996 - Mellow Records MMP288)
-The Void (1997 - Cyclops/GFT CYCL051)
-Wizard of the Winds
-Wolves of the Gods
-Revive
-Colony

More information and Bjorn Lynne albums are available (Secure
Server) at the Bjorn Lynne official website:
http://www.lynnemusic.com/

FUZZHEAD:
"FUZZHEAD IS LOVE"
Without Fear Recordings
Preceded by the great expectation of numerous followers of the
alternative musics that got to know this music or have heard about
it, the release of this impressive album by Fuzzhead is going to
satisfy the interest generated and will no doubt surpass all
expectations. Fuzzhead, the band created around Bill Weita, has
been compared, in more than one sense, to some of the most
legendary bands of musical avantgarde, like for instance, Can. In
"Fuzzhead is Love", we find a daring quest through psychedelic
regions hardly ever or even never explored before, from a
perspective near to Funk, with elements from other currents that
sound perfectly integrated in the general outline of the album.
Precisely this is one of the best assets of the work: its
coherence. Nothing to do with aimless improvisations full of
gratuitous noisiness, but rather a firm and clear  highway that
makes us travel through strange, surrealist places, yet absolutely
real ones.
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

FUZZHEAD:
"TECHNICOLOR SOUL"
Without Fear Recordings
Fuzzhead, the experimental rock band created by Bill Weita, marks
a before and and after in the history of avantgarde Pop. Now, his
album "Technicolor Soul", digitally re-mastered by the leader of
the band, is available in the alternative label Without Fear
Recordings. With a great deal of ease and imagination, the themes
break with casings, bypass barriers among styles and board
psychedelic worlds from the realm of Funk and experimental Pop.
Themes like for instance "Take me to the River" flow with
unsuspected freshnes through paths of Psychedelia that have been
seldom tread. An important part of the merit of the album is the
fact that it succeeds in reaching these peaks or abysses without
falling into arid experimentation that disturbs musical
perception. Neither exaggerated stridencies, nor shapeless
noisism, only a well planned path towards solitary, marginal
corners of Rock.
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

FUZZHEAD:
"WHAT'S GOIN' ON?"
Without Fear Recordings
When Bill Weita created Fuzzhead, the band destined to shape his
most visionary personal projects, he opened a door that surely,
without him, would have continued to be closed for a long time.
With an unusual lucidity, he started to paint with live colors a
collection of sound chimeras transformed into a psychedelic
reality by means of completely unusual musical architectures. In
"What's goin' on?" we find a perfect practical demonstration of
these approaches. To board Psychedelia from perspectives not
exclusively based on Rock, and besides, to do this with ease, with
spontainety, requires a creative fluency that is not available to
everybody. The wonderful result thus reached in this, one of the
most risky works of Fuzzhead, throws us into a surrealism as solid
as rock and as clear as the most defined of musical genres.Fleeing
from fruitless experimentation and from uncontrolled noisiness,
the music surprises us per se.
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

Without Fear Recordings (Official website):
http://www.purpleman.com/withoutfear/

COLETTE & PHIL:
"LISTEN TO THE CHILDREN"
Mysterysong Productions
With a remarkable ease and freshness, the duo Colette & Phil give
us a wonderful CD single with their most recent three
compositions. Without breaking with the basic lines of their
charismatic style, they do approach music from a more dynamic,
agile perspective, which can be labeled within the avantgarde Pop,
with connections towards New Instrumental Music. "Listen to the
Children (Indigo Mix)" perfectly embodies this perspective, A
theme with a great strength, it is an emotive rock ballad, with an
avantgarde flavor. "Are You the Stranger?" combines the suggestive
voice of Colette with a melody that ranges from the warm to the
mysterious, and a powerful rhythm, very successful, rich in
ethereal sonorities. "Time Traveler"  presents us with the side of
the duo most nearest to the structures typical of New Instrumental
Music. This is a piece with a great strength, with a
transcendental, nostalgic air, basically instrumental, that
immediately captures the attention of the listener.
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

Colette & Phil. Official website:
http://www.ancient-ancestors.com/

EDWARD ARTEMIEV:
"THREE ODES"
Electroshock Records
In "Three Odes" we can listen to the master lines of the style of
the Russian composer Edward Artemiev, one of the first musicians
in the world to use a sinthesizer to approach new ways of
understanding music, and a world pioneer of the New Musics.
Throughout his long career, Artemiev has gone beyond all the
frontiers among genres. He had the daring initiative to do this
when nobody dared do it. In this CD we have good samples of his
wide musical vision. Instrumental classicism, Symphonic Rock,
Space Music, SynthPop, World Music, electronic experimentation,
and other paths, appear as those travelled by the artist
throughout the pieces here included. In all the cases his talent
is most remarkable, though his condition as a visionary is made
more obvious in the least conventional passages. For instance, his
approach to Space Music reflects a strength that only a few stars
of this genre have succeeded in transmitting. Melodies that
impress from the first moment, unearthly ambiences whose absolute
clarity provides them with an overwhelming realism, powerful
rhythms capable of transmitting all the magnificience of an epic
tale, and a perfect coherence among all the elements.
JORGE MUNNSHE

EDWARD ARTEMYEV
Edward Artemyev began to compose electronic music in the early
1960s. He became interested in scholarly classical music and the
most avant-garde Rock. He is the author of about a hundred and
fifty TV and movie soundtracks. He composed the cantata of the
Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980, for a symphonic orchestra,
choirs, a Rock band and synthesizer; a very unorthodox daring for
those times and country. In 1989 he composed a work for the
Bicentennial of the French Revolution, commissioned by the
organisers of the Festival of Electronic Music in Bourges. Some of
his best known works are: "The Seven Gates into the World of
Satori", "Mood-Pictures", "The Warmth of the Earth", "Peregrini",
and of course his movie soundtracks for the films of Andrei
Tarkovski (on whose memorial he composed a special theme), as well
as those of Andrei Konchalovski and Nikita Mikhalkov. He
alternates his studio work periods with frequent trips to the
international festivals where he is invited as a guest artist. He
has received honors in many countries, as for instance the United
States, and he has also been appointed for a variety of important
posts, as for example one in the International Confederation of
Electroacoustic Music, of the UNESCO. He has composed soundtracks
for the movie industry in Hollywood.
Essential recordings:
-MUSICAL OFFERINGS
-ANS-SYNTHESIZER ELECTRONIC MUSIC
-MOOD-PICTURES
-METAMORPHOSES
-SOLARIS, THE MIRROR, STALKER
-SIBERIADA
-THE WARMTH OF THE EARTH
-ODE TO HERALD OF GOOD
-THE INNER CIRCLE
-ODYSSEY
A BOOK OF IMPRESSIONS

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ARTEMIY ARTEMIEV & PETER FROHMADER:
"TRANSFIGURATION"
Electroshock Records
A new collaboration between Artemiy Artemiev and  Peter Frohmader,
that provides us with another musical adventure of discoveries.
The alchemy betweeen both musicians functions well, and we have
impressive passages where numerous elements converge, a priori
strange among themselves, but they do fit to shape music ranging
from Psychedelia to Space, Industrial and other avantgarde
currents. Artemiy Artemiev possesses, like his father, a wide
experience in the creation of movie soundtracks on the one hand,
and works of electroacoustic experimentation on the other hand.
Peter Frohmader on his part is one of the avantgarde musicians
with a greatest charisma in Europe. No wonder, therefore, that the
collaboration between both musicians is always a sound surprise
box.
EDGAR KOGLER

ARTEMIY ARTEMIEV
Artemiy Artemiev is a Russian composer who works in the style of
electronic, electroacoustic & experimental music. He was born in
1966 in the family of well-known Russian composer of electronic
music Edward Artemiev (his father). His activities are closely
connected with film, theatre & TV industry. Since 1989, he has
composed the music for more than 60 Russian productions (TV,
theatre, radio...). He began his career as a keyboardist in
various Moscow rock groups. In 1987 he began experimenting with
sound, synthesizers, samplers and computers. In 1996 he began to
produce TV-programme "Electroshock" devoted to electronic,
electroacoustic, experimental and avantgarde music. In 1997 he
became a member of Russian Association of Electroacoustic Music.
Also in 1997 along with his friend film-director & producer
Vladimir Krupnitskiy he founded recording label Electroshock
Records. He was among the participants of Bourges Festival of
Electroacoustic Music '97 (France, May 30 - June 8).
Essential recordings:
-THE WARNING
-COLD
-POINT OF INTERSECTION
-FIVE MYSTERY TALES OF ASIA
-MYSTICISM OF SOUND
-SPACE ICON (& Peter Frohmader)
-DREAMS IN MOVING SPACE (& Phillip B. Klinger)
FORGOTTEN THEMES
Tracks in these CDs:
-RED & BLACK by FRANK KLARE + FRIENDS (Green Tree Records)
-SYNTONIC WAVES NO.6 (Woodberry Music Best)
-BACK TO THE UNIVERSE VOL.1 (Only Records)
-RUSSIAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC VOL.1 (Electroshock Records)

You can find more information about Peter Frohmader here, in
Amazing Sounds, at:
http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0068.html

DER SPYRA:
"ELEVATOR TO HEAVEN"
Manikin Records
"Elevator to Heaven" is a triple CD brimming with interesting,
varied pieces. Wolfram Spyra boards electronic music from two main
perspectives. One of them can be classified under Trance,  Ambient
and Space Music. The other can be considered within New
Instrumental Music. Both are well represented in this triple
album. Spyra has a good talent to create soft melodies and
powerful sequences, a skill he uses to build themes of a great
impact. His live performances also possess a great stregth, as
reflected in the pieces of this kind appearing here. "Elevator to
Heaven" is no doubt a work witt a great artistic solidity.
EDGAR KOGLER

SERGE BLENNER:
"VIRTUALIS"
MdeC Editions
In the twelve tracks included in this Cd, Serge Blenner shows once
again his good work in the ambient and contemporary musical
universe. He himself explains this album as the 15th. chapter of
what he calls "Computer Acoustic Music". The remarkable
combination of electronic textures with orchestral passages the
artist realizes results in a successful creation wrapped in
sophisticated melodies brimming with poetry. The title of this
work is explained in the leaflet acconmpanying the Cd thus giving
us the idea of what inspires Blenner in this occasion. In all,
this is fresh, suggestive music that will no doubt appeal to a
wide audience.
MIREILLE AUBERT

SERGE BLENNER
Blenner was born in France in 1955, he began to compose electronic
music by the mid seventies, and started his recording career in
1979. He lives and works in Germany since several years ago.
Essential recordings:
-LA VOGUE
-MAGAZIN FRIVOLE
-FRACTURE INTERNE
-PLAISIR ARDENT
-LA DIMENSION PROCHAINE
-LES ARCHITECTES DU TEMPS
-MUSIQUE ESTHETIQUE
-EQUATEUR
-COSMOS
-LIBERATION
-BABYLONE
-MUSIQUE ESTHETIQUE VOL. 2
-VISION ET POESIE
-AMOUR
-LA VOGUE & MAGAZINE FRIVOLE
-ARS ORATORIA
-VIRTUALIS

SARA AYERS:
"INTERIORS"
Dark Wood Recordings
In this new album, Sara Ayers offers us ten suggestive tracks
evoking thought, emotion and memory, in what the artist defines as
a non-linear music. Dark passages give way to brilliant
soundscapes, the familiar is intertwined with the mysterious, calm
and frenzy seem to pursue one another, and all that creates some
sort of reflecting universe that leads us to feel rather than hear
the music this versatile artist offers us. No doubt this is an
album we should include in our collection.
MARLA ANDERSON

TALES:
"THE SESKIAN WARS"
Somewhere in time Records
Conceived as the ideal soundtrack for the epic narrative contained
in the cover, this album includes eight tracks of eminently
wondrous Space Music. The opening theme, "Sagitarius Gate", makes
a masterful use of sequencers, reminding the listener of the best
tradition of Tangerine Dream,  and flows naturally towards the
following soundscapes. The composer develops each piece with an
absolute mastery of electronic technology thus resulting in an
exciting galactic saga that will no doubt delight the followers of
the science fiction genre.
DREXA NICHOLS

BRANNAN LANE:
"TO EARTH AND BACK"
SpaceFor Music.com Records
Flowing through Space Music, Ambient and Atmospheric Music, in
this occasion, veteran composer Brannan Lane offers us six
wonderful tracks once again  reflecting the versatility of this
artist in what turns out to be two themes, the first giving its
name to the Cd in four parts, and the second, "Boundless",
consisting of two parts. With an obvious mastery of electronic
technology, Lane paints convincing soundscapes that lead the
listener to let imagination fly freely through the musical
universe this expert composer suggests.
MONICA ANDRADES

JAMES JOHNSON and ROBERT SCOTT THOMPSON:
"FORGOTTEN PLACES"
Zero Music / Acourant Records
The ten themes in this Cd flow through Ambient soundscapes, Space
Music and atmospheric universes, thus resulting in a relaxing
album that takes the listener through different, suggestive sonic
ambiences, in some occasions almost ethereal, with acoustic piano
touches intertwined with the purely electronic. This album will no
doubt appeal the followers of these musical genres.
MARLA ANDERSON

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NEWS

TANGERINE DREAM (4): THE MACHINERY WORKING LIVE. No doubt,
Tangerine Dream is a legendary band within the electronic genre
and the musical avantgarde in general. Throughout their long
trajectory, they have explored unknown areas in the music world,
and have contributed to create the basis for a wide variety of
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The First Russian International Festival of Electronic,
Electroacoustic, Experimental & Avant-garde Music,
"Electroshock", is postponed till 2003. It definitely will
take place during celebration events of 300 anniversary of
St. Petersburg.

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TANGERINE DREAM (4): THE MACHINERY WORKING LIVE

No doubt, Tangerine Dream is a legendary band within the
electronic genre and the musical avantgarde in general. Throughout
their long trajectory, they have explored unknown areas in the
music world, and have contributed to create the basis for a wide
variety of current trends.

	 In the eighties, TD initiated the stage of their
macroperformances, events that were not only musical, but also
including lights, images and varied visual effects.
	 An anecdote that illustrates the grandeur of their
performances is the one starred together with a London fire
brigade.
	 The performance they were preparing in a modern hall sited in
the outskirts of London included smoke onstage. During the
rehearsal that day they had to test the coordination with the
smoke effects as well, and so they did. The computerized fire
alarm of the hall was activated as the smoke was detected, and
three fire brigade lorries appeared.
	 When they saw that it was a false alarm caused by the smoke on
the stage, they tried to disconnect the smoke detector, so as to
avoid more unfounded alarms. However, it was impossible for them
to do so, as it was a programmed device they could not deactivate
due to certain technical problems.
	 Later, the alarm sounded once again, and once again the same
fire brigade appeared. They knew it was a false emergency, yet
they were legally obliged to appear every time the alarm sounded.
	 When that night the concert took place, and once again the
smoke covered the stage, once again the three fire brigade lorries
appeared. On some giant screens, images from space were projected
together with others from natural elements. Just at the moment
when the firemen entered running into the premises, the screens
onstage were precisely showing images of fire. So it appeared to
be a deliberate concordance and that TD had played a practical
joke on them, when it was sheer coincidence in actual fact.
	 The great amount of their tours caused that in some cases they
were forced to face fortuitous, rather unfrequent catastrophes, as
for instance an extremely strong storm that sank the stage.
	 That happened in Athens.
	 Due to the fact that they had to play for two nights in the
same place, as they finished their first performance they left all
their equipment ready on the stage so that everything was already
in place the following night.
	 Nevertheless, an extremely strong wind whipped the place.
	 A good part of the structure of the stage was blasted off.
	 The giant screens for projections were blown away by the wind
like sails from a ship, breaking free from their anchorages and
falling onto the stage.
	 The great vertical racks of equipment lost their balance and
fell on the keyboards. These were catapulted to several meters
away.
	 When the TD found out about the disaster, they believed it
would be impossible to give the concert.
	 They decided to try to rebuild their equipment and is if had
been a miracle, everything worked out just fine!
	 Some devices were barely spared a sure destruction, like for
example a computer terminal that had not quite crashed against the
ground as it had stayed hanging from its cable a mere few
centimeters! from the pavement.
	 Other instruments, most of them, functioned perfectly well
despite presenting multiple dents and the keyboards having lost a
lot of keys.
	 In such discouraging circumstances, and against all odds, the
concert could be held as scheduled.
	 No doubt, besides this, other drawbacks suffered  by the band,
such as the blasting of the electric transformer that fed their
equipment to 200 volts from the American electricity of 110 in mid
performance, are meaningless indeed.

(By Jorge Munnshe)


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Christopher Franke

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Peter Baumann

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Johannes Schmoelling

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Paul Haslinger

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Steve Schroyder

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Steve Jolliffe

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Klaus Schulze

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Conrad Schnitzler

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REVIEWS:
VANGELIS: "MYTHODEA" Sony Classical
AT-MOOSS: "CYCLOTRON" At-Mooss Records
KLAUS SCHULZE: "LIVE @ KLANGART" Rainhorse / Manikin
Various: "MUSIC FOR THE 3rd MILLENNIUM Vol. 3" AMP Records
Various: "SYNTONIC WAVES Vol. 8" Spheric Music
FANGER & SCHONWALDER (with LUTZ ULBRICH): "ANALOG OVERDOSE"
Manikin Records
ELLEN BAND: "90% POST CONSUMER SOUND" XI Records
PHILIP CORNER: "40 YEARS AND ONE: PHILIP CORNER PLAYS THE PIANO"
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Oskar Sala died at 91 in Berlin.
Sala, born in 1910, studied composition with Paul Hindemith in
Berlin. He assisted Dr. Friedrich Trautwein in constructing the
first Trautonium, and in 1930, together with Hindemith and Rudolph
Schmidt, gave the premiere performance of the "Triostucke" for
three Trautoniums, composed by Hindemith. In 1931, Sala was the
soloist in Hindemith's "Konzertsuck fur Trautonium mit Begleitung
des Streichorchesters". His first independant construction was a
Radio Trautonium in 1935. Between 1949 and 1952 he succeeded in
builing his Mixtur-Trautonium (a development of the original
Trautonium) with patents registered in Germany, France and the
U.S. In 1958, he created his own electronic studio in Berlin. He
wrote numerous electronic compositions there, particularly for
radio, films and television. His electronic-sound illustration to
Alfred Hitchcock's film "The Birds" became specially well-known.
Essential recordings:
-MY FASCINATING INSTRUMENT
-SUBHARMONISCHE MIXTUREN
-ELEKTRONISCHE IMPRESSIONEN
Our review of "ELEKTRONISCHE IMPRESSIONEN":
This is a very interesting collection of three works played with a
singular instrument: The Trautonium. It is an amazing electric
instrument invented in 1930 by Friedrich Trautwein. In some way,
it was a predecessor of the current synthesizers. The player
presses a wire onto a metal rail, so completing a circuit. The
resistance in the circuit varies depending on the point along the
wire which makes contact with the rail; that in turn determines
the frequency of the note. A unique feature is the series of
subharmonics. This CD contains a recording of "Triostucke"
(composed by Paul Hindemith, 1930) made in 1977 by Oskar Sala on
his Mixtur-Trautonium (a development of the original Trautonium),
a recording of "Konzertsuck fur Trautonium mit Begleitung des
Streichorchesters" (composed by Paul Hindemith, 1931) and
"Elektronische Impressionen" (Oskar Sala, 1978). "Triostucke" and
"Konzertsuck fur Trautonium mit Begleitung des Streichorchesters"
are pieces that enter Classical Music, with some traits typical of
New Music. The trautoniums are accompanied by the acoustic
orchestra. "Elektronische Impressionen" is pure electronic
experimental music, with the philosophy of exploring new sonic
continents.
J. M.

"Colony", the new album release by Bjorn Lynne, is now in the
hands of the CD manufacturing plant. The manufacturing cycle
should take around three weeks. When the CD is released, all
copies sold directly from Bjorn himself (not through other
distributors, only directly from him at his site), will be
individually numbered and signed in Gold ink. This will only be
done to copies sold during the first 14 days after Bjorn announce
the CD for sale. You can see the full track listing and the cover
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=== A MESSAGE FROM THE ELECTROSHOCK FESTIVAL ORGANIZERS===

Dear ladies & gentlemen!

I want to inform You that we are preparing the greatest Event in
the history of International modern music. This is the "First
Russian International Festival of Electronic, Electroacoustic,
Experimental & Avant-garde Music-Electroshock". It will take place
at the end of July'02 in St. Petersburg and last for 10 days.

More than 300 composers and musicians will participate in this
historic Event. Manuel Gottsching, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter
Moebius, Rick Wakeman, Francis Dhomont, Jorge Antunes, Edward
Artemiev, "Art Zoyd", Iasos, Constance Demby, Michel Huygen, Steve
Roach, Vidna Obmana, Jeff Grienke, Dom F. Scab, "T-Bass" are among
them. We also planning to invite Vangelis, Isao Tomita, Brian Eno,
Kitaro and Robert Fripp.

More information about the Festival could be found in our website:

http://www.electroshock.ru
(section "Festival")

We invite all organizations and firms for co-operation. We are
opened for any proposal.

President of the Festival:
Artemiy Artemiev (E-mail: info@...)

General Director of the Festival:
Alexander Kozyrev (E-mail: alexss_us@...)

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REVIEWS:

VANGELIS:
"MYTHODEA"
Sony Classical
This album gathers the music composed by the author for the NASA
mission 2001 Mars Odyssey. This is one of the most Classical
albums lately released by Vangelis. The 11 pieces constituting
this compact disc are more orchestra-oriented rather than
electronic. Vangelis, who in this album plays the electronic
keyboards, is accompanied by Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman
(sopranos), the London Metropolitan Orchestra, and the National
Opera of Greece Choir. With the strength of a painter from the
Renaissance, in this album, Vangelis embarks into an epic voyage
to the Red Planet. The majestic melodies appear to grow little by
little, in a continuous crescendo that reaches incredible heights.
Although "Mythodea" is not a dark work, there is no lack of
mysterious atmospheres and passages, where one can, for instance,
feel as if we were travelling towards the unknown, far from any
common region of the universe. In summary, a wonderful classical
work by The Wizard of Keyboards.
JORGE MUNNSHE

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

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VANGELIS
The Greek composer Evangelos (Vangelis) Papathanassiou, born in
1943, began his career as a rock musician in the sixties,
achieving a great success in his country, and later all over the
world with his band Aphrodite's Child. In the early 1970s, he
became a pioneer of electronic music, starting then his solo
career. An author of several movie soundtracks, he achieved his
greatest success in this field in 1982 when he was awarded the
Oscar to the best soundtrack for Chariots of Fire. He has
collaborated with several musicians, among them Jon Anderson,
Neuronium and Demis Roussos.
Essential recordings:
-SEX POWER
-FAINS QUE TON REVE SOIT PLUS LONG QUE LA NUIT
-L'APOCALYPSE DES ANIMAUX
-EARTH
-HEAVEN AND HELL
-ALBEDO 0:39
-LA FETE SAUVAGE
-IGNACIO
-SPIRAL
-BEAUBOURG
-CHINA
-OPERA SAUVAGE
-SEE YOU LATER
-CHARIOTS OF FIRE
-ANTARCTICA
-SOIL FESTIVITIES
-INVISIBLE CONNECTIONS
-MASK
-DIRECT
-THEMES
-THE CITY
-1492 CONQUEST OF PARADISE
-VOICES
-PORTRAITS
-OCEANIC
-MYTHODEA
& Neuronium:
-IN LONDON
-A SEPARATE AFFAIR
& Jon Anderson:
-SHORT STORIES
-FRIENDS OF MR. CAIRO
-PRIVATE COLLECTION
-PAGE OF LIFE
& Irene Papas:
-ODES
-RAPSODIES
In Aphrodite's Child:
-END OF THE WORLD
-IT'S FIVE O'CLOCK
-666 - THE APOCALYPSE OF JOHN

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AT-MOOSS:
"CYCLOTRON"
At-Mooss Records
The band At-Mooss surprise us once again with an immersion into
unknown abysses in the ocean of the musical avantgarde. The
musicians utilize electronics with a great imagination and skill,
drawing with energic brush-strokes a stage to let imagination run
free towards life-and-death situations. They create an icy
universe, with eerie yet wondrous landscapes, as well as zones of
anguish and darkness. The six pieces, composed by Joseph Loibant
and Air J. Mic, are each one a journey towards the unknown. All of
them possess a decidedly mysterious, enigmatic character.
Throughout the 64 minutes that the CD lasts, we can hear traits
from styles like Trance, Industrial, Ambient and Dark Space
Sequencer Music. Also there are passages that get near to Medieval
music, others near to Psychedelic, and some very imaginative ones,
too difficult to label adequately. The electronic instruments
sound with unusual forms and therefore they turn out to be
remarkable enough. There are slow passages with other lively ones.
In the former, the structure is based on a dense electronic
texture, in a permanent evolution, with shades of sound that
change subtly second by second. In the latter, hard sequencer
rhythms and metallic percussion prevails. Immensity is the concept
that this album can evoke best in the imagination of the listener.
On the whole, the work is like a collection of dreams or
nightmares turned into music. "Cyclotron" is an album deserving
maximum admiration, and one which constitutes a perfect example of
artistic inspiration as well as technical mastery.
JORGE MUNNSHE

AT-MOOSS
The band At-Mooss create a powerful, imaginative electronic music.
To this end, they utilize an uncommon amount and variety of
technology, ranging from analog synthesizers to morphing
techniques. They have not been scarce on means when it comes to
shaping their artistic ideas, and thus their studio ressembles a
store of synthesizers and musical equipment. Yet they not only
have gathered devices, but also they know how to use them with
enough mastery as to succeed in developing the diverse aspects of
their artistic philosophy to the fullest potential.
Essential recordings:
-MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS
-MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS-II
-MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS-III
-CYCLOTRON

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KLAUS SCHULZE:
"LIVE @ KLANGART"
Rainhorse / Manikin
Consisting of 2 CDs, the total running time of this work amounts
to 137 minutes. Five blocks, each including several pieces, offer
us a kind of music like the kind of Schulze's style which was
usual in the nineties. Some themes are slow, with melodies that in
some occasions tend to be of an intense romanticism, while in
other instances they have an enigmatic, or even a dark air. Other
pieces turn out to have a quite energetic rhythm. The rhythmic
structure of the music tends to be based on the sequencers as a
general rule, as well as on the percussion typical of pop.
JORGE MUNNSHE

KLAUS SCHULZE
The German composer Klaus Schulze, a pioneer of electronic music,
began his career in the late 1960s. He was a member of several
bands, among them Tangerine Dream and Ashra Tempel. In 1972 he
released his first solo record. In the 1970s he became famous at
an international level, both because of his records and his
spectacular concert tours.
Essential recordings:
-IRRLICHT
-CYBORG
-PICTURE MUSIC
-BLACKDANCE
-TIMEWIND
-MOONDAWN
-BODY LOVE 1
-MIRAGE
-BODY LOVE 2
-X
-DUNE
-LIVE
-DIG IT
-TRANCEFER
-AUDENTITY
-DZIEKUJE POLAND
-ANGST
-INTER*FACE
-DREAMS
-EN=TRANCE
-MIDITERRANEAN PADS
-THE DRESDEN PERFORMANCE
-BEYOND RECALL
-ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL VOL.1
-ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL VOL.2
-THE DOME EVENT
-SILVER EDITION (10 CDs)
-LE MOULIN DE DAUDET
-TOTENTAG
-DAS WAGNER DESASTER
-HISTORIC EDITION (10 CDs)
-IN BLUE
-ARE YOU SEQUENCED?
-JUBILEE EDITION (25 CDs)
-DOSBURG ONLINE
-TRAILER
-CONTEMPORANY WORKS (10 CD Box)
-LIVE @ KLANGART
As WAHNFRIED or RICHARD WAHNFRIED together with other artists:
-TIME ACTOR
-TONWELLE
-RICHARD WAHNFRIED PLAYS MEGATONE
-MIDITATION
-TRANCELATION
-TRANCE APPEAL
In Tangerine Dream:
MEDITATION
In Ashra Tempel:
-ASHRA TEMPEL
-JOINN IN
-GIN ROSE AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL
-FRIENDSHIP
In The Cosmic Jokers:
-THE COSMIC JOKERS
-PLANETEN SIT-IN
-GALACTIC SUPERMARKET
-SCI FY PARTY
-GILLES ZEITSCHIFF
In collaboration with other musicians:
With Rainer Bloss: DRIVE INN
With Rainer Bloss and Ernst Fuchs: APHRICA
With Andreas Grosser: BABEL
With Vangelis: CONQUEST OF PARADISE (CD-single) (version by
Schulze of the theme of the same title by Vangelis)
-KLAUS SCHULZE GOES CLASSIC (versions of pieces by different
classical authors)

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Various:
"MUSIC FOR THE 3rd MILLENNIUM Vol. 3"
AMP Records
In this collection of wonderful electronic music released by the
label AMP Records, there is a varied stylistic content, although
more or less it can be framed within the Space music. The contents
of this CD is: Robert Schroeder: "Sax Delight", Vincent Clarke &
Martyn Ware: "Massive", Damo Suzuki's Network: "Manager
Cinderella", Geoff Downes New Dance Orchestra: "Shadows, Pts. 7 &
6", Warren Cuccurullo: "The Holy Man's Plea", Alquimia Vs. Steve
Baltes: "Encinerada; Total Restructure", Johannes Schmoelling:
"Spacenight Runner", Vidna Obmana: "Creep", Rudiger Gleisberg
Feat. Alquimia: "Remote Viewing", Mario Schoenwalder, Detlef
Keller & Bas Broekhuis: "Wolfsburg Rehearsal", Harald Grosskopf:
"Digital Nomad". There are melodic passages of a great emotional
strength, powerful sequencers, and atmospheres full of mystery.
The followers of Space Music will no doubt enjoy this album.
EDGAR KOGLER

Various:
"SYNTONIC WAVES Vol. 8"
Spheric Music
The label Spheric Music, a leader in the difusion of imaginative
Space Music, has released an excellent compilatory album that
gathers a selection of pieces from different artists. This is the
contents of the album: Klangwelt: "Blue Planet", Michael
Obermeier: "Color your emotion", Jonson: "Minimalism unfinished
2nd", Wild Element: "Sonic space", Gunnar Spardel: "Age of
silence", Gianfranco Grilli: "The Nile", Erik Seifert:
"Cosmonautic dream", Deep Tune: "Defered dreams", Palantír:
"Extinct is forever", Carola Kern: "Return to forever", Lambert
Ringlage: "Passing Images", Faralley: "out of my mind", Foreign
Spaces: "Laurasia". The themes here selected constitute a good
sample of the music by these composers.
EDGAR KOGLER

FANGER & SCHONWALDER (with LUTZ ULBRICH):
"ANALOG OVERDOSE"
Manikin Records
Thomas Fanger and Mario Sconwalder present us a work where rhythm,
atmospheres and melody are very well combined. The basic style
includes Space and Trance traits. Although there are some slow
passages, most of the music has a good rhythm, with a prevalence
of the sequencers in the rhythmic structures. This is a powerful
work, where the artists contribute their musical talent to achieve
a fresh, emotive sonic journey. Fanger and Sconwalder counted with
the special collaboration of Lutz Ulbrich, well known for his
success in the famous band Ashra Tempel. Ulbrich plays guitar on
three tracks.
EDGAR KOGLER

ELLEN BAND:
"90% POST CONSUMER SOUND"
XI Records
Throughout five pieces with a global running time of 61 minutes,
we witness a strange, hypnotic process of transformations of
sounds. Far from any common region of the musical universe, this
work is an island open to the most radical forms of
experimentation. Some of the pieces possess a certain
electroacoustic character, others approach minimalism, but no
known label could be applied to it.
DOMINIQUE CHEVANT

PHILIP CORNER:
"40 YEARS AND ONE: PHILIP CORNER PLAYS THE PIANO"
XI Records
This CD gathers 9 experimental works created by Philip Corner. The
structure of the music, solely performed with the piano, is very
slow and relaxed, with each sound vanishing into silence before
the next one comes.
VALERIANO GUIOL

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A MESSAGE FROM THE ELECTROSHOCK FESTIVAL ORGANIZERS

NEURONIUM RECORDS IS BORN. Michel Huygen (Neuronium) has just
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On April 18, 2002 (19:00), Artur Lason (live electronics), Jacek
Bak (acoustic guitar) and Guy Ferraton (harmonica) will give a
live performance at The Art Novum Gallery (30 / 36 Washington
Street), in Warsaw, Poland. The admission will be free.

On April 29, 2002, the band Mother Mallard Portable Masterpiece
Co. will give a live performance in New York City.

On June 1, 2002 (22:00), the famous Terry Riley and Stefano
Scodanibbio will give a live performance at the Espai, in
Barcelona, Spain.

=== A MESSAGE FROM THE ELECTROSHOCK FESTIVAL ORGANIZERS===

Dear ladies & gentlemen!

I want to inform You that we are preparing the greatest Event in
the history of International modern music. This is the "First
Russian International Festival of Electronic, Electroacoustic,
Experimental & Avant-garde Music-Electroshock". It will take place
at the end of July'02 in St. Petersburg and last for 10 days.

More than 300 composers and musicians will participate in this
historic Event. Manuel Gottsching, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter
Moebius, Rick Wakeman, Francis Dhomont, Jorge Antunes, Edward
Artemiev, "Art Zoyd", Iasos, Constance Demby, Michel Huygen, Steve
Roach, Vidna Obmana, Jeff Grienke, Dom F. Scab, "T-Bass" are among
them. We also planning to invite Vangelis, Isao Tomita, Brian Eno,
Kitaro and Robert Fripp.

More information about the Festival could be found in our website:

http://www.electroshock.ru
(section "Festival")

We invite all organizations and firms for co-operation. We are
opened for any proposal.

President of the Festival:
Artemiy Artemiev (E-mail: info@...)

General Director of the Festival:
Alexander Kozyrev (E-mail: alexss_us@...)

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NEURONIUM RECORDS IS BORN

Michel Huygen (Neuronium) has just established a label where,
apart from his own albums, he will release works by Constance
Demby, Jonn Serrie, Pascal Languirand, and other avantgarde
artists.

Michel Huygen had already registered Neuronium Records as a label
since the beginning of his musical career, in 1976. Even though in
these days he had nothing definite, and had even just signed a
contract with the label EMI, he certainly was thinking of founding
a label of his own some day, so as to release the works of artists
whose music was on his line. In the year 2001 he began to
seriously consider this project,and he gave the first steps to
this end. Now, on March, 2002, this project is definitely a fact.

With the establishment of Neuronium Records as an active label, we
converse with Michel Huygen.

One of the first things he tells us is his firm determination not
to pressure any of the artists in his label to make undesired
changes on their part, on their works, nor to have them change
their style on marketing grounds. "Respect for the artist is
important. If he is chosen for his music, this music must be left
intact. I will not do to any artist what EMI, and a number of oher
labels tried to do to me years ago. That's why I changed labels so
often."

Neuronium Records is not intended as a local label, but rather its
releases are aimed both at the European and the world market. It
is oriented towards a variety of musical genres with which Huygen
feels comfortable, for instance Melodic Space Music and New
Instrumental Music, among others. The label is intended to be
quite active in the number of releases, yet without implying
condescendence in the quality of the works to be released. In this
latter aspect, Michel states that in Neuronium Records there will
never appear the kind of products done with the minimum effort
that discredited the New Age. "My idea is that Neuronium Records
be a label synonym with diversity, and also quality."

Several releases shape the beginnings of this label.

Album number thirty of Michel Huygen, "Placebo", an album he signs
with his own name instead of Neuronium , his alter ego, is a
surprising, daring release. Showing that the artist is capable of
giving true surprises, in this occasion he breaks with the
transcendental space adventures , and offers us a work dominated
by rhythm, far from cosmic lanes, yet radically electronic. A
music brimming with dynamism and happiness, it injects vitality
into the listener, and is ideal to listen to, for instance, when
one needs to overcome laziness and apathy, and start doing things
with optimism. Michel also tells us that, although in other albums
he has carefully worked the stereo panorama, in this release he
has made a special extraordinary effort. His idea has been that of
giving solidity to the sounds, as if they were real objects that
flow around us. He explains, "This is an album that is completely
unlike anything I have done so far and I would find it difficult
to duplicate. I have succeeded in shaping what I had in mind,
despite the fact that it was truly complicated. This is not a
release that, in my view, could be labelled as strange, yet it
will certainly attract attention." With respect to the question of
whether an artist must always be loyal to a given personal style,
he replies, "I believe that nobody is the same every day of the
year. I was feeling like doing something very dynamic and I have
done it."

"In London - The Platinum Edition", is a completely remastered
version of the notorious album "In London", which gathers the
half-improvised sessions of Neuronium and Vangelis when they
played together in the legendary Nemo Studio. Michel Huygen
himself has taken care of the remastering, in 24 bits, which
confers the music a greater dynamism, so that its sonority turns
out to be far wider and clearer. This re-release is partly due to
the pressure of the fans of both musicians, as many of them could
not get a copy of the album when it was first released.

"Sanctum Sanctuorum" is the first album by Constance Demby in five
years since her "Aeterna" in 1997. This is a long time matured
work, brimming with mysticism and emotion, and surely is a
reflection of the very life of the composer in these five years,
Continuing with the same path of grand, powerful orchestrations,
as in her previous releases, although with a perhaps more
notorious use of samplers, this release will no doubt appeal the
followers of Space Music. Also, the re-release of "Set Free", with
a new remastering and a likewise new graphic design is scheduled
soon.

The new album by Pascal Languirand, the well known author of
"Living on Video" (Trans-X) is called "Renaissance". This is a
work of electronic music widely varied and wealthy, full of
surprises, where the artist has been working for a year and a
half. This is said to be his best album in these last years. No
doubt, it will appeal to those listeners that enjoyed"Gregorian
Waves". Some tracks are instrumental. Others include his voice,
modulated with unusual vocal techniques. With great mastery, he
weaves a baroque tapestry with elements of Synth-Pop, Space Music,
and even with a clear medieval air. In actual fact, there are
passages that are like open windows to the Middle Ages. Pascal
sings in Latin, Medieval French and present-day French. The album
also includes a new version, in French, of the theme "Sólo
pensando en tí", whose music was originally composed by Michel
Huygen. Michael believes that some of the tracks are this kind of
pieces that mark a before and an after in musical innovation.

Santi Picó also deserves the attention of Neuronium Records. His
first album here is a compilation, some sort of "The best of...",
that gathers his best themes, in a remastered format. Huygen
himself has created the cover, among other things.

Jonn Serrie also has a release with Neuronium Records. This is his
album "Lumia Nights". Huygen values Serrie's style a great deal,
and likewise, Serrie admires Michel's as well. This, together with
the fact that both styles, even if they are different, fit
perfectly well together, has led them to consider the project of
making an album together, an idea they have been caressing for
some time.

In the first batch of releases there also is the sampler "The
future of music... now. Vol. 1", where themes by the first
artists of this label appear. Lasting 71 minutes, this
sampler includes pieces with the most characteristic style of
each one of the artists featuring the album.

Attending the insistent demands of the fans, Michel Huygen will
also release material previously unreleased in vynil by Neuronium,
often having historical importance within electronic music itself,
as for instance a series of recordings of the late 1970's and
early 1980's, which marked the beginnings of Neuronium and created
a school.

Neuronium Records will also release music videos, through a
division especially established to this purpose. Betting for the
future, the support used will be DVD. Video tapes are no longer
considered. Among these videos we will be able to find not only
live performances, but also sophisticated audio visual creations
with a cosmic nature. Some of the first works have already been
decided on, as for instance the audio visual epic "Star
Chronicles" by Jonn Serrie, and the concert "Live in Tokyo" by
Constance Demby. Among the advantages of DVD seen by Michel in
front of the tape, mention must be made of the possibility of
projection on wide screens without the loss of quality of tapes,
and the conservation of quality after a continued use, a thing
this latter consideration, that is extremely important in a music
video, which is more often watched than a movie.

Michel Huygen wants to point out clearly that his friendship with
the early artists of his label has not influenced his decision to
release their music.Actually, if once he made friends with them,
it was because of the music they created.

Michel also tells us of an attractive project that he has had in
mind for some time. His interest in cosmetics, a field in which he
has technical knowledge, and the idea that aromas awaken
sensations, just like sounds do, has led him to endeavour to
create a perfume that somehow awakens the same global sensation
that his musical style causes. For this reason he has been very
interested in the initiative by Jonn Serrie, who shares this very
interest in cosmetics, and who has already presented a perfume
together with an album.

(By Jorge Munnshe)

Neuronium Records web:

http://www.neuronium.com/neurorec/

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NEWS

MESSAGE FROM THE ELECTROSHOCK FESTIVAL ORGANIZERS

REVIEWS:
VARIOUS: "ELECTRONIC @GE VOL.1" Prudence / BSC Music
VARIOUS: "BUDDHA LOUNGE" Prudence / BSC Music
VARIOUS: "HIDDEN TREASURES VOL.4 (THE FOUTH DIMENSION)" Prudence /
BSC Music
VASCO MARTINS: "LUNARIO PERPETUO" VM Productions
OPERA TO RELAX: "FROM LIFE 2 LIFE" Prudence / BSC Music
LUTZ ULBRICH: "KURZMUSIKEN" Manikin Records
MOTHER MALLARD: "LIKE A DUCK TO WATER" Cuneiform Records
RAINBOW SERPENT: "VOICES OF THE FIRST DAY" Manikin Records
BALTES / GROSSKOPF / HEILHECKER: "VIERMALDREI" Manikin Records
KELLER & SCHONWALDER: THE REASON WHY...PART TWO Manikin Records
LUIS ALBERTO NARANJO: "SPHERA" Blue Project Musica
LARRY KUCHARZ: "TECHNO UNIT 32: MISC. TRACKS" International
Audiochrome
STEPHANIE SANTE: "INNER BEAUTY" Sante Music
BERND KISTENMACHER: "UN VIAGGIO ATTRAVERSO L'ITALIA" Prudence /
BSC Music
ERIK WOLLO: "WIND JOURNEY" Spotted Peccary Music

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"Quasar 2C361" (1977) and "Vuelo Quimico" (1978), the two first
albums by Neuronium, are available for online purchasing, with
direct download of the music & artwork. Both albums have been
totally digitally remastered by Michel Huygen. "Quasar 2C361" is a
legendary work, where Neuronium / Michel Huygen proved their great
imagination by creating a magnificient symphony of electronic
music of a high degree. "Vuelo Quimico" ("Chemical Flight") is
other legendary work, a magical voyage through amazing worlds. It
also had the extraordinary collaboration of Nico (ex Velvet
Underground)
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On July 25, 2002, Dom F. Scab will give a live performance at the
Grand Concert Hall of St. Petersburg's Philharmonia, Russia (08.00
PM).

In July 2002, Michel Huygen (Neuronium) will give a live
performance in Russia.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE ELECTROSHOCK FESTIVAL ORGANIZERS

Dear ladies & gentlemen!

I want to inform You that we are preparing the greatest Event in
the history of International modern music. This is the "First
Russian International Festival of Electronic, Electroacoustic,
Experimental & Avant-garde Music-Electroshock". It will take place
at the end of July'02 in St. Petersburg and last for 10 days.

More than 300 composers and musicians will participate in this
historic Event. Manuel Gottsching, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter
Moebius, Rick Wakeman, Francis Dhomont, Jorge Antunes, Edward
Artemiev, "Art Zoyd", Iasos, Constance Demby, Michel Huygen, Steve
Roach, Vidna Obmana, Jeff Grienke, Dom F. Scab, "T-Bass" are among
them. We also planning to invite Vangelis, Isao Tomita, Brian Eno,
Kitaro and Robert Fripp.

More information about the Festival could be found in our website:

http://www.electroshock.ru
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We invite all organizations and firms for co-operation. We are
opened for any proposal.

President of the Festival:
Artemiy Artemiev (E-mail: info@...)

General Director of the Festival:
Alexander Kozyrev (E-mail: alexss_us@...)

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REVIEWS:

VARIOUS:
"ELECTRONIC @GE VOL.1"
Prudence / BSC Music
In this album we find a selection of themes whose main
characteristic is the fact that they belong to some of the most
popular areas nowadays in the electronic music panorama, The
global structure is more or less within the Synth-Pop, and from
here the music advances in different directions. The contents of
the CD are these: Jeff Greinke: "Time Will Tell", Drum'n'Space:
"Walks", Bernd Kistenmacher: "Un viaggio attraverso l'Italia (The
High Fly Mix)", Dariusz Kalinski: "Upward", Jeff Greinke: "City
Stream", Zinkl & Alquimia: "Siren", Alquimia: "Solar Quest", Peter
Mergener: "Wet Places", Roedelius: "Cheerweed", Drum'n'Space:
"Science", Nautilus: "Volcano Ride", Zinkl: "Talented Fleas Inc.",
Roedelius: "Dran bleiben"
PASCUAL JURADO

VARIOUS:
"BUDDHA LOUNGE"
Prudence / BSC Music
Atmospheric Pop with touches of World Music and of Ambient, this
is the basic description of the selection of pieces gathered in
this album, with well known artists in this label as well as
others who are newer additions. The contents of the album is the
following: Roedelius: "Poetry", Gary Stadler: "DonaCreiTun",
Althea W.: "Abo Daylight", Opera To Relax: "From Life 2 Life",
Drum'n'Space: "The Audience", Yulara: "Om Namah Shivaya",
Svensson: "In The Move", Marcator: "What Is Right", Delago:
"Second Day", Zingaia: "Divine Flame", Alquimia: "Night Of The
Alebrijes", Roedelius: "Glass From Jasper", Peter Mergener: "Rain
In Australia"
PASCUAL JURADO

VARIOUS:
"HIDDEN TREASURES VOL.4 (THE FOUTH DIMENSION)"
Prudence / BSC Music
Memi.com, an online magazine on electronic music, has collaborated
with the label Prudence to prepare a selection of pieces from
various artists, famous or otherwise. In this fourth release of
the series, the stylistic focus has mostly been oriented towards
atmospheric Pop and Synth-Pop, with Ambient touches and some
experimenting. The contents of the double album is as follows:
Sonic Adventure Project: "Pink Synth", Drum'n'Space: "The
Audience", O-LUV: "Transmission", Airman: "Underwater Portal",
Roedelius: "Aber iwo doch", Digital ART: "Sector E", Easyflow!:
"Bossa 2000", Agent Error: "French Connection", Glorybox:
"Afterlife", Rother/Moebius/Beckmann: "Wolkenwelt", Nostalgia:
"Augurium", Plasc: "What's On Your Mind", Depole: "All Over Blue",
Ginkgo Garden: "Voices From The Past", Toy Of Love: "But Memories
Remain", Rainer Buchty: "Overture", Synthesia: "Myst Of Tales",
Peter Mergener: "1802", Alquimia: "Torna Danza", Mathias Gurk:
"Stormchaser", Lunaar: "Starcrash!", The Wizoo: "Planet Wave No.
6", Driftin' Thoughts: "Last Call From Wasteland", Zinkl: "Fanfare
For The Giant Beetle", Bernd Kistenmacher: "Cut!", Thomas
Gruberski: "Cathedral Of Light"
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

VASCO MARTINS:
"LUNARIO PERPETUO"
VM Productions
An impressive double CD full of symphonism and unearthly
ambiences. On the one hand, we have the bewithching keyboards of
the first CD. On the other hand, the warm electric guitar of the
second CD. In both cases, this imaginative artist from Green Cape
knows how to play with the sound of echoes and of silence itself,
while weaving suggestive, crystaline tapestries. The music
insinuates the romanticism of a summer night under a starry sky.
Drifting from Ambient to the most ethereal sector of Classical
Music, this work shows a daring stylistic conceptand the excellent
level that Vasco Martins  has as a music innovator.
HECTOR JORDAN

OPERA TO RELAX:
"FROM LIFE 2 LIFE"
Prudence / BSC Music
The duo Opera to relax, consisting in Veronika Langguth and Martin
Hoemberg, creates a kind of music near to Atmospheric Pop, full of
warm atmospheres and with the sensual vocals of Veronika stressing
in various passages the ethereal nature of this work. Martin
Hoemberg is well known thanks to his activity in the musical
avantgarde of the seventies. Veronika Langguth is a popular
specialist in personal growth therapies who has written books on
this issue and who even founded a dance ensemble. Her musical
ideas have found in those by Martin the perfect complement to give
birth to the style of the duo.
HECTOR JORDAN

LUTZ ULBRICH:
"KURZMUSIKEN"
Manikin Records
Guitarist Lutz Ulbrich is one of the great artists in the musical
avantgarde that in the seventies led the birth of the most popular
genres in electronic music. Well known for his work in Ashra
Tempel and Agitation Free, he collaborated with the legendary
artist Nico, has created music for all sorts of media, and in a
word, his musical life is intimately intertwined with the history
of electronic music itself. This double album includes a
magnificient collection of unreleased pieces, selected among over
two hundred tapes by the author, to elaborate, in a way, a sort of
musical biography outside his work in Ashra Tempel and other
bands. The great wealth, originality and variety of the 50 themes
here gathered are the best witness to the creative force and the
visionary capability of Lutz Ulbrich. We can listen to Space
Music, ominous, epic, wondrous, symphonic, psychedelic,
progressive, Synth-Pop, with ethnic influences and even music that
cannot be labelled, although in all the cases it is a high quality
music that breaks all patterns.
JORGE MUNNSHE

MOTHER MALLARD:
"LIKE A DUCK TO WATER"
Cuneiform Records
Albums like this one help the listener to understand the origins
and the evolution of electronic music better than any book. Mother
Mallard, a band whose creation was intimately shaped by the birth
of the synthesizers by Robert Moog, with whom they were in close
contact, already had an important musical history when in the mid
seventies they created the compositions that are gathered in this
album. Following the innovative spirit of their earliest
creations, Mother Mallard explore the beauty and the complexity of
rhythmic sequences and those of other elements that shaped the
identity marks of Space Sequencer Music, while at the same time
adopting a structure typical of Minimalism, directly linking it
all with the experiences that other pioneers were carrying out in
the field of scholar musical experimentation. It is no coincidence
that Mother Mallard be a band described by many as a predecessor
of Tangerine Dream, both due to their imaginative use of
sequencers and layers of melodies overlapping one another
developed with synthesizers, and at the same time having featured
collaborations of such artists as John Cage. Those different ways
of experimentation, at times being completely at odds with one
another as they are, fit perfectly well with Mother Mallard.
EDGAR KOGLER

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RAINBOW SERPENT:
"VOICES OF THE FIRST DAY"
Manikin Records
Rainbow Serpent show in this album a great sensitivity when it
comes to creating passages dominated by warm, emotional melodies,
together with others where the strong sequencer rhythms dominate.
With a clear inspiration in the search by means of radio
telescopes of intelligent life signs coming from space, the music
is perfectly adequate to the transcendency of this activity, and
turns out to be mysterious, powerful and intense.
EDGAR KOGLER

BALTES / GROSSKOPF / HEILHECKER:
"VIERMALDREI"
Manikin Records
Steve Baltes, Harald Grosskopf and Axel Manrico Heilhecker have
released an album of vital rhythmic music, near to Trance, Synth-
Pop and Psychedelic Rock. The style of the four themes included in
this release also contains stylistic traits that remind the
listener of Ashra Tempel, a band that has made Baltes and
Grosskopf well known for their creativity and strength.
EDGAR KOGLER

KELLER & SCHONWALDER:
THE REASON WHY...PART TWO
Manikin Records
In this new collaboration of German synthesists Detlef Keller and
Mario Schonwalder, as in former works, space atmospheres,powerful
sequencer rhythms and long developments are the predominant leit
motiv, almost trance-like, of the tracks here included. Three
compositions shape this album, recorded during live performances.
This is a kind of electronic music that sets the listeners'
imagination to roam free in the sky. soaring and flying
unrestrained over suggestive soundscapes.
EDGAR KOGLER

LUIS ALBERTO NARANJO:
"SPHERA"
Blue Project Musica
A fresh sort of music, personal, full of solid ideas. Thus is
"Sphera", a work that emphasizes the capability of electronic
music to deeply penetrate the human soul, even more deeply than
many acoustic, conventional ways of making music. By joining
emotional melodies, with a certain melancholy, mysterious air,
with elements from Synth-Pop and from a symphonism with certain
Classical touches, the composer succeeds in creating a soundscape
of a great beauty indeed.
HECTOR JORDAN

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LARRY KUCHARZ:
"TECHNO UNIT 32: MISC. TRACKS"
International Audiochrome
A very interesting CD by Larry Kucharz. By recovering in part the
avantgarde ideas on rhythm and  minimalism he developed years ago,
he dares to enter the terrain of Techno and Trance music, to
create pieces that, on the one hand, will attract those who follow
genres linked to these labels, while at the same time carrying out
a clear exercise of minimalism. Completely based on rhythm, the
eleven tracks have also melodies, often supported on the rhythmic
variations themselves.
PASCUAL JURADO

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STEPHANIE SANTE:
"INNER BEAUTY"
Sante Music
Stephanie Sante is a composer capable of plunging us into
unearthly regions, dominated by the heavenly, although with dark
secret paths as well. Using synthesizers with great warmth, she
creates pieces of a  crystaline ambient, ethereal, ingravid. The
music is mostly static, with melodic waves that come and go,
though there also are rhythmic passages where she makes an
imaginative use of sequencers.
HECTOR JORDAN

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BERND KISTENMACHER:
"UN VIAGGIO ATTRAVERSO L'ITALIA"
Prudence / BSC Music
Proving his versatility as a composer, synthesist Bernd
Kistenmacher shapes in the form of music his personal impressions
after a stay in Italy. Fusing his Berlin electronic roots with a
symphonism of classical traits and a Mediterranean focus, he
offers us four tracks brimming with vitality, where he masterfully
manages rhythms near to Trance, atmospheres typical of Ambient,
and often romantic melodies that are enhanced by the use of piano
in certain passages.
EDGAR KOGLER

ERIK WOLLO:
"WIND JOURNEY"
Spotted Peccary Music
Luminous airy music. Thus could this album by Erik Wollo be
defined. Luminous because it turns out to be as warm as the
sunrays in a clear morning. Airy, given its agile, dynamic,
crystalline and at times ethereal shades. Both the title and the
cover of the album refer to an air walk. And certainly, the
compositions seem to reflect the sensations and emotions that can
be experienced in free flight, onboard a balloon or an airplane.
Of course, there also are moments with other orientations. Yet
anyway, this is a very intense album, where it is obvious that
Wollo has immersed his five senses. On the other hand, This is
styllistically speaking his most electronic album in several
years.
EDGAR KOGLER

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CONTENTS:

NEWS

REVIEWS:
COLETTE & PHIL: "ANCIENT ANCESTORS" Mystery Song Productions
SALLY OLDFIELD: "FLAMING STAR" New World Music
APEIRON & VASUDEVA: "MIRROR IMAGES" Spheric Music
DOUCET & MIRAZ: "RESONANCE" Prudence
GOLANA: "WALK BETWEEN WORLDS" BSC Music
TOM HEASLEY: "WHERE THE EARTH MEETS THE SKY" Hypnos
STEPHANIE SANTE: "IMMACULATE CONCEPTIONS" Sante Music
DJAM KARET: "NEW DARK AGE" Cuneiform
JEFF PEARCE: "THE LIGHT BEYOND" Hypnos
GARY STADLER: "FAIRY HEART MAGIC" Prudence
PAUL VNUCK Jr: "SILENCE SPEAKS IN SHADOW" Hypnos
ZINGAIA: "DANCERS OF TWILIGHT" Prudence

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Obituaries: Florian Fricke (founder of Popol Vuh), Michael
Karoli (founder member of Can) and Peter Bardens (keyboardist
of Camel) We'll miss them.

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REVIEWS:

COLETTE & PHIL:
"ANCIENT ANCESTORS"
Mystery Song Productions
Like a voyage through time, the music in this album takes us
towards the unknown eras of yesterday, but also towards the
unknown tomorrow. In their second album, Colette and Phil have
succeeded in creating an epic symphony, intense, full of warmth,
beauty and also mystery. To this end they have masterfully
utilized various stylistic elements that fit perfectly together,
thus providing their music with a clear personal style. With a
basic structure that ranges from space Ambient to the most
symphonic sector of New Instrumental Music, Colette's ethereal
voice turns out to be the ideal complement to enhance the vitality
appreciated in all the tracks. Rather than singing in the
conventional sense, Colette utilizes her voice in numerous
passages as if it were an instrument, without necessarily
resorting to words. Her crystaline voice is perceived perfectly
blended with the choirs of synthesizers, played by Phil, in such a
way that the frontiers between the acoustic and the electronic are
lost in the horizon of musical magic. The electronic treatment of
Colette's vocals in various passages enhances the most mysterious
shades of her vocal technique and makes it look as if we were
dreaming the fact that we are hearing her. Colette's artistic
sensitivity, palpable both in the poetry books she has written and
in her career as an actress, is clearly perceived throughout the
album. Wrapped in wondrous orchestrations, at times with a
heavenly air, melodies possessing a great strength are flowing one
after the other. The piano, played with an exquisite sensitivity
by Colette, has a solo role in diverse parts of the CD. Phil makes
an imaginative use of synthesizers and electric guitars, like an
alchemist of sound, emphasizing the mystic character that many
passages have. Besides Colette J. Burre and Phil J. Willett, other
artists have collaborated as performers: Brad A. Nutcher
(electronic drums and and MIDI programming), Richard Duvall, Jimmy
Zeranski and John McKay. The album is certainly being noticed in
the USA, as proved by the fact that the producers of "Something
Wonderful has Happened...but it was not in the news", a new,
popular documentary about the controversial theme of the circles
found on England crop fields, featured part of this music in their
soundtrack. Colette and Phil have both well-consolidated artistic
careers which have enriched their vision of music and which have
helped them get associated with important names of the musical
avantgarde of the last decades, as for instance George Winston or
Ancient Future, to name but a few.
JORGE MUNNSHE

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SALLY OLDFIELD:
"FLAMING STAR"
New World Music
The eight themes included in this album by Sally Oldfield once
more prove the creativity of this singer and songwriter, Mike
Oldfield's sister, born to a family with a sound tradition in the
musical panorama, who, like her brother, has succeeded in creating
a name for herself on her own merits..The lyrics in her latest
release are certainly spiritual, innovative, and the whole album
has a relaxing effect integrating various ethnic rhythms within
the World Music, vibes of dance music and ambient brush-strokes,
with a clear influence of New Age.In a few words, this is a CD
that will no doubt appeal to a wide audience.
SIMONETTA VALLI

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APEIRON & VASUDEVA:
"MIRROR IMAGES"
Spheric Music
Apeiron (Andreas Prinz) and Vasudeva (Udo Winkler) offer us a
relaxing, suggestive album with eight tracks where the rhythms
typical of New Age, the World Electronic Music and the most
intimate of minimalism brush-strokes meet to weave a wondrous
tapestry of dreamy soundscapes, ethereal atmospheres, and ethnic
touches such as those in the last theme of the CD, a peculiar
arrangement of a Nepalese folksong, thus creating an album that
takes the listener to experience a rich musical journey, a unique
creation, through unsuspected soundscapes.
MONTSERRAT ANDREU-MARIN

DOUCET & MIRAZ:
"RESONANCE"
Prudence
The six themes included in this album reflect the first
collaboration ever released of both visionary artists, Suzanne
Doucet and Gary Miraz. In this occasion they offer us a relaxing,
dreamy voyage though the soundscapes of New Age Music, a journey
that will no doubt appeal to the followers of this musical genre.
ARIELLE MALREAUX

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GOLANA:
"WALK BETWEEN WORLDS"
BSC Music
This inspired album created by Golana offers us ten themes where
soft melodies on Native American flutes are intertwined with sound
backgrounds typical of ambient, partly following the paths of
Terry Oldfield's style. Nevertheless, the artist is skilled in
creating his own style, within the field of New Instrumental
Music, which possesses a surprising spirituality. Golana no doubt
knows how to express his Native American heritage in his beautiful
compositions, yet keeping apart from the World Music realms.
MONTSERRAT ANDREU-MARIN

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TOM HEASLEY:
"WHERE THE EARTH MEETS THE SKY"
Hypnos
With his debut in the label Hypnos, tubist Heasley creates an
ambiece with space and atmospheric touches by means of his chosen
instrument, the tuba, thus innovating these genres with its sonic
richness, perhaps unusual yet entirely appropriate and unique in
its peculiar beauty to weave ambience soundscapes.
MILENA ALEXANDROVA

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STEPHANIE SANTE:
"IMMACULATE CONCEPTIONS"
Sante Music
The nine tracks in this album take the listener to embark into a
voyage to wondrous soundscapes by means of a skillful synthesis of
Melodic Space Music, Electronic Music, Ambient and Symphonic
musical universes, continuing her creative work as she did with
her first CD, "Into Light". In all, this is an album that will no
doubt attract the lovers of the alternative and avantgarde musics.
ARIADNA MARTIN

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DJAM KARET:
"NEW DARK AGE"
Cuneiform
The ten tracks included in this album soar from symphonic rock to
psychedelic rock, to progressive rock and ambient music creating
dark soundscapes and experimental brush strokes.
SIGRID BAUMANN

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JEFF PEARCE:
"THE LIGHT BEYOND"
Hypnos
This album, improvised with a guitar and electronic processing
boxes in realtime, includes 3 brief tracks accompanying an almost
44-minute theme that will no doubt appeal to the followers of
Atmospheric Music.
SIGRID BAUMANN

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GARY STADLER:
"FAIRY HEART MAGIC"
Prudence
The 12 songs of Celtic myth content in this album, where vocalist
Stephannie and Celtic harpist Lisa Lynne collaborate, combine
World Music with touches of New Age, romantic, ethereal, Pop and
Folk.
WINONA SIRTIS

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PAUL VNUCK Jr:
"SILENCE SPEAKS IN SHADOW"
Hypnos
This is the first solo album by Vnuck, which includes a long only
track lasting 73.58 minutes where the environmental sounds of a
cityscape are blended with a synth atmosphere.
SIMONETTA VALLI

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ZINGAIA:
"DANCERS OF TWILIGHT"
Prudence
The ten tracks included in this album create a peculiar fusion of
musical styles ranging from New Age to World Beat to Pop with soft
musical textures and ethereal female vocals that will no doubt
appeal to a wide audience.
EMMA DORS

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SPECIAL NEWS: ELECTROSHOCK FESTIVAL

TANGERINE DREAM (3): THE MACHINERY WORKS WITH UTTER SUCCESS. No
doubt, Tangerine Dream is a legendary band within the electronic
genre and the musical avantgarde in general. Throughout their long
trajectory, they have explored unknown areas in the music world,
and have contributed to create the basis for a wide variety of
current trends.

REVIEWS:
THOMAS GRUBERSKI: "SPACETIME ADVENTURES" Outline Records
REY: "HIDDEN VIBRATIONS"
MICHAEL JON FINK: "I HEAR IT IN THE RAIN" Cold Blue Music
MARTY WALKER: "DANCING ON WATER" Cold Blue Music

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===============A MESSAGE FROM ELECTROSHOCK FESTIVAL

Dear ladies & gentlemen!

I want to inform You that we are preparing the greatest Event in
the history of International modern music. This is the "First
Russian International Festival of Electronic, Electroacoustic,
Experimental & Avant-garde Music-Electroshock". It will take place
at the end of July'02 in St. Petersburg and last for 10 days.

More than 300 composers and musicians will participate in this
historic Event. Manuel Gottsching, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter
Moebius, Rick Wakeman, Francis Dhomont, Jorge Antunes, Edward
Artemiev, "Art Zoyd", Iasos, Constance Demby, Michel Huygen, Steve
Roach, Vidna Obmana, Jeff Grienke, Dom F. Scab, "T-Bass" are among
them. We also planning to invite Vangelis, Isao Tomita, Brian Eno,
Kitaro and Robert Fripp.

More information about the Festival could be found in our website:

http://www.electroshock.ru
(section "Festival")

We invite all organizations and firms for co-operation. We are
opened for any proposal.

President of the Festival:
Artemiy Artemiev (E-mail: eshock@...)

General Director of the Festival:
Alexander Kozyrev (E-mail: alexss_us@...)

===============

TANGERINE DREAM (3): THE MACHINERY WORKS WITH UTTER SUCCESS

No doubt, Tangerine Dream is a legendary band within the
electronic genre and the musical avantgarde in general. Throughout
their long trajectory, they have explored unknown areas in the
music world, and have contributed to create the basis for a wide
variety of current trends.

	 From 1975 to 1977, TD gathered an unprecedented success, while
at the same time increasing their level of activity both in the
release of new works and the organization of long international
tours. "Rubycon", "Ricochet", "Stratosfear" and "Encore" marked
this stage. Unlike many other avantgarde bands of the seventies
that had a short, unstable life due to the discontinued work of
their members, TD succeeded in maintaining their stability and
working with the sufficient maturity to open their own path in the
recording market and prosper.
	 In 1976, Franke created a huge recording studio (the premises
were an old cinema theater) near which he moved, and which he
equipped with sophisticated technology. This studio became, as
time went by, a frequent workplace for the band. There, several
albums were recorded, and most specially, movie soundtracks.
Though each member already had his own studio, Franke's was used
for the tasks that required the presence of all of them. In the
case of the soundtracks, more constricted by time deadlines than
the albums, it was convenient for them to work with more fluency.
In Franke's studio the main themes were composed and the basic
guidelines of the music were decided. Then, each member worked in
his own studio on different scenes. Froese's, sited in his own
home, was small although well supplied. Nowadays, that studio of
Franke's is hired to clients, as he owns other studios for his
private use.
	 From the albums of the period 1975-77, "Stratosfear" harvested
a popular success that crossed all borders of the followers of
electronic music, being widely listened to for several years in
discos, television ads and radio shows
	 The TD tour in 1977 throughout the USA awakened as well an
immense attraction among the American audience. As time went by,
TD moved to this country their main headquarters, partly due to
the undeniable advantages that for any artist having an
international  success means the fact of moving around such areas
as Los Angeles or Hollywood, the world HQ of the recording and
movie industry, and partly because of the excellent success their
music had there. An obvious example of the latter is the
soundtrack that they created for the exhibition in the USA of the
movie "Legend" specially commissioned to them, instead of the
official one created by prestigious composer Jerry Goldsmith.

SPARE PARTS FOR THE MACHINERY
	 In the eighties, TD started a new stage. After Peter Baumann
parting, the short-lived contribution of Steve Jolliffe and Klaus
Krieger in the band ("Cyclone"), and their temporary reduction to
a duo formed by Froese and Franke ("Force Majeure"), Johannes
Schmoelling joined the team.In the first half of the eighties, the
period during which Schmoelling remained with TD, the band
experienced a new growth spur, reaching markets where their
previous works had not arrived at. The re-releases of old albums
started to appear again and again.
	 The movie soundtrack activity initiated in the late seventies
bloomed. This is the era of spectacular car chases, strong doses
of violence, and in general, situations with action and characters
in extremely dangerous circumstances, all that with the vibrant
sound of the music by TD. From movies like "Thief" to series like
"Street Hawk", the task done by TD also begand a new trend,
nowadays a very common one, of the very electronic movie
soundtracks for violent action movies and thrillers. They broke
with the belief that this kind of soundtracks could only function
with science fiction productions(a genre that, unfortunately, has
not used electronic music as often as it should have done, rather
frequently choosing the most classical and anti-futuristic
orchestral sorts of music). Although among the productions with a
soundtrack by TD, those of science fiction have constituted an
important percentage, and there has not been any, up to now, with
the commercial weight of, for instance, "Blade Runner", which
allowed Vangelis, its author, to shine as a creator of futuristic
atmospheres and prove to a wide audience the immense capability of
evocation that electronic music can have.
	 During the eighties, TD became even more prolific in several
areas besides that of the soundtracks. More albums, more
compilations, more tours. The style, except for the soundtracks,
became more compatible with the tastes of a wide sector of the
audience, that is to say, it approached more and more the currents
of pop, without necessarily entering the electronic fortress
constituted by techno. The avalanche of new electronic artists
that spawned in the eighties, and the progressive utilization of
synthesizers on the part of any sort of musician to the point of
defiling the meaning of the adjective "electronic" applied to a
genre, caused the stylistic classification of TD in the musical
panorama to lose their unique character. The boredom on the part
of some sectors of the audience, especially the German, before the
boom of Space Music in the seventies, as well as the competition
imposed by the new geniuses of the genre, led them to stray from
this and other labels, advancing throughout an amnbiguous terrain,
between pop and the avantgarde. This evolution was already
undeniable during the second half of the eighties.
	 The new formation of TD in 1986 consisted of Froese, Franke
and Paul Haslinger. The stability of other members in the band
apart from Froese and Franke appeared to be a cronic problem since
the leaving of Baumann.
	 In the late eighties, TD had ascended to the general stardom
realms of music. Then it was equally obvious that they had well
differentiated groups of fans. Basically, two: those who love the
more cosmic and avantgarde side of the band, well exploited during
the seventies and part of the eighties, and those who, near to
pop, find in TD a new, innovative trend in them, materialized from
the mid eighties, and one that has monopolized the activity of TD
in the nineties. The first sector feels deceived because of the
change in the steering of the band, whereas the second, which
knows next to nothing about the past of the band, enjoys their
present line. An example of this dual sort of fans, that in the
nineties polarized to astonishing extremes, is the anecdote that
happened to Edgar one morning. At seven a.m. somebody called at
his door. It was an individual carrying the LP of a soundtrack by
TD. Without uttering as much as a single word, this person broke
the record on his knee and left. As it seems, it was a fan who had
loathed the album and felt betrayed or conned by Froese. That was
his picturesque yet rotund way to express this.

(By Jorge Munnshe)


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Christopher Franke

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Peter Baumann

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Johannes Schmoelling

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Paul Haslinger

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Steve Schroyder

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Steve Jolliffe

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Klaus Schulze

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Conrad Schnitzler

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Michael Hoenig

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REVIEWS:

THOMAS GRUBERSKI:
"SPACETIME ADVENTURES"
Outline Records
Gruberski surprises us with this work due to its freshness and
simplicity, without implying commerciality or simple ideas.
"Spacetime Adventures" is punctuated with melodies that have their
sounds altered, especially with delaying effects, throughout the
same theme, as well as the excellent insertion of complete or
partial silences from which the piece acquires new shades. The use
of string sounds dominates the track, though these are always
supported on lines of bass and sequences, at times obscure, at
other times with a great luminosity. Perhaps the less brilliant
point is percussion, even though it reaches a high degree of
ellaboration in "Motion Diameter", where its conjunction with the
bass is practically perfect. This is, in fact, a work that reminds
us, in more than one passage, of the Jarre of the seventies, where
the themes not exceedengly long and perfectly structured by means
of transitions formed a conceptual whole whose parts one could
also enjoy separately.
LAURA S. GARCIA

REY:
"HIDDEN VIBRATIONS"
Hidden Vibrations is a special release. A paused whisper that
impresses the listener. Most of this work is found within a Space
Music line, where there is rhythm yet very calm, very contained.
Distorted voices, sequences, bass passages are found in plenty...
yet combined in such a delicate way that they hardly dominate over
one another, so that in the end, what is perceived in a clearest
way is their harmony, their complementary nature. Thus a dense
ambience is created, without becoming oppressive, throughout which
sensations of a certain strain and disquiet flow. In this sense,
the climax is reached with Exploring Mountains and Behind the
walls, where all the elements of the composition are equally
fundamental. On the other hand, the piece called "Silver" breaks
the general dynamics of the album, as  in its sounds the listener
can appreciate traits from the techno pop of the eighties, though
these are utilized in a very personal manner. Rey has constructed
with all these aspects a very elaborate work of a style that
cannot be easily comparable to other existing ones.
LAURA S. GARCIA

MICHAEL JON FINK:
"I HEAR IT IN THE RAIN"
Cold Blue Music
In this album dominated by the piano, Michael Jon Fink has created
a series of meditative pieces, flowing along Classical Music,
Minimalism and Experimental.
EDUARDO FONTANA

MARTY WALKER:
"DANCING ON WATER"
Cold Blue Music
With production by Marty Walker and Jim Fox, this album of
clarinetist Marty Walker is a series of versions of pieces from
different composers (Michael Jon Fink, Daniel Lentz, Jim Fox,
Peter Garland, Michael Byron and Rick Cox), performed with the
personal style of Walker's.
EDUARDO FONTANA

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CONTENTS:

NEWS

INTERVIEW WITH DOM F. SCAB. Dom F. Scab is a brilliant
composer, capable of dealing with unsurpassed skill the
technological media available to him. By combining digital
sonorities with analog ones, he knows how to shape a personal
style of electronic music that links to the most thrilling
essence of the Space Sequencer Music

REVIEWS:
HALIM EL-DABH: "CROSSING INTO THE ELECTRIC MAGNETIC" Without Fear
Recordings
POINTLESS ORCHESTRA: "APPROACHING TOTALITY" Without Fear
Recordings
VARIOUS: "LIVES, A POINTLESS NIGHT OUT" Without Fear Recordings
JOHN LAKVEET: "SEQUENTIAGITE" Vagern Records

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"Accelerator", the new CD by Bjorn Lynne, is near to be released.
The master CD is pressed, and ready to go to the CD factory.

On November 30, Vasco Martins will be in Lisbon, Portugal, for a
"Lunario Perpetuo" concert, and a workshop about "music poetry".

====================

INTERVIEW WITH DOM F. SCAB

Dom F. Scab is a brilliant composer, capable of dealing with
unsurpassed skill the technological media available to him.
By combining digital sonorities with analog ones, he knows
how to shape a personal style of electronic music that links
to the most thrilling essence of the Space Sequencer Music
that so much enthusiasm awakened during the seventies to an
audience wishing for new sensations, and that nowadays
enthusiasms the new generations as well. His style,
nevertheless, has many elements typical of the eighties and
the nineties. He has been compared to the Tangerine Dream of
the early eighties, yet even if it will appeal to those who
enjoy the music this band used to make in that time, his
music turns out to be completely personal.


-Could you tell us how your vocation as a composer started?
And your interest in electronic music?

"I guess that with the purchase of my first electronic
instruments. I used to play the piano from a very early age,
but when I discovered the possibilities offered by
synthesizers , a new dimension opened before my eyes. By
then, and I am speaking about some eighteen or twenty years
ago, my favourite music was Symphonic Rock, and also some
Jazz. I came to discover Electronic Music as I was creating
my own. As soon as I first listened to "Stratosfear" of
Tangerine Dream, my vision of music changed. Then came
"Rubycon", "Phaedra", the works of Klaus Schulze, Vangelis,
etc... What fascinated me most of this style and form to
understand music was the creation of sounds that I had never
heard before, and of course, of this new way to develop the
composition without ties or tight constraints."

-Which are the main differences in your creative process when
you are working with other composers? Or is the process
basically the same as in your solo works?

"There are some differences. Working with other musicians is
somewhat like a marriage because one needs to know how and
when to concede, at times, and try to have some balance. In
my manner of working there is a fairly great component of
improvisation, so I try to see the contribution of a
colleague as a part of this chance that is created in every
process of improvisation. Anyway, at a studio level, I prefer
solo work, although I admit that when performing live, I'd
rather be surrounded by other musicians."

-Do you think there is a clear relationship between science
fiction and some given stylistic trends within music?

"I like Sci-Fi a lot and I believe that this feeling is
present in my music. Yet, Electronic Music is not necessarily
related to Science Fiction. What happens is, both concepts
have clear connotations of imagination, of abstraction. And
the sounds that can be extracted from a synthesizer can help
to re-create impossible landscapes, unreal ambiences,
etc...Don't forget that one of the best Sci-Fi soundtracks of
all times is basically constructed with synthesizers. I am
referring to "Blade Runner", of course."

-With "Innerseed" and "Binary Secrets", did you try to
communicate some message or to shape, in the form of music,
some of your ideas about the topics the titles of these
albums are related with, as well as the pieces included in
them?

"Yes, of course. There is a common nexus between both albums,
which is the relationship between technology and life,
between the machines and nature. This is what I have tried to
transmit. Although I must insist that one's proposal needn't
coincide with the imagination of the listener."

-Some instruments are already legendary in the history of
electronic music. You own one of them. Tell us what it is
that attracts you most, as a musician, of your Yamaha CS-80.

"No doubt, the enormous expresivity it has. You can play the
same note a million times, it always has a different shade.
This, together with its fabulous sound, makes of the CS80 a
unique instrument. There is another important ciscumstance
that is, not having midi and being unable to communicate with
the sequencer, I have to play and record it as I would do
with a piano, with all the impurities that there may be, and
this makes the composition to become all the more humanized.
Nowadays it is an essential part of my studio."

-Can you tell us some anecdote about your experience playing
live?

"I could tell you a great deal, yet perhaps the most
surrealist one happened during a concert together with Albert
Gimenez during the festivities of the Mercè in Catalunya
Square, in Barcelona (Spain). We had been hired, but what we
didn't know was, the rest of artistic performances before and
after ours were of a traditional folk kind, and the fact that
the audience was, in a vastly major part, senior citizens. It
was a disaster. The poor old people covered their ears and
made gestures with their hands, like when your grandma tells
you, "child... lower the volume of the television". When we
finished, an old man came to us, with a hallucinating face,
telling us he had found the concert truly wonderful, and
asking us where he could get our albums."

-What do you think about the attitude that some purists of
acoustic instruments hold before synthesizers, which they
find "lacking in human warmth" as well as inexpressive?

"In general, I have the impression that they show an attitude
of fear and rejection. I only coincide with them in the fact
that a synthesizer will never replace an acoustic instrument.
This is not its function, although manufacturers insist on
filling them with “presets” of pianos, guitars and trumpets.
The terrain a synthesizer must explore is the creation of
new, unreal sounds, sounds that do not intend to imitate
anything already known. And at a level of pure expressivity,
a synthesizer can be as expressive as an acoustic instrument.
Anyway, the coldness would lie in the composition itself."

-In your opinion, have the analogical and the digital sound
different personalities?

"Certainly, yet I am a true defender of the former, as it
tends to occur with some synthesists. In your previous
question you were inquiring about "purists", and in the
controversy analogic vs. digital these "purists" are present
as well, I think that, as you well say, they have different
personalities, and this circumstance makes them become wholly
complementary To emphasize the virtues of one you need to
combine it with the other."

-Tell us about the projects you are working on and your
future plans.

"In this moment I am waiting for my new CD, "A-con
(Analogical Confessions)", to be released. I guess it won't
be long for that. It somehow represents the continuation of
my previous work, "Binary Secrets",. and so I have chosen to
play a little with the title. I will surely start to work on
a new album soon, together with John Lakveet. With respect to
concerts, I am working now on a project in a trio format,
together with Odracir Lavid (midi guitars) and Jose Maria
Zyrya (drums and electronic percussion).On December 14 we
will be in the auditorium Barradas de L Hospitalet. It can
be, I believe, an interesting experiment that will combine
different styles, like say, electronic, jazz, world music..."

(Interview conducted by Jorge Munnshe)


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REVIEWS:

HALIM EL-DABH:
"CROSSING INTO THE ELECTRIC MAGNETIC"
Without Fear Recordings
The release of this album is a true event. Electronic composer
Halim El-Dabh, a pioneer among pioneers and a giant of the musical
avantgarde far longer than the creativity of many composers tends
to last, shows his talent with a CD brimming with amazing sounds,
constructions and atmospheres. This album gathers a collection of
pieces recorded from 1944 to 1974. Quite of them were recorded in
1959 at the legendary Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center,
where many of the fundamental concepts of electronic music were
being shaped. The astounding "Wire Recorder Piece" was recorded in
1944. Halim El-Dabh opened with this ghostly piece a door towards
an unexplored sonic region: the electronic universe. Using wire
recorders as a tool to compose music, he was able to create a
peculiar world, with eerie yet wondrous landscapes, as well as
zones of anguish and darkness. In pieces such as, for instance
"Venice" (1961) and "Pirouette" (1974), we can listen to the
almost impressionist work of Halim with the audio-art and the
sound collage. "Leyla Visitations" is an experimental opera, full
of complex sonic architectures. In "Electronic Fanfare", Halim had
the collaboration of Otto Luening. In all, this is an imaginative
album of electronic experimental music, with the philosophy of
exploring new sonic continents. Besides its artistic value, this
CD also has an unarguable importance as a firsthand sound witness
in the history of electronic music. Born in Egypt in 1921, El-Dabh
came to the United States in 1950, acquiring U.S. citizenship in
1961. He began to serve on the faculty of U.S. Kent State
University's Hugh A. Glauser School of Music in 1969. He has
received numerous awards and grants. His music has been featured
everywhere from prestigious cathedrals and recital halls to the
Giza Pyramids (his music for the Giza Pyramids is still performed
there on a daily basis); from major record labels to the
background of a James Bond film.
JORGE MUNNSHE

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POINTLESS ORCHESTRA:
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Without Fear Recordings
Pointless Orchestra develop their style with an absolute
confidence, without hesitations nor concessions, exploring
marginal and dark areas sited somewhere between Electroacoustic
Music, the most radical expression of Industrial, and Experimental
Chamber Music. The themes in "Approaching Totality" are remarkable
given their timeless nature, as well as their deep and often
somewhat bleak character. Pointless Orchestra draw with energic
brush-strokes a stage to let imagination run free towards life-
and-death situations. The instrumentation and the sonic effects
maintain a disquieting tone throughtout the album, contributing a
series of undescribable sensations for the listener. Pointless
Orchestra is made up of a constantly changing lineup of musicians
from many different musical backgrounds. The most regular members
are Mike Hovancsek, David Badagnani, Mark Allender and Jen
Singleton. The other musicians who have participated in the album
are: John Hajeski, Mike Foster, Paul Guerguerian, Panya
Roongruang, Anna Homler, Matt Turner, Blake Tyson, Amy Denio, Dan
Burke, Mark Klein, Joseph Celli, Z'ev. This album is highly
reccommended for those who love the most risky, experimental, deep
side of electronic music.
DOMINIQUE CHEVANT

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VARIOUS:
"LIVES, A POINTLESS NIGHT OUT"
Without Fear Recordings
This album is a live compilation of music from the Billy Tipton
Memorial Saxophone Quartet, Pointless Orchestra, New Family,
Siamese Twins, John Hajeski and Umbilical Trio. In their different
styles, many of these artists follow a given common path. Taking
the most experimental areas of Jazz as their main starting point,
the musicians break with many moulds and explore new musical
continents. Touches of New Music are present, and even come to
have a leading role in different parts of the album. This is the
case of such pieces as for instance "Improvisation Excerpt 1" and
"Improvisation Excerpt 2" by Siamese Twins. Likewise, certain
traits of World Music can be detected in some pieces, such as for
instance "Az Du Furst Avec" by the Billy  Tipton Memorial Saxophone
Quartet, and "Obligatory abstract piece" by the Pointless Orchestra.
There also are mysterious passages, including the theme "Yet
another abstract piece" by the Pointless Orchestra. Though there
are slow parts, much of the music has a lively rhythm. Prophetic
urban folklore, or oniric surrealism as real as life itself, the
fact is that the music has a pleasant freshness.
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

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JOHN LAKVEET:
"SEQUENTIAGITE"
Vagern Records
Energy, warmth and sensibility would perhaps be the most adequate
words to refer to this work of Space Sequencer Music. The CD has 6
tracks, 6 themes with a warmth of sound rarely seen within these
types of technology-based music. In the current alternative
musical panorama, there are artists that have something new to say
and others that don't. John Lakveet no doubt belong to the former.
>From the precise instant of the beginning of the album, we witness
a display of creative, sonic energy of a high degree. Powerful
rhythms based on complex sequencers, melodies brimming with
mystery and drama, and a turmoil of atmospheres, are the master
guidelines of a solid work that shows a display of fresh ideas,
enthusiasm and a great strength. The music has a certain unearthly
nature, yet at the same time it turns out to be so near to what is
human as our own emotions are. The artist utilizes electronics
with a great imagination and skill. The orchestrations of the
themes also prove his experience as a composer. The most
impressive piece in the album is, in my opinion, "Circumvolito".
This CD is a very commendable addition to the collection of the
fans of Space Sequencer Music as well as genres connected to this
one.
JORGE MUNNSHE

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CONTENTS:

NEWS

TANGERINE DREAM (2): THE GEAR STARTS. No doubt, Tangerine Dream is
a legendary band within the electronic genre and the musical
avantgarde in general. Throughout their long trajectory, they have
explored unknown areas in the music world, and have contributed to
create the basis for a wide variety of current trends.

REVIEWS:
NAUTILUS: "SOLAR MOON" Prudence / BSC Music
MATT BORGHI: "DECEMBER IMPRESSIONS"
ZINKL & ALQUIMIA: "UNDERWATER" Prudence / BSC Music

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Creation of Neuronium Records as a record company that will not
only release in the countries of the European Economic Community
new albums by Michel Huygen & Neuronium, but also music by other
artists, such as for instance the latest work of Constance Demby
or the latest work of Suzanne Ciani.

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TANGERINE DREAM (2): THE GEAR STARTS
No doubt, Tangerine Dream is a legendary band within the
electronic genre and the musical avantgarde in general. Throughout
their long trajectory, they have explored unknown areas in the
music world, and have contributed to create the basis for a wide
variety of current trends.

"Alpha Centauri", the second release under the signature of TD,
and the first one in the electronic wave, was the true start for
the band. This ceased to be a mere collective of guest artists
improvising without a given direction, to acquire their own
identity. In this first coherent album adventure, they were also
accompanied by Steve Schroyder, who soon after would leave the
band, plus some other performers. Franke was centered in the
synthesizer, taking care of string, wind and percussion
instruments as well. Froese played the guitar, bass and organ.

With "Alpha Centauri", TD appeared leading what became a new
genre: Space Music. The astronomical or science fiction references
present in the titles of their works clearly state their
precocious orientation. TD, however, would not be limited to this
genre, to which creation contributed with their own style, but
rather would encompass other trends or ideas, quite often of a
very personal nature.

With the parting of Schroyder, the two members of TD decided to
look for a third partner. Franke had a friend who was acquainted
to Peter Baumann. This was a young keyboardist who used to play at
a club in Berlin, and who, like Froese and Franke, was inspired by
surrealist painting. That was the first sign that there could be a
good stylistic understanding among the three of them. Froese
proposed him to join the band, and after a period playing together
and exchanging ideas, he became a member of the group for several
years.

Their next release, "Zeit", where Baumann already appeared,
advanced towards a more experimental, darker path.

"Atem" marked the transition towards a far more rhythmic
structure, which since then has constituted an  important element
in the "TD sound".

During a stay of Peter Baumann in Nepal, Froese and Franke
recorded some pieces, somewhat different from the line they were
following. These were unreleased until 1986, when they appeared as
an album under the name "Green Desert".

In 1973, the Rolling Stones sold a Big Modular Moog, a most bulky,
sophisticated synthesizer the size of a huge wardrobe for a
married couple, full of wires and connections, that arrived into
Germany through the label where TD released their albums. Nobody
in the studio had the faintest idea about how to make it work, and
there even wasn't an instruction leaflet. Franke took charge of
the task, although it cost him a lot of work to reach a sufficient
proficiency with the use of the device. According to what he
admitted once, he had to learn through trial and error.

Having attracted the interest of the then young label Virgin, TD
recorded thir next album there, "Phaedra". This meant the
international recognition of TD. A year later, the band was
awarded a Golden Disc. In "Phaedra", Franke already utilized the
modular synthesizer Moog. During his endless series of
experiments, he had discovered uses difficult to guess with a more
"rational" approach, as he states. Among other things, the Moog
allowed him to build a most complex rhythmic structure based on
the repetition of sequences of notes at a high speed. This
structure, so typical of the music by TD, was not a chance find,
but rather Froese, and specially Franke, had it in mind since
several years before. The former had occasionally used the echo
generated by a unit of effects to try create rhythmic patterns of
a certain complexity with a bass. As for Chris, since the sixties
he had been in contact with musics from different parts of the
world, finding positively invaluable the effect of trance of the
African tribal music from Ghana as well as the complexity of its
rhythm. This had led him to try explore the hypnotic concept of
rhythm by means of taped sonic loops, a rudimentary and
insufficient form of sequencer. With respect to these ethnic
influences that originated his revolutionary rhythmic ideas, one
must take into account the fact that in those times, the ethnic
musics were not accepted and difused as widely as they are now,
thus being very difficult indeed to have anyone drinking from them
with artistic aims. Just as Franke remembers, many people in their
environment were astonished at his interest in the musical forms
from other cultures. "African music? Oh! It's so primitive! You
should listen to Mozart or something similar!"

As he became the expert of the band, Franke  also helped Froese in
his first solo album, "Aqua". Chris contributed his knowledge with
the Big Modular Moog and the sequencer.

By that time, the kind of music done by TD, and the sort of
instruments they used, generated all manners of mistrust in many
areas of their society. For instance, soon after Franke purchased
his VCS 3, the band went to give a live concert outside Berlin. As
is already known, in those times of the two Germanies, Berlin was
in the middle of the Eastern side, so the citizens of the free
sector of the city had to go through the Communist Germany to go
to other cities. On the border, the inspectors examined with the
utmost attention all the instruments and luggage of the band.
When they opened one case carried by Franke, they discovered the
synthesizer VCS 3. Its aspect as a supersophisticated electronic
device. and the absence of a musical keyboard in the box, made
them believe that it could be anything but a musical instrument.
When Chris told them it was that, they became angry with him
believing he was laughing at them. The agents feared that the
artifact could be a bomb or a device for espionage purposes. They
were detained for three hours until the officers were convinced
that the artifact was not what they suspected. The same happened
as they left the Communist Germany on their way back.

Another remarkable event was the one that took place when TD gave
a concert at a cathedral. The blasphemous attitude with the
premises on the part of several of the fans, who filled the sacred
place with the smoke of pot, and who made statements such as "If
Jesus Christ came off his cross he would play with Tangerine Dream
because they are God", caused the church authorities to decree
that the band would never ever again perform within sacred ground.

(By Jorge Munnshe)


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REVIEWS:

NAUTILUS:
"SOLAR MOON"
Prudence / BSC Music
With the nine themes included in this album, the listener embarks
on a nice cosmic voyage to an imaginary Moon, depicted on the
cover of the CD in full detail. The music, however, is more
approppriately labelled within the genre of New Instrumental Music
or Ambient Music with some touch of pop, rather than true Space
Music, even if there are indeed some sound effects that give the
CD this slightly, yet eminently, Space Music feel. This album will
undoubtedly appeal to a wide audience.
MONTSERRAT ANDREU-MARIN

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MATT BORGHI:
"DECEMBER IMPRESSIONS"
At times disquieting, at times suggesting an interstellar voyage
throughout unknown regions of space, at times with meditative
passages, this is no doubt a CD that will no doubt appeal to the
followers of Ambient Music.
VICENTE GISPERT

ZINKL & ALQUIMIA:
"UNDERWATER"
Prudence / BSC Music
Zinkl and Alquimia decided to join their talents and their
artistic skills to create an album of innovative Pop. They
succeeded in creating a collection of pieces dominated by intense
melodies. The expressivity that Alquimia achieves with her voice
is remarkable indeed.
DEREK DOARN

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CONTENTS:

NEWS

INTERVIEW WITH JORGE RIESCO. Jorge Riesco is an artist with a wide
musical vision, whose music goes beyond the conventional, breaking
barriers among styles and communicating a wide range of feelings
and emotions.

REVIEWS:
RICHARD BONE: "TALES FROM THE INCANTINA" Indium / Quirkworks
Laboratory
DARSHAN AMBIENT: "DARSHAN AMBIENT:" Darshan Music
ANATOLY PERESELEGIN: "DOWNLOAD THE GOD" Electroshock Records

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Bjorn Lynne has decided to have a CD-sale with all profits going
to American Red Cross. Starting from September 26 and lasting
until October 6, all profits made from this CD-sale will go,
entirely, to American Red Cross donations. The following CDs are
included in the sale: "The Gods Awaken", "Wolves of the Gods",
"Wizard of the Winds", "Revive", "Witchwood", "Isms" (Divinorum),
"Talisman" (Divinorum). More information here:
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After the terrorist attacks of 11 September, Paul Winter's 22nd
Annual Winter Solstice Celebration in New York city (Cathedral of
St.John the Divine), celebrating the return of the light after the
longest night, will be all the more poignant. Paul Winter and
guest artists from around the world performing at 7.30pm on 13, 14
and 15 December and at 2pm on 15 December. You will find more
information at:
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The new album by Vangelis, "Mythodea", has been released.

The new Michel Huygen's solo album will be released in October-
November 2001.

Pascal Languirand, an imaginative renovator of electronic music
that became famous specially thanks to his theme "Living on Video"
(Trans-X) has achieved other wonderful work with the new Trans-X
album: "01.01.01". With a solid electronic basis, this CD is a
nice journey through melodies of a great emotional intensity and
rhythms that range from Techno to Pop.

12th Visual Music Festival of Lanzarote (Canary Islands, Spain)
Sep 29, 22h., Playa del Reducto - Mamadou Diabate
Sep 29, after M. Diabate, Playa del Reducto - Toure Kunda
Oct 11, 21h., Cueva de los Verdes - Maya Homburger & Barry Guy
Oct 12, 21h., Cueva de los Verdes - Eberhard Weber
Oct 13, 19h. Volcan del Cuervo - Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm

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INTERVIEW WITH JORGE RIESCO
By: Jorge Munnshe

Jorge Riesco is an artist with a wide musical vision, whose music
goes beyond the conventional, breaking barriers among styles and
communicating a wide range of feelings and emotions.

We could begin with a little history. How did your interest in
music start? And your vocation as a composer? Do you feel or have
you felt influenced by some artists or bands that in a way might
have contributed to your artistic education?

"My interest started more or less spontaneously when I was at high
school, maybe at age 13 or 14. By that time I asked my parents for
a guitar as a Christmas present. Since I didn't know how to play
it or even less tune it, from the first day I devoted my time to
composing. I do not consider myself to be a "fan" of any given
artist. I listen to a wide variety of music, some works I like
best, others less so. If I can, I purchase the scores of the works
I like and study them. I always learn something. Therefore, my
influences are probably varied but likewise diffuse."

Would you define your music in some way? Do you consider yourself
linked to any given musical trends or genres?

"I don't worry about being linked to any given musical genre. More
or less, I follow a style that could be labelled as progressive,
electronic or new age. Yet this could as well change."

How was your first album,"Jorge", elaborated? Was it the result of
the progressive accumulation of ideas during a long time or rather
the consequence of your creativity working during a given period
of time?

"It came when the sound cards appeared, and with them, the
possibility to play a voice to a score, record it, return to the
beginning, and as this voice sounded in an acceptable manner, play
a second voice, and a third, and a fourth. I had already tried to
record a voice on a cassette recorder, rewind and play the second
voice, but that sounded awful. I guess that anyone who has tried
to use a casette some time to play live music knows what I mean."

"For a time I enjoyed my sound card and slowly it occurred to me I
could release an album. When I decided on that, I bought a
synthesizer and a digital recorder and started to work. I thought
about doing a CD that lasted approximately for about an hour,
alternating slow and fast parts. Then I composed most of the music
for this album, although I also used some fragments from former
years. The total time invested in my project was approximately
eight months."

How did you get the idea of composing this album with poems by
Ismael Florito?

"Ismael participates with some frequency in poetic events. He
brought me a folder with the texts of his latest recital and asked
me to write some music to use as background. When I had the music
ready I showed it to him and then we thought we could release the
album. I selected some texts from his folder. We looked for some
readers and recorded their voices. Due to a series of adverse
circumstances the readers could not rehearse their parts
previously to the recording, so we got a spontaneous result. (As
far as I know, this is the only album to ever include a mistake
page)"

Do you compose following a given process?

"I utilize diverse processes. Here are some: Traditional
composition writing on a score sheet, improvisation, computer
generated melodies, and all sorts of tricks and variants I know
of, or that I may think of. I even use mistakes. Once I kept a
score in my computer. Then I touched a wrong set of sequence keys
and the score was completely deformed. And it had become far more
interesting than the original theme!"

Do you think that Internet is going to change the structure of the
musical industry? Do you believe that Internet is going to force
the most powerful sectors of the label industry to bet less for
the archifamous musician anchored on a comfortable commercial
value and more for such artists as those who risk their careers
doing new things?

"Internet allows any artist, however strange this may seem, to
become known at an international level. And probably it's just
this. I do not believe that any structure is going to change in
the short term. I guess that the most commercial music is going to
get a tremendous push."

Tell us about your current activities. Are you working on a new
album or preparing some other kind of project?

"I already have several fragments that I could record a new album
with, perhaps even two. I may release a new CD betweeen this fall
and winter."

You can listen to fragments of Jorge Riesco's albums here:

http://www.mp3.com/JorgeRiesco

Our review about the album "Jorge":

http://www.amazings.com/reviews/review0391.html

Our review about the album "Ismael Florito":

http://www.amazings.com/reviews/review0748.html

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exclusively selling via internet the CDROM "Hypnotika vol.1".
More information here:

http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0082.html

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http://www.neuronium.com/CDROM.htm

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REVIEWS:

RICHARD BONE:
"TALES FROM THE INCANTINA"
Indium / Quirkworks Laboratory
The music in this album consists of eleven themes inspired by the
spiritual philosophy, the religious beliefs and the ancient myths
of the Toltec peoples. A CD which can be considered a good example
of Ambient Music, the musical impressions the listener gets in
each one of these tracks create a relaxing, dreamlike soundscape
that will no doubt appeal to the lovers of this musical genre.
ARIADNA MARTIN.

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link:

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DARSHAN AMBIENT:
"DARSHAN AMBIENT:"
Darshan Music
The six themes included in this album are within the purest
Ambient genre, as the title on the cover suggests. This is truly
relaxing music, conducive to meditation or simply nice to listen
to. Thus aimed at a wide audience, this CD, which also shares
traits of New Instrumental Music, will no doubt appeal to a broad
range of listeners.
ARIELLE MALREAUX.

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ANATOLY PERESELEGIN:
"DOWNLOAD THE GOD"
Electroshock Records
There are six tracks in this CD, all of them inspired by the books
of the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel. Yet, the composer creates a
soundscape of an experimental nature, provocative, where the
traditional blends with minimalist touches, psychedelic traits,
wondrous passages, resulting in a disquieting music, all that
within an electroacoustic framework that will no doubt please the
followers of experimental paths at their purest.
SIGRID BAUMANN.

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CONTENTS:

NEWS

HYPNOTIKA, THE AUDIOVISUAL WORLD OF NEURONIUM. Michel Huygen
(founder of Neuronium) and painter Tomás Gilsanz (author of the
images that at times have accompanied the concerts of Neuronium,
and the creator of some of the album covers of the band) have
joined their talents to create a spectacular audiovisual CDROM,
"Hypnotika Vol.1", recently released in a restricted distribution
and with only a thousand copies, under the name of Neuronium and
released by the label Oniria International. Michel Huygen has told
us about this project during an interview.

REVIEWS:
PETER FROHMADER: "2001" Nekropolis Records
WHITE NOISE: "WHITE NOISE V - SOUND MIND" AMP Records
STANISLAV KREITCHI: "ANSIANA" Electroshock Records

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NEWS

Michel Huygen has granted to Amazing Sounds the privilege of
exclusively selling via internet the CDROM "Hypnotika vol.1".

Michel Huygen (Neuronium) has been working in an album with a
different style from his latest works, and whose idea occurred to
him in a quite sudden manner. This album is wholly rhythmic, in an
amusing key, far from the melodramatic as well as cosmic grandeur.
In it he widely utilizes ultrasynthetic sounds. It is very complex
with respect to timbric changes and is inspired in the style of
the night life typical of large cities. It is an energetic CD,
ideal to combat apathy.

The album "Hydro" by Neuronium is enjoying a great success both on
the part of the audience and on the part of specialized reviews.
In Brazil, for instance, it has been one of the main hits of
electronic music in general.

Anybody who orders the Bjorn Lynne's 3 CDs of fantasy style music
("Wizard of the Winds", "Wolves of the Gods" and "The Gods
Awaken") also gets an extra CD for free, which is the new
remastered version of his fantasy music CD "Witchwood". Secure
online order form (as well as details of how to order offline)
available on Bjorn Lynne's site:
http://www.lynnemusic.com
Read our article-interview about him here:
http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0051.html

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HYPNOTIKA, THE AUDIOVISUAL WORLD OF NEURONIUM
By Jorge Munnshe

Michel Huygen (founder of Neuronium) and painter Tomás Gilsanz
(author of the images that at times have accompanied the concerts
of Neuronium, and the creator of some of the album covers of the
band) have joined their talents to create a spectacular
audiovisual CDROM, "Hypnotika Vol.1", recently released in a
restricted distribution and with only a thousand copies, under the
name of Neuronium and released by the label Oniria International.
Michel Huygen has told us about this project during an interview.

Since the beginnings of electronic music and specially space
music, many have been the followers who are convinced about the
additional impact that this kind of musics has when they are
complemented with the adequate images. If a composition suggests
us a journey through unearthly universes, that sensation will be
enhanced if besides listening to the music we see the landscapes
that such a journey could bring to our eyes. The music videos
visually based upon that kind of images are scarce. Most just
gather live performances with a few surrealist images intertwined
with the live takes. This is why, when an audiovisual work whose
space character includes both the music and the image appears,
this no doubt attracts the attention of the followers of
avantgarde art.

"Alienikon" and "Aeternitas" are two movies (lasting about twenty
minutes each), based on this concept. Huygen and Gilsanz
respectively take care of the sound and the image.

The animations have been created by Gilsanz from paintings of his
digitalized by himself. All kinds of visual effects scroll one
after another. Landscapes passing before our eyes as if we were
overflying them. Supernatural apparitions. Ghosthly metamorphoses.
Wondrous worlds alien to anything known. And other effects hardly
describable with mere words. Gilsanz knows how to play with
psychology linked to visual perception. He makes, so to speak, us
see the invisible, tricks us with his pictorial magic making us
perceive things contrary to the laws of physics that govern the
behavior of light as well as our perception of it.

The nature of the visual content of these two movies has a strong
mystic component. The supernatural is present in almost all the
sequences. The textures are oniric, as if the animations were the
brain recordings of dreams. There also are remarkable psychedelic
touches.

The music created by Huygen that serves as the soundtrack for
these two movies acquires new shades and gathers new additional
meanings as it is listened to while the images are contemplated.
On his part, the visual universe of Gilsanz is enhanced by the
great emotional strength of the music by Huygen, which emphasizes
with a greater dramatic transcendence the different sequences.

The two long videoclips turn out to be ideal to let your mind fly
with complete freedom and disconnect from everyday life for a
while, something that no doubt many people look for in some moment
of the day. Aware of that, Huygen and Gilsanz decided to choose
the CDROM as the support for "Hypnotika" instead of the videotape,
so as to make it easier for the viewer to access this brief
evasion from the real world as one can use, to this end, for
instance, the same computer one has been working with for hours on
end, something more likely to be done during the worktime, rather
than having a television and VCR. Another reason for this choice
instead of the videotape was to take as much advantage as feasible
from the possibilities offered by the multimedia that the CDROM
provides, and in some way, support the artistic use of new audio
formats, as for instance MP3. Huygen thought of using the DVD, a
support he already works with, yet in the end he chose the CDROM
due to the fact that at present the amount of CDROM readers is
still quite larger than that of DVD reader units.

The use of the MP3 format has allowed, for example, to store in
Hypnotika" 70 minutes of music without pauses that adds to the one
acting as soundtrack for both movies.

The music contained in one or another way in this CDROM includes
stellar pieces of the entire career of Michel Huygen. Pure
electronic music in its most cosmic face, rising in its full space
splendour, with lively, fresh melodies, brimming with feelings, at
times introspective.

Michel once again impresses us with his graphic design for the
cover of the CDROM. An enigmatic figure of icy tones and diffused
contours, as if it were the gas of a nebula, presides the front
cover over a black background. As in other visual creations of
his, Huygen transmits some very definite meanings, yet he also
deliberately leaves an open door to the imagination of the
observer. In the first instance, he has re-created with great
subtlety two arms that shake hands around a beating heart, while
at the same time the entire design presents the aspect of a
spaceship. In the second instance, as many things as the
imagination of a person is able to produce can be likewise seen.
An alien face, the head of a magic serpent, the arm of a ghostly
old record player,or a supernatural lamp whose bulb emits
spiritual light, are some of the uncountable interpretations that
can stem from this image. The symbol in question is bound to
become an insignia for the oniric worlds of Michel Huygen since,
as he tells us, he is planning to use it as a logo for future
releases.

The work of Michel has extended as well to the programming of the
CDROM. For this project, there has also been the collaboration of
Toni Brunet as executive producer.

This CDROM is for a PC, and requires the following  minimal
technical characteristics in the equipment where it is going to be
used: Pentium II 300 Mhz, 64 MB RAM, DirectX 6.0, a CDROM reader
(minimum 4X) It is possible to copy the entire contents from the
CDROM to the hard disk to solve the jumping of images that is
caused by slow readers.

An important technical detail of this CDROM is that Huygen decided
that the units were manufactured with a special protection system
to prevent illegal copies. With respect to the controversies that
lately are abounding about the intellectual property of music in
internet, the MP3 format, or the trajectory followed by Napster,
Huygen defends the good use of any new technology, as he shows n
his inclusion of 70 minutes of music in the MP3 format within
"Hypnotika Vol. 1". Yet he believes that the pretension to have
all music forcibly made to run freely in the web is absurd, since,
as is logical, this would attack musical creativity while forcing
the artists to stop being artists to take care of other jobs to be
able to eat. "I would like to see how those who defend this
gratuity would react if someone intended for them that they earned
no money at all from their jobs from which they earn they living
now" comments Huygen.

Michel Huygen has granted to Amazing Sounds the privilege of
exclusively selling via internet this CDROM.

The selling price is $40.75 or 5500 pesetas or 34 euros plus
postage and mailing. The orders can be made to:

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applicable to the other CDs distributed by Amazing Sounds, a list
of which is available here:

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REVIEWS:

PETER FROHMADER:
"2001"
Nekropolis Records
With a first hearing the listener already perceives the effort and
the intentionality there are behind this work. In successive
hearings, the range of this album appears in all its greatness.
Peter Frohmader surprises us once again with an immersion into
unknown abysses in the ocean of the musical avantgarde. He
utilizes electronics with a great imagination and skill, drawing
with energic brush-strokes a stage to let imagination run free
towards life-and-death situations. Psychedelic melodies, powerful
rhythms and oniric ambiences are some of the ingredients Frohmader
constructs his album with. "2001" is, no doubt, one of the most
amazing works by Frohmader, a work that cannot leave any listener
unconcerned.
JORGE MUNNSHE

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have to use this link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/155542/thesciencebookbo

WHITE NOISE:
"WHITE NOISE V - SOUND MIND"
AMP Records
David Vorhaus, the artist who shaped White Noise's style, offer us
a work of electronic music of a deeply personal nature, with
passages which could be labelled within Synth-Pop and others
nearer to the experimental music. Vorhaus, pioneer of sound
technology and inventor of the Kaleidophon electronic musical
instrument, proves in this CD that he is an experienced musician
with excellent skills. He utilizes electronics with a great
imagination.
EDGAR KOGLER

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have to use this link:

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STANISLAV KREITCHI:
"ANSIANA"
Electroshock Records
Within the purest style of electronic experimental music, Kreitchi
presents in this album eight themes where ANS synthesizers are
intertwined with the acoustic instrument called "Ovaloid", built
by Russian designer Viatcheslav Kolleychouck. The music turns out
to be disquieting, bleak, withquasi-vocal sound effects that seem
to come from the Otherworld, and terrifying melodies.
MILENA ALEXANDROVA.

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CONTENTS:

TANGERINE DREAM (1): THE BUILDERS OF THE MACHINE. No doubt,
Tangerine Dream is a legendary band within the electronic genre
and the musical avantgarde in general. Throughout their long
trajectory, they have explored unknown areas in the music world,
and have contributed to create the basis for a wide variety of
current trends.

REVIEWS:
EDWARD ARTEMIEV: "A BOOK OF IMPRESSIONS" Electroshock Records
ARTEMIY ARTEMIEV: "FORGOTTEN THEMES" Electroshock Records
JON SHEFFIELD: "CALVES VALVES" Sparkling Beatnik Records

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us about how to purchase some of the CDs reviewed in our magazine.
We have a mailorder service in order to improve the distribution
of some of these records wanted by our readers. You can now mail
order some of these CDs.

Some of the available CDs:

ALBERT GIMENEZ. The composer and guitarist Albert Giménez began
his musical career in the '70s. He was a member of the bands Suck
Electronic, Macromassa and Neuronium. In 1979 he turned from
electric to classical guitar, releasing during the following years
different records with his own compositions for soloist acoustic
guitar, and playing in numerous concert tours. In 1995 he returned
to electric guitar so as to continue his research in the new
electronic frontiers that this instrument has to offer.
ALBERT GIMENEZ: "MOSDUM"
ALBERT GIMENEZ: "ZIV"
ALBERT GIMENEZ: "MARE NOSTRUM"

ALBERT GIMENEZ & DOM F. SCAB: "COSMIC NI" Impresive psychedelic
music.

ALBERT REMI: "MICROBIOS,CRISPACIONES, ILUSIONES"
ALBERT REMI: "REMISCOPE"
ALBERT REMI: "SOMBRAS Y DESOLACION"

ALFONSO VILALLONGA: "CÁBALA Y DANZA"

ALMA TADEMA: "DARK"

AT-MOOSS
The band At-Mooss is formed by Joseph Loibant, Anthony Seagarr,
John Lakveet and Dom F. Scab. Loibant is the most veteran musician
in the band. He began to research the sonic possibilities of
synthesizers in the 1970s. He was a member of the band Programa
together with Carlos Guirao (ex-member of Neuronium) and José M.
Ciria.
AT-MOOSS: "MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS 1"
AT-MOOSS: "MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS 2"
AT-MOOSS: "MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS 3"

BRUNO SANFILIPPO: "SONS OF THE LIGHT"
BRUNO SANFILIPPO: "THE NEW KINGDOM"
BRUNO SANFILIPPO: "SUITE PATAGONIA"
BRUNO SANFILIPPO: "SOLEMNIS"

DOM F. SCAB. Synthesist Dom F. Scab began a solo career as a
composer in 1998. His music has gotten airplay on such famous
radio programs like Echoes (in the USA).Scab has composed some
soundtracks. He has collaborated with several musicians, among
them Albert Giménez (ex-member of Neuronium).
DOM F. SCAB: "INNERSEED"
DOM F. SCAB: "BINARY SECRETS"

FRANK VAN BOGAERT: "DOCKING" This album contains some of the most
beautiful music that this artist has written to date. 11 themes
with a warmth of sound rarely seen within electronic music. Van
Bogaert is one of the most respected European electronic
musicians.

HIROSHI KOBAYASHI: "EMOTION"
HIROSHI KOBAYASHI: "SEVEN ENCANTATIONS"

IL GRAN TEATRO AMARO: "PIAZZA ORPHELINS"

IURY LECH. Iury Lech is a composer, movie maker and writer. He
usually joins all these aspects in his artistic works. Born in
1958 in an immigrant family from Ukraine, he began his artistic
career by the mid 1970s. By the late '80s he began to release his
albums. His innovative electronic music goes beyond the
conventional, surpassing even the frontiers of many styles
(Ambient, Trance, Dark, Psychedelic, Space) that already are
avantgarde by themselves.
IURY LECH: "A BITE IN THE COMMON SENSE"
IURY LECH: "SERIAL CASTRATI"
IURY LECH: "ASPERSIONS BY INSTINCT" (2CD)
IURY LECH: "VICTIMa OF DUNCEing"

JAKOB DRAMINSKY : "DREAMJINGLES"
JAKOB DRAMINSKY: "AT THE GALLERY"
JAKOB DRAMINSKY: "ENLAND SOLDAD DAGBOG"
JAKOB DRAMINSKY: "MEMORY"

JORGEN TELLER: "MY INNER EAR"

JOSEPH LOIBANT. In the music by Joseph Loibant, the founder of the
band At-Mooss, a variety of synthesizers is mixed in a very
personal manner. The style is agile, rhythmic, based on sequencers
and percussion, but with a modern approach. He succeeds in
generating the magic of the mythical cosmic trend of the seventies
and at the same time flow within the most avantgarde sectors of
current electronic Pop.
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "SINE"
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "PULSE"
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "RANDOM"
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "NUCLEUS"
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "REGRESSION ALPHA"
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "FIRE COMET"

JUAN CARLOS GARCIA: "CELESTIAL"
JUAN CARLOS GARCIA: "HADAS"
JUAN CARLOS GARCIA: "THE LEGEND OF THE SOLAR ANGELS"
JUAN CARLOS GARCIA: "THE LUMINOUS PRESENCE" The artist has
succeeded in transmitting intense feelings with this album of
cosmic New Age Music, full of poetry and beauty, which leads the
listener to a world of wondrous soundscapes by means of the
masterful use of synthesizers.

KONIC THTR: "OOZE"

LAKVEET & SCAB: "SILENT MARS" John Lakveet & Dom F. Scab have
collaborated together in the creation of an album that explores
their common interests in the most cosmic sector of electronic
music. "Silent Mars" is one of these works that prove that
electronic music which can be labelled as Space Music can sound
surprisingly warm and near to the listener, like a soundtrack for
life.

MC2: ·"ENERGY" A magnificient release by the band MC2 of a Space
Sequencer style, with powerful rhythms and dense atmospheres. Very
elaborated.

MOEBIUS: "ERSATZ II"

ORIOL PERUCHO: "INSULTO,LE MULTARON..."
ORIOL PERUCHO: "ZAPPING CD"

PASCAL COMELADE: "EL PRIMITIVISMO"
PASCAL COMELADE: "TRAFFIC D´ABSTRACTION"
PASCAL COMELADE: "ZUMZUM KA"

PAU RIBA & PERUCHO´S: "ASTAROT UNIVERSDHERBA"

PIDGINS: "THE FREAK FURNITURES"

PLASTHA'S MOUNTAGE: "PROTOPLASTHA´S" Joss & Loop , Ben Howard Jr.
, and Panik have created in this CD the beginnings of a series
that explores with great imagination and power the border areas
among Trance, Techno and electronic Dance. Unusual strength and
dynamics, a dense rhythm, latest generation synthesizers used in a
creative, innovative way, they all contribute to each theme in
this compact disk new expectations that hold the interest from the
beginning to the end.

PROGRAM@: "ASHES" The legendary band Programa@ return with a
wonderful production, after a long period of silence. The music,
eminently electronic, makes deep incursions into Techno, Synth-
Pop, Space Sequencer, and New Instrumental Music. "Ashes" shows
that electronic music has not abandoned the strength that
characterized it in the beginning.

RAEO: "ADIOS JUPITER"
RAEO: "BODY LOOPS"

VICTOR SIERRA: "KHAMSIN´"

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TANGERINE DREAM (1): THE BUILDERS OF THE MACHINE

No doubt, Tangerine Dream is a legendary band within the
electronic genre and the musical avantgarde in general. Throughout
their long trajectory, they have explored unknown areas in the
music world, and have contributed to create the basis for a wide
variety of current trends.

	 Tangerine Dream could be described as a gigantic machinery, a
cyclopean engine, a factory of electronic sensations, cosmic
emotions, and futuristic feelings.Already started a quarter of a
century ago, this machinery has experienced various phases in its
functioning, numerous changes in the staff controlling it, and all
sorts of avatars.
	 The peculiar style of TD has shaped the label "Tangerine Dream
Sound", which defines their innovative approach to musical
creativity. On the other hand, either within this main stylistic
path, or getting away from it, as has happened lately, the band
has encompassed an important variety of orientations, thus
reaching different kinds of fans, from the followers of the most
cosmic trends, to those who enjoy the most disco paths, to the
lovers of experimental ways, the sinister, the heavy or
relaxation.
	 The style by TD in most of their approaches does not get out
of fashion as it almost always develops either outside current
trends or far forward. A good number of their older musical ideas
continues to be avantgarde even after many years.

	 Among the various members of Tangerine Dream, two names, both
of them German, are the most remarkable ones due to the scope of
their contribution: Edgar Froese, the current only founding
member, and Christopher Franke, seventeen years in the band.
	 Froese, born in 1944, started his way into the music scene
during his time as a student of painting and sculpture at the
Academy of the Arts in West Berlin. During those years (1965 to
1969), he led the rock band The Ones and was involved in other
activities.
	 His interest in paintings led him to visit Salvador Dalí on
the summer of 1966. Fascinated by the work of this genius of
surrealism, his stay in Cadaqués together with him caused him to
consider new artistic paths. Most concretely, he caressed the idea
of trying to make with music something similar to what Dalí was
doing with painting.
	 After having released a single, The Ones disbanded. Among
other things, the artistic ideas Edgar had were no longer fitting
those of the other members of the band, since he wholly favored
the experimental trends. In 1967, after a stay in Paris, he
founded a new band called Minus Plus, which months later would
become Tangerine Dream.
	 Christoph (Christopher) Franke, born in 1953, grew up in an
eminently musical environment. With a mother who was a violin
teacher and a father plus an elder sister who could play other
instruments, the musical influence he received caused him to
become interested in studying the violin at age six. This lasted
for about a couple of years, at the end of which he chose the
trumpet, a more aggressive instrument. He received lessons in the
trumpet for a long time. Nevertheless, his teacher was old-
fashioned, followed the orthodox paths of the classical styles as
a sacred way, and his vision of how a musician was supposed to be
was that of a perfectly integrated piece of machinery into the
mechanism of an orchestra. The views of his professor caused the
fifteen-year-old Christopher to become aggressively rebellious,
which led him to desperately seek new musical paths, and try to
break all the standard rules and constraints. This was transmitted
as well to moral and political issues, an attitude typical of
several youngsters of the times, immersed in the effeverscence of
rock as a new musical style as well as a special lifestyle. By
then, Franke founded the band Agitation Free, whose name already
shows in an explicit way the controversial, defying path of the
project. Together with Lutz Ulbritz (who later would become a
member of Ashra Tempel) and others, he played in a provocative
style, quite close to punk. At the same time, given the
relationship with his parents, he played classical music.Both
opposed views would cause him to develop an avantgarde fusion of
concepts.
	 The rehearsals of Agitation Free were performed in the cellar
of Franke's parents in the beginning. But the amount of noise they
caused and the aggressive, irritating style of their music caused
his mother to find them a studio only for them at a local academy
of music. There, one of the managers became interested in their
experimental work and gave them the chance to use the first
electronic devices the academy had purchased. This was the first
contact of Christopher's with the young electronic universe.
Technically assisted by their patron, Franke and his friends in
Agitation Free developed new ideas in the growing electronic
studio of the academy.
	 It didn't take long for the avantgarde environments in Berlin
to get wind of the magnificient potential the studio could offer
to the most innovative musical ideas. Franke supported the academy
in opening the doors of their studio to other young artists. Edgar
Froese, Manuel Gotttsching  and more musicians from Berlin began
then to go there.
	 It was there where Edgar and Christopher met. Both coincided
in their desire to explore new musical horizons, beyond those of
rock. Also, both suffered from problems with their respective
bands. One of the members of Agitation Free became a drug addict.
The project of Tangerine Dream couldn't reach the goals Froese
expected, with a chaotic coming and going of members. The
relationship between both musicians became tighter. For instance,
Agitation Free organized some concerts where not only they
performed, but also contracted Froese and his embryo of Tangerine
Dream for a performance. Likewise, AF took care of all the details
related to the preparation and advertising of this concert by TD.
After that, and the desertion of all the members of TD soon after
the release of a first experimental rock album ("Electronic
Meditation") under the signature of TD, Edgar and Christopher
joined their efforts to give the definitive impulse to their
innovative musical concepts.
	 Meanwhile, Klaus Schulze, who had collaborated in the
percussion in this first LP by TD, then leaving the band, founded
Ashra Tempel with Manuel Gotttsching and Hartmut Enke. Klaus would
soon abandon this new band to start a prolific solo career. Conrad
Schnitzler, who had oscillated between the bands TD and Cluster,
definitely left TD after recording "Electronic Meditation", and
soon after he began a charismatic solo career.
	 The new Tangerine Dream was consolidated around Froese and
Franke, in a collaboration that would last for two decades. The
new, more electronic approach was marked by the synthesizer
Christopher purchased in England, a VCS 3 of the British firm EMS,
one of the pioneers in selling to the market the first
manufactured synthesizers.Due to the fact that Franke's money was
not enough for more, he had to smuggle the instrument to Germany;
otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to pay for the expensive
custom duty taxes.
	 Franke had at last the device he needed to shape his musical
ideas. When he showed the potential of the synthesizer to Froese,
he also was convinced that it was the instrument which was most
convenient to their artistic approaches, and was thus used for the
new compositions by TD.

(By Jorge Munnshe)


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REVIEWS:

EDWARD ARTEMIEV:
"A BOOK OF IMPRESSIONS"
Electroshock Records
This album gathers 10 pieces from 1975 to 1996. They are composed
by Edward Artemiev, a pioneer among pioneers and a giant of the
musical avantgarde far longer than the creativity of many
composers tends to last. Besides its artistic value, this CD also
has an unarguable importance as a firsthand sound witness in the
history of electronic music. Quite a lot of the pieces are
experimental, showing the most risky aspects of Artemiev's style.
We can enjoy several of his most legendary pieces, as for example
"Peregrini" (1975), an inspired composition where the composer
proved his great imagination by creating an impressive electronic
music, with powerful sequencers, stormy atmospheres, and  melodies
of a great emotional intensity. All tracks were remixed by Edward
Artemiev in 2000.
JORGE MUNNSHE

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ARTEMIY ARTEMIEV:
"FORGOTTEN THEMES"
Electroshock Records
Artemiy Artemiev, the son of famous electronic music composer
Edward Artemiev, is another artist with a noteworthy work in the
field of electronic music. This CD includes electronic pieces
composed by him between 1988 and 1997. Quite a number of the
distinct aspects in Artemiy Artemiev's style appear in this
compilation: from the Classical airs, to the dynamic vein nearing
to Synth-Pop, Space Sequencer and Ambient, all that dominated by
the powerful presence of synthesizers. They are pieces of a
complex conception, yet at the same time they are easy to listen
to. The most impressive composition in the album is, in my
opinion, the theme from motion picture "The Fan", of a epic air
and a great beauty. There also are some compositions of a clear
romantic flair, such as "Night City". In a few words, this is a
work that will not leave us indifferent to it.
JORGE MUNNSHE

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JON SHEFFIELD:
"CALVES VALVES"
Sparkling Beatnik Records
The fifteen tracks in this album present us a varied soundscape
where the listener voyages from suggested New Age melodies to
experimental passages, with a dominance of Space Music, some
barely heard pop touches, very stressed rhythms at times, with a
powerful percussive beat and electronic sound effects within the
purest of experimental paths.
MILENA ALEXANDROVA.

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CONTENTS:

NEWS

THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC IN EASTERN EUROPE Chapter 7. This mini-series
is a brief approach to the electronic music and innovative /
alternative styles in Eastern Europe.

REVIEWS:
THOMAS RONKIN: "WITHIN; DISTANCE" Tristissima Records
THOMAS RONKIN: "SYMMETRIC" Tristissima Records
PERPETUAL OCEAN: "HOUDINI"
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The new album by Trans-X is "01.01.01". More information here:

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Jean Michel Jarre's acclaimed album "Concerts In China" is now
available again on CD and Mini-Disc. More information here:

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On July 28, the band Dweller at the Threshold will give a live
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THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC IN EASTERN EUROPE
Chapter 7

It is impossible to attempt to compress the musical universe
enclosed behind the iron curtain by decades in a single mini-
series. A basic approach to the reality of the musical avantgarde
in each one of the multiple, rich cultures of this great unknown
which is Eastern Europe, nowadays in full development, would need
the making of a book. Therefore, this mini-series will only be a
brief vision, perforce incomplete, of this avantgarde style
sustained on cultures maybe as ancient or even more so than those
in the rest of Europe.

RUMANIA
	 Iannis Xenakis is a well known musician of a Greek origin born
in Rumania, who stayed there until the end of World War II, and
settled in Paris since then.
	 Less well known are, on the other hand, some very important
artists, as for instance Iancu Dumitrescu, an innovative New Music
composer whose albums have quite a noteworthy international
distribution. Or Horatiu Radulescu, an electroacoustic musician
who has recorded some of his works at the IRCAM.
	 Mention must be made as well of Phoenix, a veteran band that
combines folklore, Rock and experimentation.

BULGARIA
	 Apart from the Female State Choir of Bulgaria, who achieved
recognition in some countries with the release of their album
"Mysteres" (where synthesizers and computers appear), there are
not many artists with international prestige. Partly, this is due
to the fact that synthesizers, a key element to make innovative
music, were not available in this country until the late 1970s.
	 The pioneer of synthesizers in Bulgaria was Simo Lazarov,
practising some sort of computer Jazz. Also important is the task
by Vesselin Nikolov, an artist who has been very good at combining
ethnic and avantgarde musics. Other artists to be taken into
account are Krasimir Timov, Vladimir Ivanoff, Sergej Djokanov,
Anguel Kotev, Vladimir Djambasov, Danail Draganov, Lubomir Denew
and the band Dilemma.

THE EX-YUGOSLAVIA
	 Before the war, Yugoslavia was one of the Eastern European
nations with a wealthier scene of alternative musics. Little by
little, this scene is being recovered, yet, as is logical, things
will never be the same again.

-BOSNIA
Born and brought up in Bosnia, Mladen Milicevic worked for the
entire Yugoslavia as a movie soundtrack composer. He was awarded
several prizes in festivals in Serbia, Croatia, France, and Sweden
(where he stayed for a month sponsored by the Institute of
Electroacoustic Music of Stockholm). He has performed in Ukraine,
Croatia, Czechoslovakia, the United States, Greece, Costa Rica,
Switzerland, France, Denmark, and Italy. He has taught in Bosnia
and the United States. He has also made soundtracks for the
cinema, radio, television and theatre. When I contacted him for
the first time, he had recently settled in the United States, as a
professor of the University of South Carolina. In a contact by
mail I had with him during the war, he was very sad indeed. It is
logical. Looking at his  professional and personal trajectory in
the former Yugoslavia one can understand that this senseless war
has hurt him in more than one sense.

-CROATIA
	 Stanko Juzbasic is an electroacoustic musician who, when I got
news from him, was settled in Zagreb. He participated in some
international festivals and was involved with the Musical Biennial
of this city.

-OTHER ARTISTS FROM THE EX-YUGOSLAVIA
	 Other noteworthy artists from the ex-Yugoslavia are:
	 Composer Zagorka Zivkovic, settled in Sweden, who besides
composing movie soundtracks has also worked in the written press
and the radio.
	 Laza Ristovski, an ex-keyboardist of the band Smak, whose solo
works are characterized by the use of the organ.
	 Boris Kovac, a virtuoso of World Music.
	 The ensemble Acezantez, devoted to ethnic fusion, sonic
collage and electronic experimentation.

-THE TERRIBLE DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE WAR IN YUGOSLAVIA
	 During this cruel war, numerous musicians settled in the
former Yugoslavia, who being fellow citizens became members of
warring peoples and communities, have disappeared or their track
was lost.
	 After the end of the war, contact with several of them has
been re-established, although the continuation of hostilites in
different areas makes it rather difficult to recover some of the
former contacts (the most common case is that of the people who
left their home towns and now have trouble to come back to their
old homes). Yet there are some of these musicians whose fate is
unknown and whose personal circumstances prior to the beginning of
the war seem to suggest a personal tragedy. In this sense, I will
be grateful for any information forwarded to me about the current
situation of alternative musicians from the former Yugoslavia.
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OTHER MUSICIANS RELATED TO EASTERN EUROPE
	 Finally, a brief reference to two musicians:
	 In the curriculum vitae that Sergio Barroso sent me he says:
"Canadian composer and synthesist". It is sad that an artist must
reject his roots so as to keep the freedom of his art. This Cuban
musician studied composition in Cuba and Czechoslovakia,
microtonal composition in Czechoslovakia, and computer music in
the United States. He has received awards in Cuba, Bulgaria,
Colombia and France. He made an electroacoustic soundtrack for a
version of "La Casa de Bernarda Alba" performed in Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Nicaragua, Eastern Germany, Finland, the United
States, Mexico and Spain. He has performed his works in numerous
countries. He has released his albums in Russia, Canada, Cuba and
France, among other countries. He was appointed for high posts at
the University  of La Habana and the Cuban Ministry of Culture. In
1980 he left his country of origin and cut any professional links
with it.
	 Iury Lech has settled in Spain, after having remained in the
United States for some time. The son of Ukrainian immigrants, he
is a musician, poet and movie maker who has a global vision of
art. Having studied the piano and Theatrical Direction, he has
released several music albums, where he shapes his ideas of global
Art, which he described to me in the musical mode as "A personal
quest for a way of making music not lacking in impressionist
roots". Some of his videoclips have been aired on TVE. He was
selected within the area of literature for the Biennial Barcelona-
87 / Bolonia-88.  He alternates his artistic activity with the
translation of literature and the reviewing of books.

As a final note to this series of articles, I am very grateful to
the musicians who forwarded me information about themselves when
we got in contact, which has been the basis for this series. I am
honored for their confidence in me.

(By Jorge Munnshe)

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Boris Kovac
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THOMAS RONKIN:
"WITHIN; DISTANCE"
Tristissima Records
Thomas Ronkin has created a thrilling sonic adventure in this
album. The work has passages where the synthesizers create dense,
powerful atmospheres. Other parts possess a great melodic beauty
with romantic airs. There are slow pieces, and other rhythmic
ones. The music has Ambient, Minimalist, New Instrumental and also
Space Sequencer elements skilfully fused together. The most
impressive theme in the album is, in my opinion, "Alla Tedesca",
of a mysterious air, a great beauty and powerful sequencers.
EDGAR KOGLER

THOMAS RONKIN:
"SYMMETRIC"
Tristissima Records
In this double CD, the listener will find eleven themes full of
mysticism, with melodies that in some occasions tend to be of a
melodic romanticism, while in other instances they have an
enigmatic, or even a dark air. Some pieces are slow, but others
turn out to have a quite energetic rhythm. The music is
characterized by a powerful use of synthesizers and sequencers.
EDGAR KOGLER

PERPETUAL OCEAN:
"HOUDINI"
The style of this CD combines the most risky aspects of Industrial
and Gothic Music with Ambient. The vocals are an important element
in this work.
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

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A PRODUCE:
"SMILE ON THE VOID"
Hypnos
The seven tracks that constitute this album are inspired by the
novel of the same title by Stuart Gordon, where myth and the
modern world meet, weaving a tapestry ranging from restlessness to
dream to a strange awakening, as suggested by the music itself,
since it turns out to be mysterious, cosmic, oniric, mystic, at
times dark, and undoubtedly suggestive of a strange world in the
extreme.
MONTSERRAT ANDREU-MARIN

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CONTENTS:

NEWS

REVIEWS:
DOM F. SCAB: "BINARY SECRETS" Groove
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "PULSE" At-Mooss Records
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "RANDOM" At-Mooss Records
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "NUCLEUS" At-Mooss Records
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "REGRESSION ALPHA" At-Mooss Records
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "FIRE COMET" At-Mooss Records
IURY LECH: "VICTIMa OF DUNCEing" Insolit
ERIK WOLLO: "WIND JOURNEY" Monumental Records
MIDNIGHT SYNDICATE: "GATES OF DELIRIUM" Linfaldia Records
GLEISBERG: "FRAGILE FAIRYTALES" Prudence / BSC
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Neuronium is releasing a PC Multimedia CD ROM with two movies
featuring the paintings of Tomás C.Gislanz in digital movements,
with Michel Huygen 's music during 40 minutes, plus 70 minutes of
non stop cosmic music in MP3, all in just one CD. This release
will be available only and exclusively from Neuronium More
information here:

http://www.neuronium.com

After eight and a half years of working on his album, on May 24
Iasos completed the final piece of music for "Realms of Light",
his new CD.

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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 :

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(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)

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REVIEWS:

DOM F. SCAB:
"BINARY SECRETS"
Groove
With the strength of a painter from the Renaissance,in this album,
Dom F. Scab embarks into an exciting adventure through the roaring
waters of the most risky trends in the Space Sequencer Music. The
cover and the title of the CD certainly suggest the nature of the
music. Presented, in a way, as an electronic symphony where the
digital and the analogic give flesh to the main characters of a
history with a high dramatic intensity, the allegories of a union
between the organic and the cybernetic are musically translated
into a collection of pieces with a different dramatic tension, as
if they were the scenes of a movie. These musical scenes evoke
such things as risk, triumph, the epic crusades of an uncertain
end, fear or courage, to mention but a few. The composer knows how
to blend the sound ingredients with a masterful hand, avoiding the
monotony that sometimes taints so many synthesists, and providing
the music with a lively character, hazardous, typical of acoustic
performances. There are slow passages of pure meditative Space
Music, yet not merely ambient, but rather dominated by specific
melodies of a great strength. The sequencers develop a varied
range of roles, from those characterized by a physical, roaring
power, to those that appear to be crossing the threshold of the
intangible.
JORGE MUNNSHE

"Binary Secrets" sound clips here:

http://www.elentorno.com/domfscab/paginas/audio.html

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DOM F. SCAB
Synthesist Dom F. Scab is a member of the band At-Mooss. Born in
1965, he started taking piano lessons at age ten. Over the next
years, he worked toward acquiring the tools and the ability to
develop his own musical style.  He began a solo career as a
composer in 1998. His music has gotten airplay on such famous
radio programs like Echoes (in the USA).Scab has composed some
soundtracks. He has collaborated with several musicians, among
them Albert Giménez (ex-member of Neuronium). He is also a skilled
sound engineer.
Essential recordings:
-INNERSEED
-COSMIC NI (& Albert Gimenez)
-SILENT MARS (& John Lakveet)
-BINARY SECRETS
With At-Mooss:
-MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS
-MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS-II
-MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS-III

JOSEPH LOIBANT:
"PULSE"
At-Mooss Records
Joseph Loibant paints with intense sonic colors an album of strong
emotion. By using a sophisticated arsenal of synthesizers, he
takes us to a quest dominated by action and risk, although it also
has its moments of sweetness, such as for instance the track
"Evocation Free", a warm ballad between Space Music and Symphonic
Rock. The fast themes flow along diverse musical regions sited
between Trance and the currents associated with Space Music as
well as Techno. The melodies tend to range between the mysterious
and the sentimental. Some tracks, such as for instance "Pulse",
present an approach that at times seem to evoke extreme
situations.The rhythms are ellaborated mostly with powerful
sequences and complex percussive rhythms. Numerous artistic and
technical paint-brushes are awaiting their being discovered in new
listenings, therefore this CD, as is usual in the music created by
Loibant, turns out to be a constant source of wonders and acquires
new personalities as time goes by.
JORGE MUNNSHE

JOSEPH LOIBANT:
"RANDOM"
At-Mooss Records
This is an album overflowing with energy. Tumultuous,imprevisible,
even though under a certain degree of order, as if it were a
tropical rain storm, "Random" takes us to a sonic adventure
dominated by rhythms of a metallic, percussive nature. The music
flows between Trance and Space Sequencer Music, with incursions
into Synth-Pop and evocations of Industrial Music. The palette of
sounds used takes somewhat unusual paths at times, which
contributes to emphasize the individualistic character of this
work, separated from the conditionings that are often imposed by
the belonging to short-lived trends. The music is impetuous,
risky, able to evoke situations where the emotions are given a
free run and adrenaline floods all our entire being. Here the use
of synthesizers has a very important role, and it also proves
Loibant's skills to work the electronic sound with the same
humanity that can pervade the performance of a virtuoso of the
violin or any other emblematic acoustic instrument.
JORGE MUNNSHE

JOSEPH LOIBANT:
"NUCLEUS"
At-Mooss Records
As its title seems to suggest, "Nucleus" represents a descent into
the nucleus of electronic music made flesh in the trends near to
the Space Sequencer Music, Synth-Pop and Techno. Avoiding
dispersions in the general structure of this work, Loibant leads
his music along a path where one can apprecciate in all its
magnitude the power of sequencers and rhythmic sections. Likewise,
the melodies are concentrated on pure, hard lines, as if they were
the profiles of steel or the sparks of crystal. We can call this
cybernetic music yet it also is organic as it presents a strong
dose of emotion. The artist seems to have had this concept in
mind, as an attentive reading of the titles he has given to the
tracks suggests a hybrid blending of the electronic and the
biologic . As if he intended to identify the DNA of synthesizers,
the artist paints portraits of a high quality with the most
primary of elements in the electronic sound.
JORGE MUNNSHE

JOSEPH LOIBANT:
"REGRESSION ALPHA"
At-Mooss Records
Sculpting the electrectonic sound with a certain  impressionistic
air, Loibant gathers in this album the path of Space Music of the
seventies, just before many of its initiators started to shape it
into a metamorphosis towards more commercial, less avantgarde
forms. Yet this is not a revision, but rather a powerful exercise
of imagination to try provide that musical style with an evolution
it never had before, building a sort of alternate reality where
not only the main patterns of the cosmic trends continue to live,
but also a terrain where the analogic and the digital are
completely fused. In the technical aspects, Loibant has not
despised any means to achieve this remarkable re-evolution. One of
the most meaningful technical details is the fact that he has even
made use of the audio signal processing by means of electronic
valves. The electronic valve, a key piece of electronic technology
before the spread of the transistor, experiences then an
unexpected resurrection. In general terms, it can be said that the
very soul of the music itself is the same that characterized the
space trends in the seventies, when it was completely apart from
the commercial constrictures that later would undermine many of
its basic traits; whereas its body is made with the same pieces as
the innovative nucleus of Ambient as well as such genres as
Trance. The theme "Gorgonea Quarta" is perhaps the one that best
reflects such a singular nature.
JORGE MUNNSHE

JOSEPH LOIBANT:
"FIRE COMET"
At-Mooss Records
Joseph Loibant shapes in this album a vigorous music, unnderlined
with a strong pulse and clear brush- strokes. A music of cutting
edges and sounds of a remarkable density and weight. Exploring the
most electronic aspects of the currents near to Trance, Synth-Pop,
Space Sequencer Music and Techno, the composer succeeds in
creating themes of an imparable rhythmic power. He also offers us
passages of a vivid emotional warmth, where the synthesizers are
perceived more like sound gnomes than like machines. Another trait
that is immediately noticed is the almost obsessive care in the
management of the sounds. Beyond the task of composing, such
artists as Loibant sculpt the music from point zero, choosing each
element of sound with the same care as they choose each note or
chord. Some subtle touches of Jazz complement several of the
themes, thus contributing to give the music a more individualistic
personality.
JORGE MUNNSHE

JOSEPH LOIBANT
Synthesist Joseph Loibant is the founder of the band At-Mooss. He
possess a wide musical trajectory, which includes his activity as
a member of the techno band Programa, together with Carlos Guirao
(ex-member of Neuronium) and Jose M. Ciria. As for his personal
style, Loibant is the most eclectic member of At-Mooss. This is so
due to the many trends he has dealt with during his long career as
a musician, ranging from Jazz to Techno. He is a skilled sound
engineer / designer.
Essential recordings:
-SINE
-PULSE
-RANDOM
-NUCLEUS
-REGRESSION ALPHA
-FIRE COMET
In At-Mooss:
MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS
MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS-II
MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS-III
In Programa:
SINTESIS DIGITAL
ACROPOLIS
IMPACTO
ASHES

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IURY LECH:
"VICTIMa OF DUNCEing"
Insolit
Iury Lech surprises us once again with an immersion into unknown
abysses in the ocean of the musical avantgarde.By using unusual
architectures, he creates dense pieces, brimming with shades. He
utilizes electronics with a great imagination and skill. Lech has
also made use of the collaboration of MACC with the stick as well
as the vocals provided by singer Ruix, who contributes her warm
and at the same time mysterious voice in several of the pieces.
The electronic treatment of her vocals enhances the most ghostly
shades of her vocal technique and it appears that we are dreaming
that we are hearing her. Insidious melodies, exotic rhythms and
industrial ambiences are some of the other ingredients Lech
constructs his album with. Prophetic urban folklore, or oniric
surrealism as real as life itself, the fact is that the music
created by Iury Lech always explores the most impressive areas of
such trends as Ambient or Trance.
JORGE MUNNSHE

"VICTIMa OF DUNCEing" sound clips here:

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4215/victima.html

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IURY LECH
Iury Lech is a composer, movie maker and writer. He usually joins
all these aspects in his artistic works. Born in 1958 in an
immigrant family from Ukraine, he began his artistic career by the
mid 1970s. By the late '80s he began to release his albums.
Essential recordings:
-OTRA RUMOROSA SUPERFICIE
-MUSICA PARA EL FIN DE LOS CANTOS
-A BITE IN THE COMMON SENSE
-SERIAL CASTRATI
-ASPERSIONS BY INSTINCT
-VICTIMa OF DUNCEing

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ERIK WOLLO:
"WIND JOURNEY"
Monumental Records
Luminous airy music. Thus could this album by Erik Wollo be
defined. Luminous because it turns out to be as warm as the
sunrays in a clear morning. Airy, given its agile, dynamic,
crystalline and at times ethereal shades. Both the title and the
cover of the album refer to an air walk. And certainly, the
compositions seem to reflect the sensations and emotions that can
be experienced in free flight, onboard a balloon or an airplane.
Of course, there also are moments with other orientations. Yet
anyway, this is a very intense album, where it is obvious that
Wollo has immersed his five senses. On the other hand, This is
styllistically speaking his most electronic album in several
years.
EDGAR KOGLER

ERIK WOLLO
Norwegian musician Erik Wollo started his career in 1980 as a
guitarist in the jazz band Celeste. His first solo album appeared
in 1983. It didn't take him long to evolve towards a more personal
style based in the use of electronic instruments. In the mid
eighties he became internationally known. He has composed music
for the radio, television and theatre. He has also produced other
artists.
Essential recordings:
-WHERE IT ALL BEGINS
-DREAMS OF PYRAMIDS
-TRACES
-SILVER BEACH
-IMAGES OF LIGHT
-SOLSTICE
-TRANSIT
-GUITAR NOVA
-WHERE IT ALL BEGINS (SPECIAL CD EDITION)
-WIND JOURNEY

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MIDNIGHT SYNDICATE:
"GATES OF DELIRIUM"
Linfaldia Records
Unique in their orientation,, previsible and imprevisible at the
same time, Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka, the members of
Midnight Syndicate, offer us a new, dark adventure. As in their
former works, they adopt a formal structure framed within the
genre of terror. Yet, instead of making use of the easy mines of
apocalyptic noise, they compose disquieting melodies and create
very concrete ambiances, utilizing the synthesizers in an
orchestral manner. As if it were a radio novel without words, they
make us live diverse situations. The structure of their
compositions develops around the New Instrumental Music, yet
unlike this genre, it centers around the harmony of what is dark,
tenebrous.
EDGAR KOGLER

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GLEISBERG:
"FRAGILE FAIRYTALES"
Prudence / BSC
In this album, Rudiger Gleisberg provides us with a series of
tracks performed live, besides three unreleased pieces so far.
Known thanks to his mastery in destroying the frontier between
Classical Music  and such trends as  Space Music or New
Instrumental Music, the selection of tracks that constitutes this
album will not deceive his usual followers, and it means a
magnificient opportunity for those who do not know him to get a
precise idea about his style. By using the synthesizers with the
grandeur of a classical orchestra, something that only a few
artists know how to do (for instance, Vangelis), Gleisberg takes
us through journeys to wondrous worlds, and re-creates situations
where feelings are manifested in all their depth.
JORGE MUNNSHE

RUDIGER GLEISBERG
Rudiger Gleisberg has released several internationally acclaimed
solo-albums, written movie-soundtracks and played with groups such
as Solitaire and Arcanum.
Essential recordings:
-INZEIT-OUTZEIT
-SAMADHI
-ARABESQUE
-BAKTUN
-CHRONICLE 1986-93
-DAMIANA
-ELYSIUM
-FRAGILE FAIRYTALES
In Solitaire:
-ALTERED STATES
-FEARLESS
-NOCTURNES
With A. Baghiri & M. Grassow (Arcanum):
-ARCANUM

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CHARLY McLION:
"THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE"
Kingfisher
Charly McLion, an active musician since the sixties, initiated in
Rock, who lived from very near to him the musical revolution
started by psychedelia, and who, together with Robert Schroeder
(Dreamstar) formed the successful duo Double Fantasy, undoubtedly
has a wide musical experience, furthermore nourished with his
activity composing movie soundtracks as well as his collaborations
with several other musicians. In this album we can listen to a
collection of pieces where melody is the great star. With an
attractive style sited between New Instrumental Music and the most
relaxed aspects of Synth-Pop, this CD will no doubt appeal to a
wide audience.
EDGAR KOGLER

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CONTENTS:

NEWS

THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC IN EASTERN EUROPE Chapter 6. POLAND AND EAST
GERMANY. This mini-series is a brief approach to the electronic
music and innovative / alternative styles in Eastern Europe.

REVIEWS:
TRANSJOIK: "MEAVRAA" Atrium / Warner Music Sweden
JUAN CARLOS GARCIA: "THE LUMINOUS PRESENCE" Pulsar Studios
SURFACE 10: "IN VITRO TIDE" DiN Records
SOLAR MOON SYSTEM: "LOGBOOK" Rainhorse / Manikin
MURDER LEGENDRE: "UNDERSTATEMENT OF EXTREMES" Spine Punch Music
HOLLYDRIFT: "HAIL THE FROZEN NORTH" Cuba Club Media

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MACC (electronics) and Xavier Pie (saxo) have united their
artistic efforts in a series of brilliant improvisations. A really
interesting meeting that of these two creators of universes of
sound. Miguel Alberto Cruz, better known by his artistic names
MACC and Satori, started a solo career in the musical avantgarde
of the early nineties. His imaginative and unclassifiable music
soon attracted a remarkable attention. The improvised music by
MACC and Xavier Pie flows, evolving, never losing its intrinsic
beauty, deep, hypnotic, with electronic undercurrents that lead to
atmospheres full of a soft energy, at times with space brushes.
More information here:
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Mauro Lupone is an interesting electroacoustic composer. In his
composition "Himmel-Feuer" (piano, bird calls and live
electronics), he sculpts textures in varied forms, thus weaving an
oniric tapestry full of mysteries.

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THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC IN EASTERN EUROPE
Chapter 6. POLAND AND EAST GERMANY.

It is impossible to attempt to compress the musical universe
enclosed behind the iron curtain by decades in a single mini-
series. A basic approach to the reality of the musical avantgarde
in each one of the multiple, rich cultures of this great unknown
which is Eastern Europe, nowadays in full development, would need
the making of a book. Therefore, this mini-series will only be a
brief vision, perforce incomplete, of this avantgarde style
sustained on cultures maybe as ancient or even more so than those
in the rest of Europe.

POLAND
	 Apart from Krysztof Penderecki, the well known forefather of
Polish New Music, there are other artists in the new musics with
international recognition.
	 Henryk Gorecki was born in Poland in 1933, and started his
career as a composer in the 1950s, revealing himself at once as an
innovative artist within orchestral music. In 1979 he had to leave
his post as a conductor at the Conservatory of Cracow due to
political pressure. In 1981 he composed "Miserere", as a homage to
the workers of the at the times clandestine trade union
Solidarity, whose premiere was forbidden by the Polish authorities
until 1987. Gorecki began to be internationally known especially
after the political changes of Eastern Europe.
	 One of the most awarded electroacoustic composers is Stanislaw
Krupowicz, settled in the United States. He has been working there
as a professor of the Department of Music at the Center for the
Musical Research via Computer, of the University of Stanford, in
California. He composes music and designs musical software. In
Poland, he studied Mathematics and later music, receiving a
diploma with honors on the latter. He carried out post-graduate
studies in Germany and wrote music for the cinema and theatre. In
my first contact with him, he was about to premiere a concert work
commissioned by the Union of Polish Composers.
	 I also contacted Barbara Zawadzka, a composer with great
prestige in the electroacoustic spheres. She studied music tutored
by Krysztof Penderecki. Later, she left for France, where she
studied electronic music. In 1980 she began to teach music in
Cracow. She has received numerous awards and prizes in Poland,
Germany, Austria and Switzerland, also participating in festivals
in China and France. She has composed music for the cinema and
theatre. She has collaborated with the IRCAM in France.
	 Marek Bilinski has succeeded in attaining a well deserved
reputation as a synthesist with avantgarde ideas.
	 Czeslaw Niemen, coming from Rock, has embraced numerous
styles.
	 Wladyslaw Komendarek has been doing Techno music.
	 Also worthy of mention are musicians Grzegorz Strozniak,
Przemyslaw Goc, Marek Klimczuk, Slawomir Kulpowicz, Josef Skrzek,
Wojciech Karolak, Janusz Grzywacz, Janusz Skowron, Zbigniew
Jakubek and Wladyslaw Sendecki, as well as the duo Up Stream.

EASTERN GERMANY
	 In the black market, up to three hundred dollars could be paid
for a Klaus Schulze album. The concerts held in Western Berlin
could be heard in Eastern Berlin close to the Wall. Berlin, or at
the very least Western Berlin, was the cradle of the so-called
"Berlinese Electronic Music". In this environment, a musical
culture very much influenced by the "electronic wonders" perceived
or guessed from the other side was developed. This caused an
important amount of synthesists to appear, surpassing that of
acoustic avantgarde musicians.
	 Pond was created as an electronic music duo, with diverse
stylistic sides, ranging from atmospheric music to percussive
rhythms. Most remarkable is the fact that they wrote the
soundtrack for a Chinese television series. This was possible for
them to do as they belonged to a Communist country. The music they
made for the series received excellent reviews, and it was said
that it sounded "far Easterner than that of many Japanese
synthesists".
	 Servi was another electronic duo that achieved remarkable
prestige in the former GDR. Having received a scholarly education,
their music fusioned German classicism with "German Rock". They
have released a number of albums.
	 Synthesist Reinhard Lakomy became known in the late 1970s. He
uses sequencers and keyboards to build rhythmic cosmic music. In
the beginning he was compared to the Tangerine Dream of the early
1980s, yet he soon progressed towards a very personal style. He
has perhaps been the most prestigious synthesist in Eastern
Germany.
	 Dieter Zobel is a self-taught musician who began to compose
when he purchased a Yamaha CX-5. His music is completely
disconnected from the music composed in the Western countries. It
is a complex mixture of futuristic classicism, medieval
ressonances, cosmic textures and experimentation.
	 Lord Litter is the artistic name of a multifaceted artist
highly involved with the Culture of the Cassette. He has a variety
of self-released and self-distributed tapes. He has written
articles and reviews for American fanzines. He has carried out
many other activities, such as directing and presenting a
programme on new musics for Radio-100 in Berlin, or being in
charge of a record label also devoted to distribution. His
university doctoral thesis consisted in a book on the home-taper
movement (independent musicians who sell their taped works by mail
directly to the audience), and its feasibility as an artistic
alternative to official / commercial music.
	 Moritz Reichelt, the keyboardist of Der Plan (a Hamburg-based
band that occupied Kraftwerk's place), comes from Eastern Europe,
although he has developed his artistic activity in the Western
sector. However, he performed in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and
Poland.
	 Also important is the work of Bayon, a World Music band,
centered in the fusion of both Europes, using traditional
instruments from the Eastern and Western countries; Unit, a band
sited between  Jazz and New Age, in a style of electronic World
Music; and Rainer Oleak, a synthesist who collaborated with
Reinhard Lakomy. Mention must be made as well of guitarist
Wolfgang Paulke, Julius Krebs, Jorn Kanitz and Hans-Hasso Stamer.

(By: JORGE MUNNSHE)

For more information about the available releases by those artists
and sound clips, use these links:

Krysztof Penderecki
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004R7N7/thesciencebookbo

Henryk Gorecki
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005J1C/thesciencebookbo

Marek Bilinski
http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=marek+bilinski

Reinhard Lakomy
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/192798/thesciencebookbo

Dieter Zobel
http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=dieter+zobel

Lord Litter
http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=lord+Litter

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REVIEWS:

TRANSJOIK:
"MEAVRAA"
Atrium / Warner Music Sweden
This is an ambitious work where the frontiers between Atmospheric
Pop, Trance, Ambient and the World Music become blurred, thus
weaving an harmonious whole, with the idea of exploring new sonic
continents.
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

For more information about the available releases by this band and
sound clips, use this link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/169699/thesciencebookbo

JUAN CARLOS GARCIA:
"THE LUMINOUS PRESENCE"
Pulsar Studios
The artist has succeeded in transmitting intense feelings with
this album of cosmic New Age Music, full of poetry and beauty,
which leads the listener to a world of wondrous soundscapes by
means of the masterful use of synthesizers.
JORGE MUNNSHE

SURFACE 10:
"IN VITRO TIDE"
DiN Records
The style of this CD, openly experimental and avantgarde, combines
the most risky aspects of Industrial Music with Ambient.
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

SOLAR MOON SYSTEM:
"LOGBOOK"
Rainhorse / Manikin
The music of this CD wanders around Trance and Atmospheric Pop,
with ethereal vocals, slow rhythms and strong doses of avantgarde.
Klaus Schulze participates as the executive producer in the album.
DEREK DOARN

MURDER LEGENDRE:
"UNDERSTATEMENT OF EXTREMES"
Spine Punch Music
Murder Legendre, the new project by Cedric Rokkgod, presents in
this album an interesting electronic tour through different styles
fused within a general structure near to the darkest areas of
Ambient and Noise Art.
JORGE MUNNSHE

HOLLYDRIFT:
"HAIL THE FROZEN NORTH"
Cuba Club Media
The style of this work fluctuates among the various areas of
Ambient, as well as other avantgarde trends within experimental
music. The use of sound collages enhances the oniric atmospheres.
EDGAR KOGLER

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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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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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NEWS

LUCIA HWONG. Lucia Hwong's music contains an outstanding amount of
energy, somewhat tinged with minimalist Western influences, in a
perfect fusion with her peculiar homage to her ancestral Chinese
roots.

REVIEWS:
PAUL WINTER & THE EARTH BAND: "JOURNEY WITH THE SUN" Living Music
/ Earth Music Productions
MICHAEL ECKART: "WOMAN IN A FOREST" General Media Inc. / Doll
Factory Music / Viva Music
LAMBERT: "PEARLS" Spheric Music
PETER MERGENER: "WET PLACES" Prudence / BSC Music
PAUL HEINERMAN: "PRIVATE SUN" Prudence / BSC Music
LARRY KUCHARZ: "COMPUTERCHORAL GREEN PRINTS" International
Audiochrome
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The album "Thinking of You" by Kitaro has been awarded with a Grammy
prize as The
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Terry Oldfield is remastering his album "In The Presence of Light".

"Far Beyond The Immobile Point", is the last work by Max Corbacho.

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LUCIA HWONG

Lucia Hwong's music contains an outstanding amount of energy,
somewhat tinged with minimalist Western influences, in a perfect
fusion with her peculiar homage to her ancestral Chinese roots.

Composer Lucia Hwong makes a kind of music which in a way can be
said to belong to the school created by Kitaro. Born in Hawaii,
although settled in Los Angeles, she is an intimist composer who
has also been an actress and dancer. The daughter of
internationally famous actress Lisa Lu, and the granddaughter of a
great diva of the Chinese opera, Lucia would be raised in a
remarkably artistic environment from an early age. Brought up in
the ancestral Chinese music, theatre and dance, Lucia was to
continue with the family tradition in the arts, taught by the best
professors, like for instance Henry Miller, a good family friend,
who helps her develop her creativity in such a way that it pours
out in her live performances. Lucia learns to trust her
imagination, going to the outermost limits, no matter where this
will lead her to.

The artist specializes in Arts at the University of California in
Los Angeles (UCLA), and then moves to New York to pursue
postgraduate studies in ethnomusicology at the Columbia
University. Hwong doctorates in music, having chosen as her
doctorate topic the operas by Philip Glass, which allows her to
contact this well known minimalist composer. With him she also
learns the art of making business in the musical arena.

Lucia Hwong's music contains an outstanding amount of energy,
somewhat tinged with minimalist Western influences that remind the
listener of Terry Riley, Steve Reich and maybe Philip Glass
himself, in a perfect fusion with her peculiar homage to her
ancestral Chinese roots. Her music does not lack, in the opinion
of some experts, a certain dose of female eroticism, which might
be reflected in her multiple textures which alternate with soft
images of an almost pastoral character, and that in actual fact
shape her personal dual nature. No wonder Philip Glass himself has
commented, with respect to her album "House of Sleeping Beauties",
released by the label Private Music, that Lucia Hwong is a young
representative of the dual tradition that does not limit herself
to borrowing from one culture or to integrating the sounds of the
other, but rather, she succeeds in achieving a melting of the
Eastern and Western cultures which turns out to be truly
refreshing and innovative, charming and evoking as well.

Lucia is commissioned the soundtrack for a documentary series on
Asia, which was to be broadcast on television. The artist decides
to visit the Tibet because of this, in search for the necessary
inspiration that would allow her to create the best music to this
end. Her efforts lead her to release her first album, which
consists in two themes. The first one, called "Tibet Suite", is
her most outstanding example of the fusion of musical styles,
namely the Eastern and the Western traditions, in such a way that
the folkloric music of her cultural heritage meets jazz in a
classicism of an exquisite make, where both styles are mutually
complemented, and where the acoustic instruments are adequately
coupled with the synthesizers she uses. The second piece is more
clearly jazzy.

In her second album, "Secret Luminiscence", Hwong makes a masterly
fusion of electronic technology and the music of the Far East, by
means of the Chinese lute, an instrument she learned to play in
her early childhood, and the electronic keyboards, which reproduce
ethereal timbres evoking an unearthly universe, all this tinged by
her sensual breathing, slow, deep, as she combines this with the
Celtic harp played by Alan Stivell, who also incorporates soft
textures to the whole. Besides those works, Hwong produces some
videoclips.

The choreographic style of her compositions, always aimed at
awakening the imagination of the listener and exploring the
different avantgarde trends, contribute to giving her music
this special air, and it is precisely this global harmony
that pervades her works what the artist has intended to
incorporate to her creations.

(By EMMA DORS)

Essential recordings:
House of Sleeping Beauties
Secret Luminiscence
Goddess Awakening Vol. 1
Goddess Celestial Realms Vol. 2
Goddess Mystical Visions Vol. 3

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REVIEWS:

PAUL WINTER & THE EARTH BAND:
"JOURNEY WITH THE SUN"
Living Music / Earth Music Productions
Paul Winter is  inspired on his concerts celebrating the solstice
to offer us 13 tracks that reflect our journey with the Sun from
an Earth perspective as well as a galactic viewpoint, without a
given time-sequence, as each piece is a musical hologram of this
voyage, in a timeless universe, where the new band founded by
Winter draws one of the best soundscapes in the World Music.
Ethnic rhythms are intertwined with melodies and vocals as well as
the wondrous sounds of the organ at the cathedral of St. John The
Divine (NY), providing the album with a special contemplative
nature which will no doubt appeal to the followers of this musical
genre.
MONTSERRAT ANDREU-MARIN

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MICHAEL ECKART:
"WOMAN IN A FOREST"
General Media Inc. / Doll Factory Music / Viva Music
Michael Eckart,  a long-time experienced producer/writer with a
deep knowledge of the musical industry, whose musical paths have
taken him through a variety of styles ranging from jazz to hip-
hop, Latin or R&B, is inspired by the paintings of Bob Guccione,
and specifically "Woman in a Forest", to offer us an incredible
soundscape where the musician paints in music what the painter
expresses with his paintings. Throughout the ten tracks included
in this CD, Eckart develops his rhythmic structures, with a touch
of pop, relaxing melodies, fresh ambiences, occasionally
mysterious or sensual, thus creationg a musical tapestry which
reflect in the language of sound what Guccione transmits with the
language of painting. This is no doubt an album that will reach a
wide audience.
MONTSERRAT ANDREU-MARIN

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LAMBERT:
"PEARLS"
Spheric Music
In this album the artist creates a particular universe of sound
within the realms of Electronic Music based in the extensive use
of the sequencer, ocassionally minimalist structures, and at times
reflecting the undeniable influence of the Berlin School. The
recordings, done in 1989/90, evolve around specific themes,
recurring, even with some hypnotizing quality, leading the
listener to a particular journey through incredible oniric
universes, creating soundscapes that suggest a lasting quality
that transcends age and time. Five are the long themes included in
the CD, a total running time of  71:17 minutes of good Electronic
Music which most often becomes true Space Music, an album in fact
that will doubtlessly satisfy the lovers of this musical genre.
MONTSERRAT ANDREU-MARIN

PETER MERGENER:
"WET PLACES"
Prudence / BSC Music
Peter Mergener, co-founder of the legendary electronic music
formation Software, continues with his successful solo career. In
this release, the artist is inspired by the liquid element to
offer us a unique musical experience. The sounds of nature, and
most specifically, those of water in all its forms  -be it the
peaceful waves of a paridisiac beach, the furious roar of wild
water, its mystery and its majesty- introduce each one of the
eight themes included in the CD, interwoven with suggestive
vocals, bird calls and quasi-ethnic melodies, developing
spectacular electronic visions of water soundscapes with touches
of pop, at times cosmic, relaxing, full of sensitivity. No doubt
Mergener is a true sculptor of sound, whose inspired creativity
will reach a wide audience.
MONTSERRAT ANDREU-MARÍN.

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PAUL HEINERMAN:
"PRIVATE SUN"
Prudence / BSC Music
This album is the fruit of the collaboration of Paul Heinerman
with Cees Van der Meulen, Bram Schenk and Pjotr Jurstchenko. The
result is a creative CD with twelve themes inspired by the sun,
the light, the romance and the happiness of the Mediterranean
Greek island of Crete. The piano weaves a tapestry of sound with
electronic, acoustic and ethnic instruments, occasional vocals
just suggested, melodic, whispered or plainly spoken, in addition
to certain touches of pop present throughout the album. The
resulting musical picture is brimming with calm, bliss, light,
peace, all that under the sun as the unique source for
inspiration, and will no doubt appeal to a wide audience.
ARIELLE MALREAUX

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LARRY KUCHARZ:
"COMPUTERCHORAL GREEN PRINTS"
International Audiochrome
The fourth album in the series of "electrochoral" music by Kucharz
continues   to develop the minimalist music the artist created in
the seventies, while combining it with harmonies and structures
typical of the Western choral musical tradition, so as to go a
step beyond in modern electronic classical music. The nine themes
included in this album create once again beautiful atmospheres
that softly flow onwards, towards dreamscapes at times ethereal,
within a new musical minimalism with ambient touches that will
appeal to the followers of this musical style.
EMMA DORS

PALANTIR:
"EMPIRE OF ILLUSIONS"
Spheric Music
Composer, musician and sound-engineer Chistian Schimmoeller aka
Palantír (a name adopted after Tolkien) experiences with sound to
create dreamscapes of an incredible beauty, with expressive
atmospheres at times merely hinted at, full of fantasy, combining
acoustic and electronic sounds with special effects, at times
sounding very real or dreamy, thus exploring the possibilities of
music to awaken in the listener the desire to enter "lucid" dreams
or lead us to develop our own "mind movie", by invoking emotions,
impressions and soundscapes which differ from listener to
listener, in a wondrous quest towards the subconscious, in a sonic
journey through ten tracks, where sequences are interwoven with
lively rhythms, ethereal vocals, ethnic chants, dreamy melodies,
nature sounds, and meditative ambiences. This is a CD that will
doubtlessly appeal to a wide audience, and most specially the
followers of this musical genre.
MONTSERRAT ANDREU-MARIN

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CONTENTS:

NEWS

REVIEWS:
FANGER & KERSTEN: "SPLASHDOWN" Manikin records
KARDA ESTRA: "THIRTEEN FROM THE TWENTY FIRST" No Image
THOMAS FERRELLA & KEVIN SCHAEFER: "MUSICAL CATECHISM"
ASHERA: "COLOUR GLOW"
OZONE PLAYER: "INSANE LOGIC" Visual Power
JON SHEFFIELD: "SHORE HOSES" Sparkling Beatnik Records
PIERO MILESI: "WITHIN HIMSELF" Cuneiform Records
BROEKHUIS & SCHONWALDER & KELLER & BRAUN: "VIER DREI ZWEI" Manikin
Records
CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE: "MOONSCAPES: HOW STONES BECOME
ENLIGHTENED" N-light-N Records
KLAUS SCHULZE: "CONTEMPORANY WORKS (10 CD Box) Rainhorse / Manikin
Records
BRANNAN LANE: "LOST CAVERNS OF THERA" World Circle Records / BMI
JAMES JOHNSON: "LINGER" DAM / mp3.com
JIM FOX: "LAST THINGS" Cold Blue Music
MICHAEL BYRON: "MUSIC OF NIGHTS WITHOUT MOON OR PEARL" Cold Blue
Music
CHAS SMITH: "NIKKOWOLVERINE" Cold Blue Music

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Tangerine Dream will give a live performance at the Shepherds Bush
Empire in London on May, 12th.

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CDs by IURY LECH AVAILABLE IN AMAZING SOUNDS MAILORDER SERVICE

Iury Lech is a composer, movie maker and writer. He usually joins
all these aspects in his artistic works. Born in 1958 in an
immigrant family from Ukraine, he began his artistic career by the
mid 1970s. By the late '80s he began to release his albums.

You can find more information in Amazing Sounds online version
(article-interview), at:

http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0031.html

"A BITE IN THE COMMON SENSE"
This album of thirteen pieces of varied styles, some of them very
innovative, independent from the most usual frameworks in
electronic music. Rhythm has a pervasive presence, be it in itself
as such or supporting the melody on its own. Quite passages turn
out to be cosmic. A certain symphonic classicism can be perceived
throughout most of the work.

"SERIAL CASTRATI"
The music contained in this album has a very personal, innovative
style. Some of the pieces possess a certain cosmic character,
others approach minimalism, but no known label could be applied to
it. Perhaps a new definition should be coined: "Computer ethnic
music". The most avantgarde pieces are like urban folk music of
the future.

"ASPERSIONS BY INSTINCT"
This album is a provocative shaped double CD where the
synthesizers and percussion have a basic role. The music goes
beyond the conventional, surpassing even the frontiers of many
styles (Ambient, Trance, Dark, Psychedelic, Space) that already
are avantgarde by themselves. On the whole, the work is like a
collection of dreams or nightmares turned into music.

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REVIEWS:

FANGER & KERSTEN:
"SPLASHDOWN"
Manikin records
Synthesists Thomas Fanger and Michael Kersten have created a
brilliant collection of pieces in the most perfect cosmic vein.
This album will delight the lovers of this kind of music.
Ethereal, gliding sounds, spectacular, soft melodies and
sequences, envelop one by one all the themes of the album. Their
music, eminently electronic, makes deep incursions into Techno,
Synth-Pop, Space Sequencer, and New Instrumental Music.
EDGAR KOGLER

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to use this link:

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KARDA ESTRA:
"THIRTEEN FROM THE TWENTY FIRST"
No Image
Karda Estra is a band formed by Richard Wileman, Ileesha Bailey,
Caron Hansford, Zoe King and Rachel Larkins. In this album we find
13 tracks that have a brilliant architecture plenty of
imagination. Acoustic instruments blend with electronic sound,
thus creating unexpected electroacoustic textures. The music
combines pop elements with classical traits and futuristic
atmospheres. In all, this is indeed an album that will no doubt
appeal to a wide audience, given its imaginative nature as well as
its conceptual originality.
HECTOR JORDAN

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to use this link:

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THOMAS FERRELLA & KEVIN SCHAEFER:
"MUSICAL CATECHISM"
In this double CD, we find 14 original compositions where the
frontiers between Ambient, Industrial, Electroacoustic and
Minimalist Music become blurred. The instrumentation and the sonic
effects maintain a disquieting tone throughtout the album,
contributing a series of undescribable sensations for the
listener. The album is highly reccommended for those who love the
most experimental side of electronic music.
EDGAR KOGLER

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link:

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to use this link:

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ASHERA:
"COLOUR GLOW"
This CD contains 11 themes of a slow development, electronic and
certainly of a very ambient character. The dense orchestrations
contribute in a remarkable way to recreate the landscapes
suggested by each piece. The synthesizers, performing the music in
a crystaline, atmospheric way, provide the music with its quality
of magic, unearthly feeling. Ashera achieves in his music a very
effective, attractive and even meditative atmosphere.
EDGAR KOGLER

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OZONE PLAYER:
"INSANE LOGIC"
Visual Power
This is the Ozone Player's first CD. However, the Finnish composer
Otso Pakarinen (the only member of Ozone Player) has been making
music since early seventies in several groups and under different
pseudonyms. Ozone Player's imaginative music creates breaks with
many moulds, and explores paths that border Ambient, Psychedelic
Rock, Electroacoustic, Classical and other forms of
experimentation.
EDGAR KOGLER

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link:

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JON SHEFFIELD:
"SHORE HOSES"
Sparkling Beatnik Records
Jon Sheffield has created an interesting work, where in a coherent
manner, without forced fussions, he gathers elements from the most
electronic aspects of Techno, Industrial Music and Trance,
together with traits typical of Ambient and some touches of Synth-
Pop. Though there are slow parts, much of the music has a lively
rhythm. The percussion has an important role in all the
compositions.
EDGAR KOGLER

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PIERO MILESI:
"WITHIN HIMSELF"
Cuneiform Records
The general style of the work can be described as Minimalist New
Instrumental Music. Anyhow, the themes have different
orientations. Some are near to Classical Music, like for instance
"So soggy". Others present connections with Ambient Music, like
for instance "Volti riflessi". There are melodic passages of a
great emotional strength, which could be defined as a fusion of
New Instrumental and Classical Music.
EDUARDO FONTANA

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BROEKHUIS & SCHONWALDER & KELLER & BRAUN:
"VIER DREI ZWEI"
Manikin Records
This 3 CD set contains a series of live recordings by the
synthesists Bernd Braun, Bas Broekhuis, Detlef Keller and Mario
Schonwalder. The CD "The reason why..." contains the concert that
Keller and Schonwalder gave at the Jodrell Bank, England, on the
10th. of June 2000. The CD "Project inter.com" gathers these
recordings by Bernd Braun, Bas Broekhuis, Detlef Keller and Mario
Schonwalder: "In the Barn" (Germany, 3rd June 2000), "Come and
taste the band Part One" (Cologne, 13th March 1999), "Not from
this world" (recorded on 9th October 1999 in Nijmegen at the E-
Live festival), "Epilogo da Bologna" (3rd June 2000), "Final
Beats" (Berlin, 10th June 1999) The CD "Drei" contains these
recordings by Bernd Braun, Bas Broekhuis, Detlef Keller and Mario
Schonwalder: "Come and taste the band Part Two" (Cologne, March
1999), "Bologna parte uno" (Bologna, April 2000) The music takes
us to a imaginary voyage towards fascinating places and ages. Some
pieces are slow, and others have lively sequencer-based rhythms.
This 3 CD set is a very commendable addition to the collection of
the fans of Space Music as well as genres connected to this one.
EDGAR KOGLER

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Bernd Braun
http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=Bernd+Braun

Bas Broekhuis
http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=Bas+Broekhuis

Detlef Keller
http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=Detlef+Keller

Mario Schonwalder
http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=Mario+Schoenwalder

CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE:
"MOONSCAPES: HOW STONES BECOME ENLIGHTENED"
N-light-N Records
This CD is the commercial debut of the band Cyber Zen Sound
Engine. The music, which is electronic, has the typical
characteristics of tendencies like Ambient, New Instrumental
Music, and Space. Besides, it has certain romantic touches, and
sometimes some of Techno Music. Each one of the 13 pieces is
framed within one of these basic genres, though some gather
elements from more than one of these.
EDGAR KOGLER

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KLAUS SCHULZE:
"CONTEMPORANY WORKS (10 CD Box)
Rainhorse / Manikin Records
This 10 CD box by Klaus Schulze is defined as a collection of
contemporany works by him. The peculiar style of Schulze's can be
perceived in its varied facets throughout this collection. Schulze
explores numerous musical terrains, from Pop to Classical music,
passing through Space, Trance, New Instrumental Music, World
Music, and many others. Each piece includes several different
parts, each one of which is close to some given style of the ones
mentioned above.  Some themes are slow, but others turn out to
have a quite energetic rhythm. The rhythmic structure of the music
tends to be based on the sequencers as a general rule, as well as
on the percussion typical of pop. Some pieces are purely
instrumental, whereas others include voice. Several passages are
cold, mysterious. Others turn out to be warm, emotional. There are
some parts entirely devoted to experimentation. Others show
rhythmic structures apt for dancing. Some passages are ideal to
let imagination soar through unearthly worlds. A certain nostalgic
air is present in most of the compositions. Accompanying Schulze,
the following artists participated: Julia Messenger (lyrics),
Thomas Kagerman (flute, vocals, violin), Jorg Schaaf
(electronics), Solar Moon System, O'Finken (guitar), Razoof
(drums), Tom Dams (vocoder, lyrics...), George Boskamp
(synths...), Wolfganf Tiepold (cello), Tobias Becker (oboe).
JORGE MUNNSHE

KLAUS SCHULZE
The German composer Klaus Schulze, a pioneer of electronic music,
began his career in the late 1960s. He was a member of several
bands, among them Tangerine Dream and Ashra Tempel. In 1972 he
released his first solo record. In the 1970s he became famous at
an international level, both because of his records and his
spectacular concert tours.
Essential recordings:
-IRRLICHT
-CYBORG
-PICTURE MUSIC
-BLACKDANCE
-TIMEWIND
-MOONDAWN
-BODY LOVE 1
-MIRAGE
-BODY LOVE 2
-X
-DUNE
-LIVE
-DIG IT
-TRANCEFER
-AUDENTITY
-DZIEKUJE POLAND
-ANGST
-INTER*FACE
-DREAMS
-EN=TRANCE
-MIDITERRANEAN PADS
-THE DRESDEN PERFORMANCE
-BEYOND RECALL
-ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL VOL.1
-ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL VOL.2
-THE DOME EVENT
-SILVER EDITION (10 CDs)
-LE MOULIN DE DAUDET
-TOTENTAG
-DAS WAGNER DESASTER
-HISTORIC EDITION (10 CDs)
-IN BLUE
-ARE YOU SEQUENCED?
-JUBILEE EDITION (25 CDs)
-DOSBURG ONLINE
-TRAILER
As WAHNFRIED or RICHARD WAHNFRIED together with other artists:
-TIME ACTOR
-TONWELLE
-RICHARD WAHNFRIED PLAYS MEGATONE
-MIDITATION
-TRANCELATION
-TRANCE APPEAL
In Tangerine Dream:
MEDITATION
In Ashra Tempel:
-ASHRA TEMPEL
-JOINN IN
In The Cosmic Jokers:
-THE COSMIC JOKERS
-PLANETEN SIT-IN
-GALACTIC SUPERMARKET
-SCI FY PARTY
-GILLES ZEITSCHIFF
In collaboration with other musicians:
With Rainer Bloss: DRIVE INN
With Rainer Bloss and Ernst Fuchs: APHRICA
With Andreas Grosser: BABEL
With Vangelis: CONQUEST OF PARADISE (CD-single) (version by
Schulze of the theme of the same title by Vangelis)
-KLAUS SCHULZE GOES CLASSIC (versions of pieces by different
classical authors)

You can find more information at the Klaus Schulze official web:

http://www.klaus-schulze.com

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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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BRANNAN LANE:
"LOST CAVERNS OF THERA"
World Circle Records / BMI
The 12 pieces that integrate this CD are treks towards the
unknown. All of them possess a decidedly mysterious, enigmatic
character, like soundtracks for nocturnal walks in subterranean
places. Thera is the Greek word for fear. Therefore, the whole
release shows an obvious ghostly character. More than concrete
melodies in the traditional sense, there are chords and echoes
that come and go.
EDGAR KOGLER

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JAMES JOHNSON:
"LINGER"
DAM / mp3.com
The most abstract areas of Ambient constitute the stage where the
pieces in this CD are developed. The five compositions show a
strong orientation towards the unearthly, and dreamy environments.
The electronic orchestrations contribute in a remarkable way to
recreate the landscapes suggested by each piece. The music tends
to be soft, with slow rhythms, or even static. The piano is the
soloist instrument in "Siren Song", a beautiful theme. The CD also
contains a CD-ROM track with the five pieces in MP3 format.
EDGAR KOGLER

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JIM FOX:
"LAST THINGS"
Cold Blue Music
Two long themes constitute this compact disc by Jim Fox. The
artist uses a wide variety of musical elements to create
atmospheres full of a soft energy. The music can be placed between
Ambient and Minimalism. There also are touches of New Music. The
successive sonic textures, take us step by step into an unexplored
terrain.
VALERIANO GUIOL

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MICHAEL BYRON:
"MUSIC OF NIGHTS WITHOUT MOON OR PEARL"
Cold Blue Music
This album gathers three long experimental minimalist pieces by
Michael Byron. Each composition is made with a different palette
of sound colors. The piano is the soloist instrument in
"Entrances", a piece of a turbulent rhythm. "Music of nights
without Moon or pearl" and "Invisible seeds for James Tenney" are
themes that can be labelled as Experimental New Instrumental
Music, ranging from Minimalism to melodic romanticism.
VALERIANO GUIOL

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CHAS SMITH:
"NIKKOWOLVERINE"
Cold Blue Music
An experimental album that explores sound in different
constructions and aspects. Dark atmospheres, crepuscular metallic
textures and disquieting whispers compose a landscape of eerie
colors. Much of the music is icy, ghostly, static. However, "Near
the divide" has a very special emotional warmth. Chas Smith is not
only the composer. All instruments are designed and fabricated by
him.
EDGAR KOGLER

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NEWS

CUSCO, SOUTH AMERICAN SOUND FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM. After about
twenty albums and the same amount of years, the band Cusco has
succeeded in reaching a well-merited position in the international
panorama of the alternative musics with a peculiar style whose
most successful trend is the one based on the folk roots of South
America to embark on the paths near to pop and classical
symphonism.

REVIEWS:
ASHRA TEMPEL: "GIN ROSE AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL" Manikin
ASHRA TEMPEL: "FRIENDSHIP" Manikin
RAMP: "FROZEN RADIOS"
SPYRA: "HOMELISTENING IS KILLING CLUBS" Manikin
DANIEL PEMBERTON & CHARLES UZELL EDWARDS: "ENHANCED ENVIRONMENTS"
Subversal Records
VARIOUS: "COUSTEAU'S DREAM" Real Music
VARIOUS: "ESM - ELECTRONIC SPANISH MUSIC" Lightnet Music
VARIOUS: "ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC VOLUME VI" Electroshock

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NEW RELEASES / RE-RELEASES / DISTRIBUTIONS
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Deuter & Dunster & Kamal & Anuvida: "Journey Into The Light"

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Deuter: "Garden Of The Gods"

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Mario Vaz De Mello: "Bamboo Shadows"

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CUSCO, SOUTH AMERICAN SOUND FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM

After about twenty albums and the same amount of years, the band
Cusco has succeeded in reaching a well-merited position in the
international panorama of the alternative musics with a peculiar
style whose most successful trend is the one based on the folk
roots of South America to embark on the paths near to pop and
classical symphonism.

	 Although several artists have collaborated with Cusco  both as
composers and performers, the basic nucleus is formed around the
duo integrated by Michael Holm and Christian Schultze, both having
long recording trajectories, and being well known in the world of
the alternative musics. From both, Michael Holm can be defined as
the "alma mater" of Cusco, due to the fact that his degree of
involvement in the project of Cusco is the highest.

A DENSE MUSICAL TRAJECTORY
	 Michael Holm became interested in music since he was a child.
The family environment was certainly adequate, since his father
and four brothers and sisters constituted a sort of family
orchestra playing the piano, the violin, the flute and other
instruments. From that time, Holm recalls with a special feeling
the role of flutist that in that sextet he was assigned, and he
told me once that the presence of the flute in the albums by Cusco
is to a great extent due to his pleasant, precocious experience as
a flutist.
	 With this background it is not surprising that the young
Michael would waste no time to initiate his own professional
career as a musician. He did so in 1963, at age twenty, as a
singer and songwriter.
	 Several years would have to pass until the Cusco project
arose. For fifteen years, Holm worked his path into the musical
world, becoming a successful professional musician, devoted to
diverse musical tasks, including that of production.

SOUTH AMERICA: THE STARTING POINT
	 In 1978, Holm experienced what would lead him to the creation
of Cusco. That year he travelled throughout South America. The
contact with the culture, the peoples, the landscapes, deeply
impressed the musician, exciting him and providing him with strong
doses of inspiration. The human side of the inhabitants of the
places he visited was, in a special manner, a decisive factor:
"The peoples treated us in such a friendly, warm way, that I
believe that the feeling of warmth in the music by Cusco is a
reflection of the great friendship and the good heart these people
welcomed us with".
	 Until 1979, Holm had mostly been in charge of the production
of numerous releases. Then, his desire to explore new musical
aspects by means of synthesizers, led him to plan the production
of his own compositions, either solo or with the collaboration of
other musicians. The experience lived the previous year in south
America determined to a great extent the stylistic orientation of
his initiative.
	 Holm counted with Rainer Pietsch, Kristian Schultze and other
artists for the project. He had been in contact with Schultze
since 1976, the year when the creation of a sort of embryo of what
Cusco was to be can be placed. The music, composed by Holm and
several of these musicians, integrated "Desert Island", the first
album of the band.
	 Despite all the success that Holm had had with his pop
productions, he faced many difficulties to release the album. He
only found a small Japanese label interested in the project. Under
this one the CD was released. It harvested enough success to
guarantee the continued releases by Cusco. The two next albums
also had in Japan their main means of diffussion.
	 In 1986, another modest label, this time in North America,
became interested in Cusco. The same phenomenon that had occurred
in Japan was repeated in the United States. Cusco became a famous
name, a synonym of alternative music that at the same time turned
out to be available for a wide audience.
	 This success meant an important impulse for Cusco, although
Holm points out the fact that "This did not influenced the way we
developed our style". Another curious aspect about the
international acceptance of the band is, as Holm remarked to me,
the fact that Europe and most specially Germany, are the two
places where the difussion of their music is most scarce. It looks
like an obvious case of those that underline the truth in the
saying that "No one is a prophet in his own land", that is,
artists are usually valued more outside their country than in
their homeland.

CUSCO ON THE INSIDE
	 Holm describes his personal artistic goals as well as those of
the band with these words: "We intend to improve ourselves by
creating romantic melodies and warm sounds that constitute
acoustic brush strokes to paint images". With respect to this
"visual" capacity present in the compositions by Cusco, Holm is
convinced that "the style by Cusco is specially suitable for the
creation of movie soundtracks".
	 Cusco, through Holm and the other musicians that collaborate
in the project, utilize a wide variety of instruments in the
performance of their music. Nevertheless, Holm's preferences are
mostly directed, as he admitted some time ago, towards the
keyboards, the guitar and the percussion. These are the
instruments he works most comfortably with, and the ones that
provide greater possibilities for expression to the musical ideas
usually present in Cusco.
	 Before the question of whether he is aware that other
stylistic influences, apart from the South American one, are
present as well in the music by Cusco, Holm admits that it is so,
and he does not hide the fact that the most important ones are
classical music and German folklore, together with pop, rock, and
even Techno.
	 In one occasion I asked him about the contributions to Cusco's
style that have been made on the part of the musicians who have
collaborated together with him and Schultze. Holm pointed out the
work by Johan Daansen (guitar), Curt Cress (percussion), and the
Symphonic Orchestra and Choir of the State Opera of Munich,
stating that: "their performing styles are very well adjusted to
my artistic concept of Cusco".

(By Jorge Munnshe)

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REVIEWS:

ASHRA TEMPEL:
"GIN ROSE AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL"
Manikin
On April, 2000 a singular event took place during the Cornucopea
Festival, in London. A concert by Ashra Tempel with basically the
original members of the year 1970. Since Manuel Gottsching has
been the only permanent member during all these years, this
concert featured Klaus Schulze as well. The third founding member,
Hartmut Enke, retired from the musical world since almost thirty
years ago, was doubtful, and in the end he chose not to take part.
Schulze and Gottsching performed a large suite with experimental
passages, whereas others were symphonic. A work not lacking in
rhythm that showed the side of Ashra Tempel nearest to the style
of Schulze. Gottsching played the guitars, whereas Schulze was in
charge of the keyboards and sequencers.
EDGAR KOGLER

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ASHRA TEMPEL:
"FRIENDSHIP"
Manikin
In this album once again we find Klaus Schulze and Manuel
Gottsching in Ashra Tempel, the band they founded in 1970 together
with Hartmut Enke, and which has continued to be functioning
during all these years with different members under the tutelage
given by Gottsching. Three long pieces are included in the CD.
Gottsching is in charge of the guitars,whereas Schulze is the one
who deals with the synthesizers, sequencers and effects.Throughout
the album the style nearest to Schulze predominates in a special
manner.
EDGAR KOGLER

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Sounds, at:

http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0005.html

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RAMP:
"FROZEN RADIOS"
Ramp
Frank Makowski and Stephen Parsick are the members of Ramp, a duo
of electronic music in the most powerful, cosmic path. In this
album they make an impressive display of futuristic sound
constructions. Powerful rhythms based on complex sequencers,
melodies brimming with mystery and drama, and a turmoil of
atmospheres, are the master guidelines of a solid work that shows
a display of fresh ideas, enthusiasm and a great energy.
JORGE MUNNSHE

SPYRA:
"HOMELISTENING IS KILLING CLUBS"
Manikin
Throughout nine track we embark on a journey to the most vital
areas in the meeting of the philosophy of Techno and that of the
School of Berlin. Thanks to the perfect fusion of elements of
both, the result posesses its own personality, of a very peculiar
nature. The rhythms, very elaborate as they are, have a primary
role, even if there are very static passages where the melody or
the abstract environmentspredominate. On the other hand, the
architecture of the themes veers off from the more conventional
structures, therefore providing the listener with the always
agreeable feeling of being voyaging along unexplored soundscapes.
EDGAR KOGLER

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DANIEL PEMBERTON & CHARLES UZELL EDWARDS:
"ENHANCED ENVIRONMENTS"
Subversal Records
The combination of the talents of Daniel Pemberton and Charles
Uzell Edwards has given as a result in this album a series of
pieces that travel along the frontier areas of ambient.
Electronics is used to portray the nocturnal loneliness of some
industrial areas, the melancholy romanticism of a rainy evening in
the city, and other sound pictures.The two musicians are not
easily labelled within a given path, but rather work in a varied,
interesting range of paths.
VICENTE GISPERT

VARIOUS:
"COUSTEAU'S DREAM"
Real Music
Diverse artists of well merited prestige are gathered in
"Cousteau's Dream", an album, from whose benefits a part is aimed
at the Cousteau Society and other ecological organizations. As can
be deduced from the title, the music here selected is mostly
inspired by the ocean and its lifeforms. The contents of the album
is as follows: Vangelis: "West across the ocean sea", Kamal:
"Shakuhaji Tales", Richard Burmer: "Sun's Comin' Out", Aria: "Un
Bel Di". Yanni: "Secret Vows", Kitaro: "Nageki", Kenny G: "Theme
from Dying Young", Kevin Kern: "To Sleep on Angels' Wings", 2002:
"Stella Maris", Tim Wheater: "Circle's Edge", Michael Hoppe:
"Lachrymosa", Vangelis: "Eternity", Frederic Delarue: "Future of
the Sea"
HECTOR JORDAN

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Vangelis:

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Yanni:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/33680/thesciencebookbo

Richard Burmer:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/37248/thesciencebookbo

Kitaro:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/45228/thesciencebookbo

Kevin Kern:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/59017/thesciencebookbo

2002:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/59025/thesciencebookbo

Tim Wheater:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/6150/thesciencebookbo

Michael Hoppe:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/123069/thesciencebookbo

VARIOUS:
"ESM - ELECTRONIC SPANISH MUSIC"
Lightnet Music
A magnificient selection of electronic compositions, characterized
by an imaginative, powerful use of synthesizers and sequencers.
Throughout the most cosmic trends, these brilliant creators regal
us with strong emotions and ultraterrestrial sensations. The album
proves the excellent artistic moment that electronic music is
experiencing nowadays. The musicians in this CD  have little or
nothing to envy from the famous artists in the genre, except for
the intensive commercial diffussion that ios given to the latter.
Thus we must be grateful for such initiatives as that of Lightnet
Music to provide us with a breeze of fresh air with the release of
sucjçh little jewels as this one. The contents of the CD is as
follows: David Ruiz: "Sincronic", Dom F. Scab: "Sin tesis", Jordi
Coloma: "11.000ºf", Random: "Electro república", Sergio Koval:
"Final departure", Bios: "The dark journey part 1", A.D.S.R.:
"Full Memory", Lightnet: "Black Pulsar", Javier Garcia:
"Parallax", Luis Alberto Naranjo: "Sphera V", Jürgens weird:
"London".
JORGE MUNNSHE

VARIOUS:
"ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC VOLUME VI"
Electroshock
In this new compilation of electroacoustic music, the label
Electroshock has gathered pieces from artists from all over the
world, composing with them a mosaic of different paths in
electroacoustic experimentation The contents of the CD are as
follows: Francesco Galante: "El mio presse e la notte", Antanas
Jasenka: "H3ORaj", Pete Stollery: "Peel", Adolfo Nuñez: "Noche
castellana", Carey Nutman: "Rituals do matter", Jorge Antunes:
"Hombres tristes y sin título rodeados de pájaros en noche
amarilla, violeta y naranja", Jukka Ruohomaki: Hommage a Winston
Smith".
DOMINIQUE CHEVANT

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CONTENTS:

NEWS

REVIEWS:
BRANNAN LANE: "TROPOSPHERE" World Circle Records / BMI
KEN ELKINSON: "REVELRY" August Son Productions
MICHAEL STEARNS / RON SUNSINGER: "SORCERER" Spotted Peccary
Music
ZERO OHMS: "SUPREME-INFINITE-ESSENCE" ZOP
JAMES JOHNSON: "ENTERING TWILIGHT" Hypnos
ALBERT GIMÉNEZ: "MARE NOSTRUM" G3G Records
ELIZABETH FALCONER: "WATER COLORS" Sparkling Beatnik Records
VIDNA OBMANA: "THE CONTEMPORARY NOCTURNE" Hypnos
TALES (JEAN LUC HERVÉ BERTHELOT: "ECHOES FROM THE LAST
FAIRYLAND" Somewhere in time Records
VASCO MARTINS: "APEIRON" VM Productions / Fisheye Music Production

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In Spain, "Directo al corazon" ("Droit au coeur") by Michel
Huygen has been nominated for the Premios de la Musica, for
the category of Best Album. "Hydro" by Neuronium (Michel
Huygen) has been nominated for the category of Best
Innovative Music Album.

At-Mooss Records will release At-Mooss's upcoming CD, the new work
by Plastha's Mountage, and several solo albums by Joseph Loibant,
leader of At-Mooss. These new CDs has awakened great expectations
among the fans of electronic music.

NEW RELEASES / RE-RELEASES / DISTRIBUTIONS
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David Lanz: "Love Songs"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000056O1Y/thesciencebookbo

Elisabeth von Trapp: "Christmas Song"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000056PZ6/thesciencebookbo

John Tesh: "Classical Music for an Intimate Mood"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000055ZEL/thesciencebookbo

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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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REVIEWS:

BRANNAN LANE:
"TROPOSPHERE"
World Circle Records / BMI
In this CD Brannan Lane offers us a space voyage creating a
soundscape that takes the listener through the various layers of
the atmosphere surrounding our planet to the stellar paths, by
means of serene cosmic melodies intertwined with inharmonic sounds
with some ethnic touches and space electronic effects. The album
includes five pieces, each one divided into two parts, whose names
guide the imagination of the listener to a personal cosmic
adventure. Starting from the troposphere, the composer creates a
soundtrack between Ambient and Space Music, for an imaginary
voyage throughout Earth's Mesosphere, its Thermosphere, and
beyond. In all, 57:15 minutes of good music that will no doubt
appeal to the lovers of this musical genre..
MONTSERRAT ANDREU-MARÍN

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link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004Z516/thesciencebookbo

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

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/208375/thesciencebookbo

KEN ELKINSON:
"REVELRY"
August Son Productions
Ken Elkinson presents his second release featuring twelve piano
solo compositions. The artist shows once again his mastery with
this instrument, while at the same time providing each track with
an intimate air, at times relaxing, emotional, blissful, nostalgic
and even romantic, with some minimalist traits, peaceful melodies
and perhaps a touch of improvisation, colored with pop, or jazz,
as well as reflecting his main influences received from such
artists as Keith Jarret and George Winston, among others. This is
no doubt a CD within the purest style of New Instrumental Music
that will certainly reach a wide audience.
ARIADNA MARTIN

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

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000051Y6Z/thesciencebookbo

KEN ELKINSON
Ken Elkinson was born in New Jersey, USA, in 1972. He will decide
to enroll in composition and piano courses very soon. In 1996, he
forms August Son Productions to handle the business arm of his
music. Less than a year later, his debut album, Midnight
Conversation, is released.
Essential works:
-MIDNIGHT CONVERSATION
-REVELRY

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

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/103221/thesciencebookbo

MICHAEL STEARNS / RON SUNSINGER:
"SORCERER"
Spotted Peccary Music
This album is the result of a wonderful collaboration between
Michael Stearns and Ron Sunsinger. Created to honor Carlos
Castaneda, and his work, the music constitutes a perfect
soundtrack for the title of the CD (or rather "The Voyage of The
Sorcerer"), thus creating an aura of mystery, at times with dark,
disquieting soundscapes, at times with ethereal sounds that seem
to come from Beyond, all that using all the resources provided by
electronic technology together with what appears to be ethnic
touches, percussive rhythms and peculiar sound effects, so as to
create a world of sound almost cosmic in nature, and certainly
transcendental as well. In all, ten tracks that will not deceive
the followers of this musical genre.
ARIELLE MALREAUX

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link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004WKBS/thesciencebookbo

MICHAEL STEARNS
Michael Stearns began as a guitarist in the sixties, playing in
rock and jazz bands. In 1968, he composed his first electronic
piece, while he was studying at university. After he completed his
musical studies, he opened a studio where he began to produce his
music together with jingles for the local radio and television
nets. After being a resident artist at the Emily Conrad's
Continuum Studio in 1975 and playing for two years in the free
jazz trio Alivity, he recorded his first album. Since then, he has
continued to release his own records, besides composing
soundtracks and collaborating in other productions.
Essential recordings:
-ANCIENT LEAVES
-SUSTAINING CYLINDERS
-MORNING JEWEL
-PLANETARY UNFOLDING
-LYRA SOUND CONSTELLATION
-LIGHT PLAY
-M'OCEAN
-CHRONOS
-PLUNGE
-FLOATING WHISPERS
-ENCOUNTER
-SACRED SITE
-THE LOST WORLD
-COLLECTED THEMATIC WORKS
-COLLECTED AMBIENT & TEXTURAL WORKS
-THE LIGHT IN THE TREES
-DESERT SOLITAIRE (& Steve Roach & Kevin Braheny)
-SINGING STONES (& Ron Sunsinger)
-BARAKA (& others)
-SORCERER (& Ron Sunsinger)

If you wish to purchase any recordings by Michael Stearns you only
have to use this link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/20513/thesciencebookbo

If you wish to purchase any recordings by Ron Sunsinger you only
have to use this link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/158801/thesciencebookbo

ZERO OHMS:
"SUPREME-INFINITE-ESSENCE"
ZOP
In this album we are offered twelve compositions of a peculiar
nature, between Ambient and Electronic Music with certain ethnic
touches, a hue of jazz and cosmic ambiences. Some of the tracks
have been recorded live thus maintaining their integrity and the
atmosphere of the moment when they were recorded. Each composition
has its own source of inspiration as explained in the front cover
of the CD, yet the album shows a coherent structure, at times
experimental, cosmic or relaxing, where sound is the main
characteristic, suggesting ethereal melodies, stellar voyages
through black holes, sub-atomic particles, primeval sounds and
mysterious soundscapes.
ARIADNA MARTIN

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have to use this link:

http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=zero+ohms

JAMES JOHNSON:
"ENTERING TWILIGHT"
Hypnos
This release by James Johnson consists of an only 66-minute track
of a unique nature within the purest style of Ambient Music. In an
almost imperceptible manner the listener is submerged within an
uninterrupted atmosphere of ethereal sounds, slow and relaxing,
creating an almost transparent world, full of peace, hinting at
unsuspected dreamy soundscapes, with a peculiar style almost
subliminal in its beauty. The music, soft, flows into an inspired
melody unfolding throughout the CD. No doubt this is a release
that will appeal to the lovers of this genre, in addition to being
a good means to induce relaxation, music therapy or simply to
enjoy a peaceful, evoking ambience in an intimate atmosphere.
ARIELLE MALREAUX

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

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004YKT3/thesciencebookbo

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

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/210853/thesciencebookbo

ALBERT GIMÉNEZ:
"MARE NOSTRUM"
G3G Records
In this album, recorded live in Lleida (Spain) on February, 25th.,
2000, Albert Giménez, an experienced musician with a masterful
creativity with the guitar and a solid career as a composer both
in the electronic and acoustic worlds, offers us a good work where
the processed guitar is the main star. The CD, mastered by
composer Dom F. Scab, well known for his work in the band At-
Mooss, also having a consolidated solo career of his own as well,
has an eminently experimental nature which makes it imposssible to
classify within any given label or genre, as it explores the
possibilities of sound in all its dimensions. This is a release
that will satisfy the lovers of musical experimentation in general
as well as the followers of Albert Giménez specifically.
MONTSERRAT AURELL

ALBERT GIMÉNEZ
The composer and guitar player Albert Giménez, born in 1956, began
his musical career in the '70s. He was a member of the bands Suck
Electronic, Macromassa and Neuronium. In 1979 he turned from
electric to classical guitar, releasing during the following years
different records with his own compositions for soloist acoustic
guitar, and playing in numerous concert tours. In 1995 he returned
to electric guitar so as to continue his research in the new
electronic frontiers that this instrument has to offer.
Essential recordings:
-UN SOMNI PETIT
-IMATGE
-ATLAS-NAIF (& V. Nubla & E. Cervera)
-ESCAPADA
-SIX JOURS A BARCELONA (& D. Lawalrée & C. Setó)
-MUSICA SECRETA
-DISCOURS - LIVE EUROPA JAZZ FESTIVAL LE MANS
-QUIETUDS
-CONCERT CONFIDENCIAL
-MUSICA CONTEMPLATIVA
-DUDUM
-MOSDUM
-ZIV
-COSMIC NI (& Dom F. Scab)
-MARE NOSTRUM
In Macromassa:
-DARLIA MICROTONICA
In Neuronium:
-QUASAR 2C361
-VUELO QUIMICO

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

http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=albert+gimenez

or this one:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003Q4NA/thesciencebookbo

ELIZABETH FALCONER:
"WATER COLORS"
Sparkling Beatnik Records
This album by Elizabeth Falconer consists of seven magnificient
compositions where the Japanese Koto is the star instrument. The
artist displays her undeniable mastery with this traditional
instrument both with her own compositions and as a performer. East
and West meet to create what, rather than ethnic music, could be
defined as New Instrumental Music with a relaxing touch and an
ambient atmosphere. This is an interesting release that
undoubtedly will appeal to a wide audience.
WINONA SIRTIS

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have to use this link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/61630/thesciencebookbo

VIDNA OBMANA:
"THE CONTEMPORARY NOCTURNE"
Hypnos
With the collaboration of Jim Cole, Joris de Backer and Steve
Roach, vidnaObmana continues with his former work, releasing what
could be considered a Second Part of his previous CD "The Surreal
Sanctuary", once again emphasizing the avantgarde and atmospheric
trends the artist has chosen to follow, with a creativity that can
hardly be surpassed. His music, mysterious, full of secret
emotions, creates a soundscape of a dark nature, uneasy,
nocturnal, and at the same time very complex that will no doubt
attract the lovers of experimental music with Ambient, New
Instrumental Music and ethnic touches.
SIGRID BAUMANN

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have to use this link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/artist-glance/-/121097/thesciencebookbo

TALES (JEAN LUC HERVÉ BERTHELOT:
"ECHOES FROM THE LAST FAIRYLAND"
Somewhere in time Records
This album by composer Jean Luc Hervé is one of the seven CDs
released so far within the series "Tales". In this occasion the
artist devotes his eight compositions to the magic world of fairy
tales, and Celtic legends from Merlin to Elves, myths and magic.
Utilizing the keyboards, percussion, digital delay live, and
ethereal vocals, Hervé creates a universe of fantasy which is
beautifully evoking of a magic world, suggestive, dreamy. Among
his other albums in this series mention must be made of such CDs
as "Pictures of Asia", "Interstellar Memories" and "Abstract
Knowledge", to name a few. This new release will certainly please
the followers of Hervé's series as well as the lovers of mythical,
evocative music.
ARIADNA MARTIN

TALES
Tales is the musical project by French musician Jean-Luc Hervé
Berthelot, a keyboardist/synthesist and guitarist who practises an
atmospheric, ambient style. His influences include Vangelis, Klaus
Schulze, Eno, and several representatives of British rock.
Essential recordings:
-PICTURES OF ASIA
-STONEHENGE FOR ETERNITY
-INTERSTELLAR MEMORIES
-MARCO POLO. A LIFE FOR A DREAM.
-ECHOES FROM THE LAST FAIRYLAND

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

http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=tales

VASCO MARTINS:
"APEIRON"
VM Productions / Fisheye Music Production
Recorded live in Cape Verde on December,1999, Vasco Martins draws
his inspiration from Greek philosopher Anaximander and his concept
of "Apeiron", that is, the Indefinite, so as to create a kind of
music that leads the listener to reach this basically abstract
idea, the essential entity of the world, that which conforms all
the matter in the universe. The eleven tracks included in the CD
display then, an ethereal air, experimental, cosmic, subtly
perceptible, inducing meditation and perhaps relaxation in a slow,
peaceful way. The music created by Vasco Martins in this CD is
therefore floating between the avantgarde, the experimentation of
sound, the transcendental, with touches of New Instrumental Music,
Ambient and Space Music, and will no doubt please a wide audience.
ARIELLE MALREAUX

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have to use this link:

http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=vasco+martins

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CONTENTS:

NEWS

SOFIA GUBAIDULINA

REVIEWS:
EUROCK / VARIOUS: "EUROCK: THE GOLDEN AGE" (Audio CD / CD-ROM)
Eurock
KLAUS SCHONNING: "STARS IN THE NIGHT" Fonix Musik
JIM BRICKMAN: "MY ROMANCE" Windham Hill Records
ROBIN SPIELBERG: "DREAMING OF SUMMER" Playmountain Music
BRUNO SANFILIPPO: "SUITE PATAGONIA" AD21
JUAN CARLOS GARCIA: "THE LEGEND OF THE SOLAR ANGELS" Pulsar
Studios
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NEW RELEASES / RE-RELEASES / DISTRIBUTIONS
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Enya: "A Day Without Rain"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000050XEI/thesciencebookbo

Delerium: "Poem" (Limited edition) (Box set)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005176T/thesciencebookbo

Angels Of Venice & Carol Tatum: "Music For Harp"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000056N2T/thesciencebookbo

"Huronic Minor" is the title of a work of Ambient music composed
by Matt Borghi. Inspired by a terrible storm in 1913, the six
pieces suggest slow recorded images of the unrestrained fury of
the natural elements.
For more information:
http://bgrouprecords.com
The work can be purchased here securely online:
http://www.mp3.com/mattborghi

Kazue Sawai at the koto, Michel Doneda at the saxo and Tetsu
Saitoh at the bass developed some improvisations of experimental
music during a concert near Tokio in 1999. "Live at Hall Egg Farm"
gathers the surprising music these artists created.
More information here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004TS1Q/thesciencebookbo

"The Empty Bowl" is a collection of themes with a meditative, deep
air, performed by Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin with the Shakuhachi
flute, an instrument linked to Japanese religious practices since
the fourteenth century that is believed to have been introduced in
this country from China more than a thousand years ago.
More information here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000040JG2/thesciencebookbo

Musicians Elliott Sharp, John Kruth, Jonathan Segel and Atilla
Engin regal us in "Moon Dog Girl" a refreshing journey to the most
exotic frontiers of Jazz. In their vigorous music we find elements
from Rock, World Music and New Instrumental Music, among other
styles.
More information here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000040JG3/thesciencebookbo

Greg C. Powers at the trombone and Stuart Dempster with a
Didgeridoo with John Diamond integrate the nucleus of Pran. In
their album "Raga for the rainy season" these artists improvise on
a basis established by Mian Tansen, a musician of the sixteenth
century, following ancient Hindi techniques of musical
experimentation.
More information here:
http://www.sparklingbeatnik.com

"Blue" is a special release in four CDs that gathers recordings by
Robert Fox and David Wright, two masters of current electronic
music. Dominated.by melodic symphonism, the pieces tend to be very
warm, wondrous, full of emotions, and colored by a subtle
romanticism, as well as somewhat melancholy.
More information here:
http://www.admusic.ltd.uk

"The Church of Gary Numan: a Dark Celebration" is a tribute that
Jim Collins makes to Gary Numan and his music. In it he pays
attention to the different aspects in the style of this great
artist, as well as to all that lies in his musical creations. An
exquisitely elaborated CD, which will no doubt appeal to the fans
of Gary Numan.
More information here:
http://www.churchofgarynuman.com

The Canadian Electroacoustic Community has presented a double CD
that gathers interesting electroacoustic compositions by 32
artistas coming from about ten nations. "Presence II", the title
of this album, represents a magnificient opportunity to reflect
the task that these experimental artists of sound have been
developing in the last years.
More information here:
http://cec.concordia.ca

After five years of silence in releases, the peculiar band
Birdsons of the Mesozoic presents their album "Petrophonics", an
imaginative journey through lost islands somewhere between Rock
and New Music.
More information here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004WF2L/thesciencebookbo

Trajedesaliva is a band that creates bold, fresh music, which
cannot fit any given genre. On a basis containing elements of
Progressive Rock and New Instrumental Music, they experiment with
musical architecture and the poetry of some enigmatic lyrics, yet
at the same time succeeding in providing their compositions with a
great beauty and emotion. In their new CD "Mima" they do indeed
prove this.
More information here:
ovocompra@...

Arto Tuncboyaciyan is a musician of Armenian origin who lived in
Turkey and settled in the USA twenty years ago. Throughout his
career he has travelled the paths between Jazz and World Music,
and has collaborated as a performer with numerous first rate
artists. among them Paul Winter. Now, in his album "Every Day is a
New Life", freshly released by Earth Music Productions, he
condenses all his personal experience in the form of a collection
of ballads that range from his ethnic roots to Jazz, New
Instrumental Music and symphonic classicism.
More information here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000055XTQ/thesciencebookbo

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SOFIA GUBAIDULINA

Composer Sofia Gubaidulina, born in Chistopol, at the Tatar
Republic of the ex-Soviet Union, in 1931, of a Tatar father and a
Russian mother, began her musical studies at the Conservatorium of
Kazan, and later specializes in composition with Nikolai Peiko at
the Conservatoire of Moscow, where she gets her music degrees
under the tutelage of Vissarion Shebalin.

A resident in Moscow until 1992, this same year she moves to the
city of Hamburg, in Germany, where she will settle.

Her work in the field of composition is characterized by the
tactile exploration and improvisation based on the folkloric
elements typical of the Caucasian, Russian and Asian cultures,
using several ritual instruments that the artist has collected
together with the ensemble Astreia, of which she is a co-founder,
with her friends Victor Suslina and Vyacheslav Artyomov, in 1975.

The composer, experimenting with musical tempo and these
instruments, attains sonic responses that up to then had been
unknown to any musicians, in a creativity that takes the best
advantage of all the tools available to it, from the most
traditional to the most avantgarde.

Likewise, this special interest to compose that has taken her to
international recognition, has been stimulated by her particular
personalization and internalization of the Western techniques
typical of the New Music, that the artist has absorbed fast
enough, this being a typical trait of all the composers in her
country and generation, in a post-Stalin era that gave way to
these Western influences in the cultural universe of these
countries. On the other hand, Gubaidulina has a tremendous faith
in the mystic proprieties of music. All this will no doubt be
reflected on her music.

Due to her particular conception of musical creativity, the artist
was not very well regarded by the Soviet musical authorities, even
though several performers supported her music, up to the point
that in the early eighties it would become internationally known
in the Western world, mostly thanks to the efforts that to this
end made Gidon Kreme, with his enthusiastic defense of her violin
concert "Offertorium".

Among her works mention must be made of her several symphonic and
choral pieces, two cello concerts, various string trios and
quartets, several compositions for an ensemble of percussion, and
a considerable amount of works for unusual instruments and
combinations of instruments. In her scores the composer explores
unconventional techniques in the production of diverse sounds.

Since she obtained the permission to travel to the Western
countries in 1985, Sofía Gubaidulina's recognition as a New Music
composer has grown in a spectacular way. After being commissioned
several works from the prestigious Festivals of Berlin, Helsinki,
and Holland, the Congressional Library of the United States, as
well as many other organizations and ensembles all over the world,
in 1991 she participates in the Turin Settembre Musica Festival,
besides her taking part in other events all over Europe, Russia,
Japan, and North America.

Gubaidulina is a member of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin and
the Freie Akademie der Kunste in Hamburg, among other
associations. Also, she has been awarded the Prix de Monaco
(1987), the Koussevitsky International Record Award (1989; 1994),
the Premio Franco Abbiato (1991), the Heidelberger
Kunstlerinnenpreis (1991), the Russian State Prize (1992), the
SpohrPreis (1995), the Praemium Imperiale (1998) and the Sonning
Prize (1999), among others.

ESSENTIAL WORKS: Orchestra: "Aus dem Stundenbuch" (1991); "And:
The Festivities at Their Height" ("Und: Das Fest ist in vollem
Gang") (1993); "Concert for a Symphonic Orchestra and Jazz Band";
"Figures of Time" (Zeitgestalten) (1994); "Offertorium" (1980-86);
Vocal/choral works: "Halleluya" (1990); Fatseliya (1956); Chamber
and solo instrument(s): "Allegro Rustico" (1963); "Concordanza"
(1971); "De Profundis" (1978) for soloist bayan; Percussion:
"Descensio" (1981); "At the Beginning It Was Rhythm" (1984); "Pari
e dispari" (1991).

(By Montse Andreu)

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only have to use this link:

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AMAZING SOUNDS MAILORDER SERVICE
In Amazing Sounds we receive many messages from our readers asking us
about how to purchase
some of the CDs reviewed in our magazine. We have a mailorder service in
order to improve the
distribution of some of these records wanted by our readers. You can now
mail order some of these
CDs.

Available CDs:

PROGRAM@:
ASHES

MC2:
ENERGY

JOSEPH LOIBANT:
SINE

PLASTHA´S MOUNTAGE:
PROTOPLASTHA´S

AT-MOOSS:
MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS 1
MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS 2
MORPHING SYNTHESIZERS 3

FRANK VAN BOGAERT:
DOCKING

LUIS ALBERTO NARANJO:
BLUE LIFE (CDR)

DOM F. SCAB:
INNERSEED

IURY LECH:
A BITE IN THE COMMON SENSE
SERIAL CASTRATI
ASPERSIONS BY INSTINCT (2CD)

LAKVEET & SCAB:
SILENT MARS

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REVIEWS:

EUROCK / VARIOUS:
"EUROCK: THE GOLDEN AGE" (Audio CD / CD-ROM)
Eurock
A marvellous opportunity to access 1500 articles and reviews that
reflect the evolution of the new musics since 1973, the year when
the first issue of the American fanzine "Eurock", until the year
2000. Archie Patterson, the creator of "Eurock",began to publish
this magazine in 1973 as a means to express the new musical trends
that in those times were being shaped in Germany and that would
not take long to become widespread with equal strength on other
countries in Europe as well as the USA. As time went by, the
public interest in these musics grew and Eurock also became a
powerful distributor and even a label. Only by having the
collection of articles and reviews available, the CD already is a
must for whoever wishes to know about the history of the great
legends of electronic music and symphonic rock. Furthermore, the
CD includes video and audio clips that present live performances
by Amon Duul II, Popol Vuh and Urban Sax, little known photos of
charismatic artists, releases, and even forty minutes of music by
Hiro Kawahara, that can be listened to as normal audio tracks from
a standard CD device. To access the CD-ROM section through the
program that enables their readings the requirements are Windows
95 or 98, or Mac OS 8.0.
JORGE MUNNSHE
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http://www.eurock.com

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KLAUS SCHONNING:
"STARS IN THE NIGHT"
Fonix Musik
Klaus Schonning offers us a masterful album inspired in the
vastness of space. Using a varied range of synthesizers, acoustic
and electric guitars, zithers, accordions, glockenspiel, chimes,
harps, and other percussion and folk instruments, the artist
blends them all together into a relaxing flow of harmonic
melodies, from where music floats dreamily into a voyage through
the starry universe along its 7 tracks. All this, with the usual
mastery displayed by Schonning, whose peculiar style blends form
and rhythm with the flow of inspired electronic effects.In all, a
CD that ranges from Space Music to New Age Music with touches of
New Instrumental Music, apt both for relaxation and meditation,
which takes the listener through a delightful journey into the
Universe, and will no doubt appeal to a wide audience.
MONTSERRAT ANDREU-MARIN

KLAUS SCHONNING
Danish musician Klaus Schonning is one of the best known pioneers
of New Instrumental Music and of New Age Music in Denmark. Born in
1954, his musical talent was precociously revealed. In his
childhood he already played the piano and composed music. His
first album appeared in 1979. In his music, he basically uses
synthesizers, although he also utilizes traditional acoustic
instruments.
Essential recordings:
-LYDGLIMT
-CYCLUS
-NASAVU
-LOCRIAN ARABESQUE
-ARCTIC LIGHT
-SYMPHODYSSE
-SYMPHODYSSE II
-SYMPHODYSSE III
-SYMPHODYSSE IV
-MAGIC CAFE
-ENDLESS CORRIDOR
-COPENHAGEN
-RUNE QUEST
-STARS IN THE NIGHT

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JIM BRICKMAN:
"MY ROMANCE"
Windham Hill Records
In this album, recorded live during the concert the artist offered
at the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah, on March, 2000,
Jim Brickman offers us a selection of his most romantic themes.
The fourteen pieces in the CD show Brickman's mastery with the
piano, and some of the tracks include the collaboration of such
artists as Olivia Newton-John, Anne Cochran, Dave Koz, Tracy
Silverman and Donny Osmond.
SIMONETTA VALLI

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ROBIN SPIELBERG:
"DREAMING OF SUMMER"
Playmountain Music
Robin Spielberg offers us twelve themes in this album of piano
solos, released by her own label, Playmountain Music. Drawing her
inspiration from the summer season, her favourite, the artist
paints a delightful soundscape in a masterful way. Each one of the
tracks included in the album reaches the listener with an air full
of emotions, refreshing and brimming with soft textures and
colors, romanticism and hope. Aimed at a wide audience, this CD
will no doubt appeal to the followers of New Instrumental Music
with some minimalist touches, and a few brush-strokes of New
Age/Ambient music.
EMMA DORS.

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BRUNO SANFILIPPO:
"SUITE PATAGONIA"
AD21
Bruno Sanfilippo shapes in music the legends and the European
discovery of Patagonia in this wonderful Suite with ethnic airs
weaving a colorful tapestry with the use of keyboards,
synthesizers, samplers, and native instruments, resulting into a
musical epic where the native viewpoints  and the adventure of
Magallanes and other conquerors or explorers, the European
"civilizing" zeal and the indigenous traditions paint a musical
homage to these lands. The seven themes in the CD reflect the
history of the country, together with a bilingual leaflet (Spanish
and English) explaining the history of the conquerors, Magellan's
voyage, the myths and traditions of the natives, and will no doubt
appeal to the followers of New Instrumental Music with ethnic
touches.
ARIADNA MARTIN

JUAN CARLOS GARCIA:
"THE LEGEND OF THE SOLAR ANGELS"
Pulsar Studios
Juan Carlos García dedicates this album to the Solar Angels, who
give him his musical inspiration to create an ethereal, celestial
music, so as to guide the listener to cosmic dimensions of Light
and Love. The seven tracks that are included in this CD constitute
a succession of peaceful, meditative themes, leading to the peace
of mind, relaxation and meditation,  in the purest style of New
Age Music with mystic and cosmic touches that will no doubt appeal
to the followers of this musical genre.
ARIELLE MALREAUX.

FERNANDO STRING:
"ESPACIOS SERENOS"
Producciones String
In this album, Fernando String offers us fourteen themes devoted
to relaxation, meditation and personal growth, a very adequate
selection both for sessions in psychotherapy and music therapy, as
well as to enjoy peaceful atmospheres with ambient soundscapes, at
times with cosmic touches, within the New Instrumental and New Age
Music. Ethnic instruments blend with synthesizers and percussion,
flutes or guitars, thus creating beautiful, dreamy melodies, at
times fulkl of emotion, with romantic or rhythmic textures, which
occasionally incorporate natural sounds such as the flow of water.
This CD will no doubt appeal to the followers of this musical
genre.
ARIELLE MALREAUX.

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NEWS

VIOLA KRAMER. Viola Kramer explores new performing techniques and
new musical sonorities by means of experimentation utilizing all
the advantages that modern technology makes available to human
creativity in the musical arena.

REVIEWS:
ZERO OHMS: "ATMA-SPHERIC SURFACES" ZOP
DJAM KARET: "REFLECTIONS FROM THE FIREPOOL" Cuneiform Records
ERIK WOLLO: "GUITAR NOVA" (Re-release) Spotted Peccary Studios /
Brain Laughter

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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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NEWS

The CDs "Binary secrets" by Dom F. Scab, "The sound museum" by
Chuck van Zyl and "Pulse n atmo" byVir Unis are at the pressing
plant. These albums will be available within two weeks.

Vidna Obmana's webmaster has updated the Vidna Obmana mp3.com page
with the second batch in the anthology 1992-1994 series,
exclusively for the mp3-page. Five new songs are available.

Bang On the Can All-Star members Maya Beiser (cello) and Steven
Schick (percussion) release their first CD of music. All of the
compositions were commissioned by and written for their duo. This
disc features new works by five composers including Jack Body (New
Zealand), Nick Didkovsky (USA), Chinary Ung (Cambodia), George
Lewis (USA), and Franghis Ali-Zade (Azerbaijan). The disc
entitled, Caught by the Sky with Wire, ranges from pieces
influenced by world music to the gritty, electronic sounds of Nick
Didkovsky.

NEW RELEASES / RE-RELEASES / DISTRIBUTIONS
(For more information and sound clips, use the links)

Patrick O'Hearn: "So Flows The Current"

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Danny Wright: "Soul Mates"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000054A4S/thesciencebookbo

Sacred Spirit series: "Sacred Spirit II"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005176Y/thesciencebookbo

John Tesh: "Pure Orchestra"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000560S9/thesciencebookbo

Adiemus: "Adiemus IV: The Eternal Knot"

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VIOLA KRAMER

Viola Kramer explores new performing techniques and new musical
sonorities by means of experimentation utilizing all the
advantages that modern technology makes available to human
creativity in the musical arena.

IN THE BEGINNING OF HER MUSIC CAREER

Viola Kramer completes her musical studies at the Higher School Of
Music in Rheinland, together with professors Shivanat Mishra and
Pandit Prakash Maharaj. In 1984 she joins the Bass E Tronic Band,
and this same year she founds the band Double X Project with Peter
Sonntag. Likewise, the band goes on a tour with the Music Ensemble
from Benares. In 1985 she engages on a new tour with her band
Double X Project and releases a solo album. In 1986 she makes the
soundtrack for the video "Ada Grafin Lovelance" and participates
in a radio program. The following year she is awarded the "Golden
Camera Award" from Chicago for her video "Ada Grafin Lovelance",
and she releases another two albums with the band Double X
Project. Likewise, she collaborates with several musical
workshops. Also in this year the artist participates in Ars
Electronica with her works "Chain Reaction", which lasts
approximately seven minutes and nineteen seconds, and "If Misfits
Wear It", a piece with a total running time of ten minutes thirty
seconds. In 1988 she develops new projects, among them one for
television, and organizes a new tour, this time to Canada, with
Double X Project. Also, she creates new movie soundtracks, and
continues with her studio work, while at the same time she
collaborates in an album with the band "People in Sorrow". Viola
also composes the soundtrack for the musical documentary
"Alemania-Bolivia". Her activity extends to the performance of
live concerts with other bands. In 1989 she gives a solo
performance and engages a new tour with Double X Project and with
SSP. This same year she is awarded a prize for her composition
"Raindogs Awaikin'", a piece with which she contacts once again
the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz. The artist engages a new
tour with "Appel a Tous" in France, and participates at the St.
Remy Festival with Ami Denio and Katie O'Looney (New York).

NEW SOUND WORLDS

Viola shows a deep interest in the combination of acoustic
instruments with the electronic medium, looking for new sonorities
that sometimes mean for the listener to learn to listen from
scratch so as to be able to understand her complex musical and
sonic creations.

As she herself explains, her music has the qualities typical of
chamber music, in a fusion that integrates the electronic
technology with the traditional concept of chamber music.

In her musical research, the artist compares the kind of sonic
modulations of the acoustic instruments with the electronic ones,
finding that acoustics influences the sound in a spontaneous
manner according to the kind of room where this sound has its
ressonance, at the same time depending on the tempo and the sonic
production of the ensemble. This fact implies for her to
instinctively carry out the necessary "corrections" of the sound,
based on experience.

As the artist claims, it is not enough to play the adequate note
in the precise moment, but rather the musician must be able to
control her instrument tending to virtuosity of performance
whenever it is feasible. To her, nowadays there are too many
fanaticists of technology who neglect this aspect, above all among
the musicians specializing on keyboards. The artist claims that to
be a virtuoso one must learn how to play a pre-programmed sound as
fast as possible without losing control of the modulation of this
sound

Viola considers that electronic sounds do not have the same "body"
that is for instance produced with a bass or with a violin or a
saxo, which does not permit it to expand and fill the room in the
same way as the sound produced by acoustic instruments, such as
could be done with a Stradivarius. Kramer prefers to work starting
from a conceptiom of the room where she creates her music as if it
were a ressonance box where, with the help of 24 computer
controlled hi-fi equipments, she can manipulate the sounds in the
most adequate manner in each case.

Her musical experiments include what she calls "Zeiträume",
techniques defined as"irritations to the listener and irrational
effects",  among which most remarkable is the one that tricks the
audience by making them believe, for instance, that they hear the
time beaten according to the parameters that are normal for them
at a human level, when in actual fact what they hear is the time
beaten by a computer at a higher volume than that of a
conventional acoustic instrument such as the piano, thus proving
the fact that the human hearing tends to filter the sound produced
by machines and reduce it to parameters that the human mind can
cope with. In this way, the artist creates electronic poliphony in
real time, where the contrast between subjective time clashes with
the objective time  of the machine by tricking the senses. To her,
auditive psychology is an interesting field to explore.

(By Montse Andreu)

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REVIEWS

ZERO OHMS:
"ATMA-SPHERIC SURFACES"
ZOP
Somehow, this music is perceived as nocturnal. This does
not imply the fact that it is sinister, although there are
some pieces where it certainly is so. Most of the time, the
themes give out a mixture of nocturnal aromas, dominated by
the presence of the stars in the sky, the legends about the
creatures of the night, the relative nocturnal quiet and
silence, as well as the way we think and feel at early
dawn, sometimes very different from what we would feel and
think in full daylight.
EDGAR KOGLER

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DJAM KARET:
"REFLECTIONS FROM THE FIREPOOL"
Cuneiform Records
Each of the nine themes that constitute the CD portray the
creativity of the members of Djam Karet, and their
unsurpassed skills to combine the psychedelic qualities of
Progressive Rock with Pop rhythms and New Instrumental
Music. The rhythmic diversity, the melodic inventiveness,
as well as the brilliant character of their imaginary
quests to distant places and times make of this album a
must in the collection of the followers of Djam Karet in
particular, as well as that of the fans of New Instrumental
Music in general.
EMMA DORS

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ERIK WOLLO:
"GUITAR NOVA" (re-release)
Spotted Peccary Studios / Brain Laughter
Erik Wollo has composed a fine work that can be labelled within
the New Instrumental Music for guitar. The 14 compositions
included in this album by him have a symphonic melodic character,
with romantic parts and other mysterious ones. There also appear
classical and Ambient elements. The music is not static, but it
flows at a medium speed. The rhythmic structure is based on the
guitar and harbors the melody within itself. The music is pleasant
to listen to and will no doubt appeal to those who enjoy the
guitar as a soloist instrument. In my opinion, "Source" is the
most imaginative theme.
PASCUAL JURADO

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Happy 2001!

CONTENTS:

THE AQUATIC ADVENTURE OF NEURONIUM. MICHEL HUYGEN PRESENTS
"HYDRO". Michel Huygen (Neuronium) has created a superb album of
electronic music, characterized, among other things, by an unusual
and profound manipulation of sound.

REVIEWS:
NEURONIUM: "HYDRO" Konga Music
MICHEL HUYGEN: "DROIT AU COEUR" Tuxedo Music
JONN SERRIE: "CENTURY SEASONS" Miramar Recordings
ROEDELIUS: "ROEDELIUSWEG" Prudence / BSC Music

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THE AQUATIC ADVENTURE OF NEURONIUM.
MICHEL HUYGEN PRESENTS "HYDRO".

Michel Huygen (Neuronium) has created a superb album of
electronic music, characterized, among other things, by an
unusual and profound manipulation of sound. Water in its
multiple manifestations (oceans, rivers, lakes, streams)
and what it means to our planet is the theme that has
inspired him and on which he has shaped his artistic
impressions.

In a time when every electronic sound with an acoustic
aspect comes from samplers, few synthesists seem to be able
to sculpt sounds of an acoustic appearance directly on the
synthesizer. Although to record "Hydro", Michel Huygen
utilized samplers as well, some of the most remarkable and
"acoustic" sounds in the CD were created by him by means of
his skilled manipulation of the processes of electronic
synthesis. Thus, for instance, the female solo vocals in
"Regina Maris" is neither a true human voice, nor even a
sampled one. It is a sound created by Michel. On the other
hand, some of the water noises heard in several points of
the album are not real, nor are they sampled ones, but
rather, once again, an illusion that this composer, like
the good sound ceramist he is, knows how to create. The
Real and the Unreal are blended and intertwined in this CD.
The fact that Huygen succeeds in deceiving our ears up to
such a point, makes him into a sort of magician of
synthesizers, capable of giving audible life to The
Impossible.

As is usual in his latest releases, Michel himself has
taken care of the graphic design. The cover idealizes in an
almost mystic way the vital element that features this
album. The back cover includes a remarkable, ethereal
metamorphosis of Michel's face, which appears to evoke
Captain Nemo or the god Neptune. The design extends as well
to the compact disc itself, which seems to be like the
surface of a raft. It should be remembered that Michel
Huygen was one of the first electronic artists to abandon
the standart aesthetic patterns of CDs for his releases, as
well as those of their cases, thus obtaining a further
scope to develop his artistic ideas.

"Directo al corazón" ("Droit au coeur"), released some
months before "Hydro", was a much expected album, since in
it Michel Huygen intended to summarize the more "cyber-
romantic" trends in his music, that is to say, those pieces
that, without diverging from a cosmic perspective, possess
an important emotive load. In this sense, Huygen has
achieved the shaping of his own romantic style, like only a
few artists have been able to do, among whom mention must
be made of Vangelis or Kitaro.

The collaboration by Pascal Languirand in the CD also
raised great expectations. Pascal Languirand, an active
electronic composer since the seventies, became specially
famous with the world hit of his theme "Living on Video" by
Trans-X, composed by him. The collaboration between these
two great artists of the musical avantgarde has been shaped
in the song "Sólo pensando en tí".

The success of this release has become obvious given the
fact that the first release was sold out after merely a
month of international distribution.

The sudden success of Huygen in Brazil continues to grow. A
proof of this is given by the indigenous re-releases of his
albums, such as for instance "Infinito" (which has a new
cover, by the way), or the compilation "Neoromance".

It is not unusual that the works by Huygen have a large
appeal for the general audience. The music by Michel, far
from the constraints dictated by fashions, continues to
gain new listeners, no matter whether they are new or old
themes. Although this is a hardly commercial kind of music,
even anti-commercial music according to many of the
criteria of the recording industry, he has connected with
the audience so well during these almost twenty-five years,
that as these lines are being written, the amount of albums
sold is on the threshold of a million. With practically a
million of records sold, Michel is thus found among the few
authors of electronic music that have reached that volume
of record difussion, a reduced club to which such artists
as Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream and some
other first-rate artists belong. As this article is being
written, the best selling album by Huygen is Psykya.

Of course, the visits to the web of Neuronium, designed and
carefully maintained by Michel, are a must for any follower
of his music, or simply for anyone wishing to voyage on a
web designed per se as a work of art. Even though it
accomplishes its function as a source for basic information
about the artist, the web page of Neuronium, which is
registering a really high number of visits, constitutes a
good opportunity to get to know an excellent example of
interactive web-art. The web also includes links to the
virtual galleries of cosmic and supernatural paintings by
Tomás Gilsanz, a graphic artist related for many years with
the audiovisual performances by Neuronium. To access the
official web of Neuronium as well as others related to
Huygen, the best advice is to visit:

http://www.cybernium.com

During these last months, Michel has been quite in contact
with Constance Demby, due to her moving to Spain. This
composer has settled both her residence and her work place
near to where he lives, and this geographical nearness,
together with their friendship and their artistic
compatibility foretells interesting collaborations in the
future.

Michel is already working on what is to become his new
release: "Azizi". The African origin of this word that
gives its name to the album, represents in a way an
aknowledgement to the culture of the place that saw his
birth, since, even if he has spent most of his life in
Europe, his birthplace was Africa. Using for the title this
word of the language he came to fluently know in a time of
his life, Michel tenderly recalls the memories of his early
childhood, as an acknowledgement to several African
cultural elements that, somehow, have been absorbed by the
dominant culture of the industrialized nations without
recognizing their genuine origins. At the same time, this
being his thirtieth album in his career, it seems to be the
appropriate moment to have a look to an intense life as
well as meditate a little on the circumstances of one's
coming to this world themselves.

(By: Jorge Munnshe)

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REVIEWS:

NEURONIUM:
"HYDRO"
Konga Music
Michel Huygen (Neuronium) has always shown a powerful
imagination when it comes to creating new universes of
music and sound. And this album is a perfect example of
this fact. Planned as a symphony inspired by water and
everything it means for our world, "Hydro" evokes to the
point of perfection a voyage through the most spectacular
lakes, the wildest, most wondrous waterfalls, the most
beautiful rivers, the most impressive glaciers, and of
course, the oceans in all their vastness. It is difficult
to create instrumental music that transmits the visual
messages that this CD contains with the neatness found in
"Hydro". What turns out to be most astounding is the fact
that Huygen has not resorted to the obvious solution of
incorporating water sounds as a decorative background of
the music, something always passive, but rather he has
transformed the very water sounds themselves into
instruments that perform part of the melody or the rhythm.
To achieve this is extremely difficult, not only from the
artistic point of view, but also from the technical one.
Acting as a magician of sound, Huygen makes us listen to
such impossible sonic events as the sound of snowflakes
falling gently onto the ground, the whispering of water
drops moving within the sea, or the canticles of sirens. As
if he were sculpting liquid water, he manipulates the
watery sounds so that they adopt solid forms, of diverse
textures and timbres. From the lush of a tropical lake to
the enigmas of the ocean abysses, the listener is taken to
a journey overflowing with emotions. Although Huygen did
not plan "Hydro" as an obscure work, there is no lack of
mysterious passages, where one can, for instance, feel as
if we were descending into the impenetrable darkness of the
abyssal depths, with ghostly echoes that evoke the sonar of
a submarine, and metallic murmurs that suggest the
threatening pressure of water on a bathyscaph.
JORGE MUNNSHE

MICHEL HUYGEN:
"DROIT AU COEUR"
Tuxedo Music
>From the first moment we listen to this album, it is
obvious that Michel Huygen has loaded a great amount of
feelings in the creation of this CD, which reviews the
essence of the most "cyber-romantic" side of his artistic
trajectory. "Droit au coeur" ("Direct to the heart") also
counts with an interesting incursion of Huygen's into the
sung romantic ballad, under the form of a collaboration
with the composer and singer Pascal Languirand, an
imaginative renovator of electronic music that became
famous specially thanks to his theme "Living on Video"
(Trans-X). "Sólo pensando en tí", which is the title of
this track, combines Languirand's vocals modelled in his
peculiar style between the ethereal and the Gregorian, with
music composed by Huygen. The result shows that both
artists know very well how to combine their respective
potentials to create themes of a high quality at the same
time being easy to listen to, which can reach a very wide
audience. In the same manner as the cybernetic hand on the
cover seems to have a life and warmth of its own, the
collection of compositions in the album has a certain
unearthly nature, yet at the same time it turns out to be
so near to what is human as our own emotions are, as if the
message of the CD were the fact that our feelings are
capable of being projected beyond our condition of mortal
subjects bound to the biological hardships of corporeal
life.
JORGE MUNNSHE

NEURONIUM / MICHEL HUYGEN
Michel Huygen is a Spanish synthesist of Belgian origin who began
his musical career by the early seventies, as a member of several
bands of psychedelic rock. In 1976, he founded the band Neuronium,
together with Carlos Guirao, Albert Giménez and other musicians
who soon after abandoned the band. Giménez left the band after
recording Vuelo Químico (1978), and Guirao also left after
Chromium Echoes (1982). Since then, Huygen is the only member of
Neuronium, accompanied by various musicians occasionally but
composing all the music himself. Some of his albums are signed as
Neuronium, and others with his own name. Huygen has composed movie
soundtracks, has designed synthesizer sounds, and has produced
some other musicians.
Essential recordings:
NEURONIUM:
-QUASAR 2C361
-VUELO QUIMICO
-DIGITAL DREAM
-THE VISITOR
-CHROMIUM ECHOES
-INVISIBLE VIEWS
-HERITAGE
-ALMA
-SUPRANATURAL
-FROM MADRID TO HEAVEN
-NUMERICA
-OLIM
-SYBARIS
-EXTRISIMO
-ONIRIA
-IN LONDON (& Vangelis)
-ALMA (WITH CD-ROM TRACK)
-A SEPARATE AFFAIR (& Vangelis)
-PSYKYA
-ALIENIKON
-HYDRO
MICHEL HUYGEN:
-ABSENCE OF REALITY
-CAPTURING HOLOGRAMS
-BARCELONA 1992
-ELIXIR
-INTIMO
-EN BUSCA DEL MISTERIO
-INFINITO
-MUSICA PARA LA BUENA MESA
-ASTRALIA (& Fernando Jiménez del Oso)
-INTIMO (THE DEFINITIVE EDITION)
-SONAR
-ULTRACOSMOS
-DROIT AU COEUR

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JONN SERRIE:
"CENTURY SEASONS"
Miramar Recordings
"Century Seasons" is a two-CD retrospective featuring
eigtheen themes from his previous albums, two of which are
new tunes - "Deep Mystery", to appear on a future album,
"Lumia Nights", and "Andromeda Dream", specially composed
for this occasion. The tracks have been remixed and
redesigned so that the music flows in a consistent,
uninterrupted stream of cosmic soundscapes which can be
defined as the best Space Music ever.The electronic
textures, the subtle bits of melody and rhythm, flow in a
floating, timeless, swirling continuous cosmic throb, with
dreamy touches and romantic shades, taking us though the
magic of a multi-dimensional,wondrous experience. From the
darkness of deep space to the brigtness of stars, Serrie's
music has an energy that gives the listener the feeling of
belonging into an eternal, endless pulse of an ever-
expanding universe, leading our imagination through the
immensity of the cosmos in a tireless quest in the realms
of wonder. Mostly ambient space music, the themes weave a
tapestry like an extended science-fiction romantic
fairytale, a musical adventure taking place in the
fictional , mysterious lands of Ixlandia and Indra, a
starship voyage across the universe of space and time,
shrouded in the ethereal sounds that aid us in our
exploration of new imaginary worlds. In all this no doubt
is a real must for the lovers of this musical genre.
MONTSE ANDREU-MARIN

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ROEDELIUS:
"ROEDELIUSWEG"
Prudence / BSC Music
Hans-Joachim Roedelius himself has composed, played,
arranged and recorded most of the themes in this album, in
his home studio in Austria, which includes the later
contribution of his collaborators Fabio Capanni and Eric
Spitzer-Marlin with their characteristic guitar tracks .His
music is, as usual, compelling, experimental at times,
avantgarde, true to his roots, and all this shows his very
personal style in each piece. Truly, as he once said, "My
solo work is an expression of my experience of life, a
self-portrait, a confession!" The ten themes in the CD
clearly illustrate this point, besides showing the
influence of the grooves of the younger generation, yet
ever retaining his personal approach to creativity in the
realms of avantgarde, electronic and New Instrumental
Music. With his Ambient/Trance highly influential work,
this album is no doubt a worthy addition to collection of
the fans of this legendary German composer.
MONTSE ANDREU-MARIN

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HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS
German musician Hans-Joachim Roedelius is a pioneer of electronic
and Ambient music. He began as a musician in the late sixties.
Together with Dieter Moebius he integrates the band Cluster, whose
first album, with Conrad Schnitzler, appeared in 1969. In the mid
seventies he initiated his solo career, without abandoning his
work in Cluster, although the activity of the duo has been
decreasing steadily in these last years. Also around the seventies
he began to collaborate with Brian Eno, and he was a member of the
band Harmonia as well, together with Michael Rother and Dieter
Moebius. Roedelius has composed movie soundtracks, has been
involved in several different artistic events, and has
collaborated with several musicians.
Essential recordings:
-DURCH DIE WUESTE
-LUSTWANDEL
-WENN DER SUEDWIND WEHT
-WASSER IM WIND
-OFFENE TUEREN
-MOMENTI FELICI
-BASTIONEN DER LIEBE
-DER OHREN SPIEGEL
-THE ATER WORKS (Hans-Joachim Roedelius and friends)
-LA NORDICA
-PINK, BLUE AND AMBER
-MOVE AND RESONATE (& Alquimia)
-ROEDELIUSWEG

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CONTENTS:

NEWS

ELISE KERMANI. This composer, soprano, improviser and multimedia
artist, specialized in avantgarde performances, utilizes all the
resources that current technology has to offer in the development
of her creativity.

REVIEWS:
FRANK VAN BOGAERT: "DOCKING" Groove
DELAGO: "TRANCEALPIN" Prudence / BSC Music
MICHAEL STEARNS: "SPIRITS OF THE VOYAGE" Earth Turtle Music /
Triton Films
MICHAEL STEARNS: "THE MIDDLE OF TIME" Earth Turtle Music
MICHAEL STEARNS "WITHIN - THE NINE DIMENSIONS" Earth Turtle Music
CUSCO: "ANCIENT JOURNEYS" BSC Music / Prudence

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NEWS

The long time expected new album by ENRIQUE MATEU (a live CD) will
be released in January 2001.

Sonic Network, Inc., (formerly Hruska Audio Productions), makers of
the popular Sonic Implants sound libraries intends to celebrate its
appearance at the NAMM 2001 trade show in January by giving away a
complete Sonic Implants CD-ROM sample library.

The band ARTENARA collaborate in "Tu Frialdad". This album is a
special homage of several musicians and bands to Jesús de la Rosa
(founder of the band Triana), deceased in 1983.

NEW RELEASES / RE-RELEASES / DISTRIBUTIONS
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Vangelis, Kitaro, Yanni, Richard Burmer & others: Cousteau's Dream

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Michael Eckart: "Woman In A Forest"

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Cyber Zen Sound Engine: "Moonscapes: How Stones Become Enlightened"

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ELISE KERMANI

Composer, soprano, improviser and multimedia artist Elise Kermani,
specialized in avantgarde performances, utilizes all the resources
that current technology has to offer in the development of her
creativity, which displays an exquisitely elegant theatrical sense,
always applying electronic effects to transform her peculiar vocal
techniques. By combining sound and poetry with real and imaginary
words, extended vocal techniques and electronic processing of
sounds, together with movement, this artist composes a kind of
music where the sonic sources are pure, clear, and later
transformed into something warm and very special indeed. Kermani
usually performs solo, although she also has collaborated with
renowned video artists, computer programmers and designers, in her
multidisciplinary creations. Likewise, she often collaborates with
the New Music ensemble "Trousers".

Elise Kermani comments on her views about art and the role that
artists have in society: "Artists have the power to transform
themselves and others through the process of making art, and,
through the experience of witnessing the creative product. Artists
have a responsibility to be aware of their physical surroundings,
to be informed of the reality in world situations and in the human
condition. We must strive to be scientists by discovering a new
world and a new language. We have a social responsibility to
incorporate the use of new technology into our work, just as modern
science, business and education has - not as a defensive reaction
to our changing technology, but as an integrated leader."

Kermani receives her musical education, specializing in
Composition, at the DePauw University, in Greencastle, IN (USA),
and graduates with her composition "Lullaby" in 1983.

The works by this composer worth mentioning are the following:

Mandala" (1984), whose score was painted opn a large sheet.

"Crystal Mass" - "Common Language" (1988), a work composed in
collaboration with a sculptor and a choreographer using MasterPiece
software, synthesizer and voice.

"Mass of the Crimson Ark" (1990), composed for four singers, twenty
rock performers and a percussionist.

"THe HearTH" (1991), for three performers and video, where a meal
is prepared, cooked, the table is laid, and everything is burned
onstage, as the sounds are processed live.

"Daughters of Rejection" (1991), for two performers, two musicians,
processed violin, marbles, plastic sheets, drums and voice.
Utilizing texts from the Koran, this work is a homage to the
daughters of the ancient Arab world, and is about a young girl who
comes back from the dead to violently haunt her father.

"Inanna (Ritual of Descent)" (1992), a piece belonging to the New
Music opera "Orpheus and Euridike", directed by Johannes Birringer.
The plot tells about a woman in an asylum trying to speak about her
rape, while several phantoms dialogue with her, and she is ritually
bathed in a plexiglass tub.

"Artem(Is) Rising" (1993), an interactive performance with video,
incorporates texts from the New York Times, the Iran Times, The
Bible and the Coran to create a female vision of sexuality. In this
work the artist utilizes the infrared motion sensor Body Chime to
control the synthesizer sequences together with partial random
sequences.

"Scriptures" (1993), a solo piece incorporatimg texts from the
Coran and the Iran Times, examines the paradox and the politics of
the Chador or Iranian veil imposed on women. In  this work, the
artist collaborates with videoartist Benton Bainbridge.

"Private Eye/Public Hand" (1993), is a sonic
performance/installation in collaboration with multimedia artist
Nancy Meli Walker.

"Mother Tongue" (1994), a solo performance with text and vocal
processing.

Her most recent works imply a reduced number of male and female
characters, each one of whom represents a different aspect of human
emotion through the myths they narrate with their bodies and their
voices in an abstract, supernatural yet clear language. The
interest the artist feels in language is also seen in her solo
performance directed by Rachel Wineberg, with "Dreaming the Page",
a trilogy including "Mother Tongue", "My Father Fell from the Sky"
and "Oh, Oh, Oh Fricative", where she explores the family
relationships with language, this being a performance of a non-
lineal character where Kermani displays her extensive vocal
techniques electronically processed, alternating the characters of
a young man and his mother.

Elise Kermani has supervised the recording of a CD collection
devoted to experimental vocalists, "The DICE Project", under the
label Ishtar Record, of MiShinnah Productions, whose participants
range from solo works to several ensemble pieces and different
bands, to women composers, workshops, lectures and conferences.

Her works have been performed in prestigious institutions, such as
The Kitchen, Experimental Intermedia, The Knitting Factory, La
Galleria, HERE,Dia Center for the Arts,The Roulette, CB's Gallery,
Context, Ward-Nasse Gallery, DCTV, NADA Theatre, Ceres Gallery,
Ohio Theatre, KCRW Radio Columbia University, ABC No Rio, New Radio
and Performing Art, Lotus Fine Arts, The Texas Gallery,
DiverseWorks Artspace, Contemporary Arts Museum, Lawndale
Performance Art Center, Commerce Street Artist's Warehouse, The
Homage Club, The Axiom, Pic-N-Pac, Downtown Grounds, The Artery,
Arts Alive!Access Houston TV, KPFT, KTRU, Randolph St. Gallery, Hot
House, Chicago Filmmakers, Roosevelt University, Experimental Sound
Studio, Cafe Voltaire, Links Hall, Northwestern University, Organic
Theatre, NAPA Conference, LOS ANGELES:LACE (Los Angeles
Contemporary Exhibitions), Beyond Baroque, System 'M', The Llasha
Club, California State University, Harbour College, X=Art, The
Anti-Club, KPFT, KXLU, The Marsh, New Music Across America
(Soundpost), Sonic Disturbance Music Festival, Cleveland
Performance Art Festival. Likewise, her music has been programmed
on different radio stations all over the world.

(By Montse Andreu)

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REVIEWS:

FRANK VAN BOGAERT:
"DOCKING"
Groove
"Docking", the third album written, performed and produced by Frank
Van Bogaert, has just been released by Groove Unlimited. IMHO, it
contains some of the most beautiful music that this artist has
written to date. When one considers the mood of his previous works,
the new one is certainly more intimate, more mature. You'll find
less folk and ethnic influences this time, as well as a little more
piano, and also guitars. Of course, the electronic sounds continue
to be the stars (as usual) but the melodies and sound effects give
us a different range of experiences. We have a complex sonic
architecture now, and there are a couple of themes which sound
specially well. The CD has 11 tracks, 11 themes with a warmth of
sound rarely seen within these types of music. Van Bogaert is one
of the most respected European electronic musicians. Thanks to his
technical background he has engineered all the album. With
"Docking", and with all its melodic and emotional content, he has
shown that he has mastered all the intricacies of this difficult
business.
MANUEL MONTES

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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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DELAGO:
"TRANCEALPIN"
Prudence / BSC Music
Herman Delago presents in this album a musical portrait of the
essence of Tyrolean music where a trance-like state of
consciousness is reflected, thus opening our inner mind to the
spiritual stimuli in our world, to the basic elements of human
nature. The music blends the typical sounds of alphorns with
didgeridoos, brass and percussion, synthesizers and bells, adding
ethnic traits from Asia, Africa and America. The seven piecesin the
CD range from the meditative to the relaxing. Also, some touches of
Minimalism, Techno, World Music, New Age Music, and New
Instrumental Music are masterfully fusioned, thus resulting in a CD
where the forces of nature, the feeling of the sacred spiritual
world, the sense of home and exotic musical traditions take us to a
voyage through soundscapes as varied as life itself..
SIGRID BAUMANN

MICHAEL STEARNS:
"SPIRITS OF THE VOYAGE"
Earth Turtle Music / Triton Films
This CD by Michael Stears is the soundtrack the artist created for
a documentary by Triton films about the magical initiation rites of
Micronesian navigators dating from ancient times , whose
traditions, wisdom, lore and courage has lasted for thousands of
years. The sixteen tracks paint a wondrous soundscape which takes
us throughout space and time sailing the Pacific seas, portraying
the beauty of the islands, the ritual songs and chants made on the
island of Lamotrek, where the filming took place, the prayers of
those about to sail into their quest as well as those from their
loved ones asking for protection from the sea spirits for their kin
about to test their skills on sea... It is indeed a fine addition
to the World Music universe, with its flavor of distant lands and
unknown quests full of the spirits of the sea, with relaxing
touches and soft textures, bringing inner peace and enhancing the
imagination of the listener, an album that will no doubt appeal to
the lovers of this musical style.
MONTSE ANDREU-MARIN

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MICHAEL STEARNS:
"THE MIDDLE OF TIME"
Earth Turtle Music
Michaes Stearns created this beautifully inspiring music as the
soundtrack to the documentary ."The Mystery of Chaco Canyon",
narrated by Robert Redford. The title of the CD reflects the fact
that the ancient ruins sited on the location of the documentary,
Pueblo Bonito, in New Mexico, had been built in a way that marked
the noon sun and equinox, the marking of "the middle of time".The
eighteen pieces in the album reflect the ancient mystery of the
ruins left by the native inhabitants in the distant past. Together
with its subdued textures and soft rhytmic sounds, the melodies
come and go like a sea of time patterns enveloping a mysterious
land. Native American chants are masterfully interwoven in the
music created by Stearns, thus picturing a creative, appalling
soundscape that reaches into the imagination of the listener,
awakening our sense of wonder and reverence for the roots of
ancient peoples and the mystery of those distant times in the past.
Once again, Stearns gives us an inspired work that shares a touch
of World Music with the patterns of New Instrumental Music, a
calming piece of listening to let our imagination relax and fly
free to otherwordly soundscapes.
MONTSE ANDREU-MARIN.

MICHAEL STEARNS
"WITHIN - THE NINE DIMENSIONS"
Earth Turtle Music
"Within - The Nine Dimensions" is the new solo album created by
Michael Stearns, a commission for Barbara Hand Clow of Bear and
Co.The music is based on a system of nine dimensions related to her
book "The Pleiadian Agenda". Using a large Serge synthesizer, bells
and singing bowls from around the world, in the same way as Stearns
had used for the soundtrack to the film "Baraka", the artist has
created nine impressive pieces, with the last one interweaving
elements of the previous eight together, often with several playing
at the same time. After the commission, Stearns created his own
version of the music, resulting in the album we have now. New
Instrumental Music, hand in hand with World Music, regale the
listener with a new, relaxing soundscape apt for meditation and the
enhancement of our awareness, a restful ocean of soft textures that
will no doubt appeal to the lovers of this musical genre.
MONTSE ANDREU-MARIN

MICHAEL STEARNS
Michael Stearns began as a guitarist in the sixties, playing in
rock and jazz bands. In 1968, he composed his first electronic
piece, while he was studying at university. After he completed his
musical studies, he opened a studio where he began to produce his
music together with jingles for the local radio and television
nets. After being a resident artist at the Emily Conrad's Continuum
Studio in 1975 and playing for two years in the free jazz trio
Alivity, he recorded his first album. Since then, he has continued
to release his own records, besides composing soundtracks and
collaborating in other productions.
Essential recordings:
-ANCIENT LEAVES
-SUSTAINING CYLINDERS
-MORNING JEWEL
-PLANETARY UNFOLDING
-LYRA SOUND CONSTELLATION
-LIGHT PLAY
-M'OCEAN
-CHRONOS
-PLUNGE
-FLOATING WHISPERS
-ENCOUNTER
-SACRED SITE
-THE LOST WORLD
-COLLECTED THEMATIC WORKS
-COLLECTED AMBIENT & TEXTURAL WORKS
-THE LIGHT IN THE TREES
-DESERT SOLITAIRE (& Steve Roach & Kevin Braheny)
-SINGING STONES (& Ron Sunsinger)
-BARAKA (& others)
-SPIRITS OF THE VOYAGE
-THE MIDDLE OF TIME
-WITHIN - THE NINE DIMENSIONS

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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/20513/thesciencebookbo

CUSCO:
"ANCIENT JOURNEYS"
BSC Music / Prudence
Michael Holm and Christian Schulze take us once again to imaginary
voyages through their music in "Ancient Journeys". As the title of
the CD indicates, the listener embarks on a dreamy tour to the
past, wrapped in the traditional sounds of ancestral melodies of
the Andes, intertwined with rhythms of New Instrumental Music with
certain touches of Pop. The Cd is a homage to the great explorers
of the past, in nine themes where tribal drums, soaring flutes.
ethereal melodies, ancient musical instruments from all over the
world and the most modern synthesizers weave a wondrousl tapestry
that captures the romance of ancient Spanish galleons and the
Conquistadores, the caravans to Eastern lands with Marco Polo, the
oddyseys of ancestral migrators such as the primitive nomadic
tribes peopling the North of America or Asia, the busy bazaars in
Byzantium, the audacious journes of VAsco Da Gama, the cradle of
civilization in Mesopotamia, The Bulgar Horsemen of the seventh
century, or the great Crusades in the Middle Ages. Kublai Khan and
his Empire, all that with the usual mastery that Cusco has always
displayed for the delight of their fans.
EMMA DORS

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CUSCO
German band Cusco consists basically in Michael Holm and Kristian
Schultze, although both have often enjoyed the participation of
several collaborators. Their music is mainly concentrated on
synthesized sounds, even though in their career they have navigated
through several styles, sometimes near to ethnic music, at other
times to techno, to new age and even to ambient music. Most
remarkable is their particular rhythmic treatment as well as their
use of electronic sounds.
Essential recordings:
-Desert Island
-Cusco II
-Cool Island
-Planet Voyage
-Island Cruise
-Virgin Island
-Concierto de aranjuez
-Tales From A Distant Land
-Apurimac
-Mystic Island
-Ring Der Delphine
-Sielmann 2000
-Water Stories
-Australia
-Apurimac II
-Magic Sound of Cusco
-Cusco Christmas
-Apurimac III
-Ancient Journeys

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CONTENTS:

NEWS

REVIEWS:
THE THIRD PLANET: "THE THIRD PLANET" World Class
ELONIA: "MYSTIC VELVET" Blue Martin Records / Prudence / BSC Music
RASA: "DEVOTION" Hearts of Space
SHAFQAT ALI KHAN: "SHAFQAT ALI KHAN" World Class
JEAN-FRANÇOIS LAPORTE: "MANTRA" Metamkine

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WWW.CYBERNIUM.COM is a new URL index to all official sites related
to Neuronium / Michel Huygen and his activities.
http.//www.cybernium.com

The official web of John Lakveet is online:
http://www.johnlakveet.com

Free samples from Bjorn Lynne's fantasy & sci-fi albums:
http://www.lynnemusic.com

Free samples from Bjorn Lynne's trance/electronica side-project
"Divinorum":
http://www.divinorum.com

The record label SONIC IMAGES is producing a compilation CD of
Romanian new-age / electronic artists.

NEW RELEASES / RE-RELEASES / DISTRIBUTIONS
(For more information and sound clips, use the links)

DREAMING WITH SERPENTS BY GUSTAVO AGUILAR
Gustavo Aguilar is a percussionist, improviser, and composer
dedicated to contemporany music. He has concertizzed in Australia,
Austria, South Korea, and throught the United States, performing
his own improvisational compositions. His solo CD "Dreaming with
serpents", released on the Acoustic Levitation label, features
solo works written for him by Wadada Leo Smith, John Bergamo and
Todd Sickafoose, and duets with the composers written by Gustavo.
This is one unusual album, fresh and innovative, which no doubt
will contribute to increasing the reputation of the artist.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000JJI5/thesciencebookbo

FIRST RELEASE BY THE DANUBIANS
The Danubians is a multi-national band that crosses and blurs the
boundaries of nationality, language and music. In its first, self-
titled release, recorded live in Italy and Hungary during a 1999
tour, the band charts the territory where roots music meets the
avantgarde. This band have masterfully achieved a wonderful blend
of diverse styles.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004WF2K/thesciencebookbo

Michael Stearns / Ron Sunsinger: "Sorcerer"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004WKBS/thesciencebookbo

Erik Wollo: "Guitar Nova"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004YWUB/thesciencebookbo

Eurock - The Golden Age (CD / CD-ROM)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004XSLE/thesciencebookbo

James Johnson: "Entering Twilight"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004YKT3/thesciencebookbo

Jim Brickman: "My Romance: An Evening With Jim Brickman"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004UEHP/thesciencebookbo

PAUL WINTER'S WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION PERFORMANCES
Performances of Paul Winter's 21st Annual Winter Solstice
Celebration, a musical, theatrical and environmental spectacle,
are in the huge Cathedral of St. John the Divine
at 7.30pm on Thursday 14 December
at 7.30pm on Friday 15 December
at 2pm and at 7.30pm on and Saturday 16 December

Paul Winter was honored to be a presenter at the Native American
Music Awards in Albuquerque (New Mexico) on 11 November.

Chuck van Zyl has agreed to release the music of his double
cassette "The sound museum" on Groove Unlimited. Release date is
November/December 2000. The music was previously only available on
cassette under the artist name XISLE with the exception of the
track "Beyond the known horizon" which appeared on Chuck's CD "The
relic".

Lionel Rolfe has just written a book called DEATH AND REDEMPTION
IN LONDON & L.A.  The nephew of the late, great violinist Yehudi
Menuhin, Rolfe's book gives a lot of personal insight into
Menuhin. This book is available only as an ebook here:
http://deadendstreet.com

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REVIEWS:

THE THIRD PLANET:
"THE THIRD PLANET"
World Class
This album consists of an interesting mixture of styles that can
be grouped within the World Music, ranging from Middle Eastern
melodies to European Techno, Indian ragas, Algerian rai, Western
funk, romantic rhythms in the purest Italian essence, or
Industrial Trance ,and even current pop rhythms, all that together
with a futuristic use of electronic instruments, in a masterful
combination with traditional, string or percussive instruments
such as the Kurd saaz, the Indian tabla ,. the Senegalese djembe ,
the Eastern daf or the darboukka, at the same time using the
microtonal scales typical of the Middle East. The members of this
band come from different ethnic groups as well (Kurdistan,
Algeria, India, Iraq and Italy) and are inspired in their music,
working as a craft-workshop, by the different traditions to create
an eclectic brand of music, with converging projects whose aim is
to enrich the audience with the flavor that the music of the many
cultures existing in our world bring, while at the same time
fitting all this into the World Music of the new millenium in the
Western calendar.
WINONA SIRTIS

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link:

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ELONIA:
"MYSTIC VELVET"
Blue Martin Records / Prudence / BSC Music
Elonia is a project by German artist Manfred Brembach within the
frame of New Age or Ambient Music, full of poetry and beauty,
which leads the listener to a world of wondrous soundscapes by
means of the masterful use of synthesizers, flute whistles,
guitars and vocals, all this shrouded into a magic mantle, a
mystic adventure throughout nine suggestive themes evoking a world
of fantasy that in a way reflect a slight influence of such
composers as Oldfield, Kitaro, Cusco or Vangelis, among others.
The CD is accompanied by an eight-page booklet with lyrics
inspired by fantastic tales and beautiful, dream-like images and
photographs, all this conforming a whole that appeals to our
imagination. The music turns out to be dreamy, relaxing, even
oniric, at times soft, at times lively and blissful, with some
melancholy touches, with warm textures and soft colors, always
bringing to the mind of the listener the vision of magic unicorns,
leprechauns and elves, the little or the great marvels of Nature
such as the peace of green grasslands, the wonders of a quiet dawn
or dusk, the sound of the sea and seagulls in a mysterious island,
the changing shadows of a tree or a little spider weaving its web.
The ethereal vocals provided by Andrea Köhler, or Micho Russsell
complementing some of the tracks make of this album a joyful,
peaceful experience, a tranquil musical journey, a flight of
imagination to the realms of Fantasy, which will no doubt please a
wide audience.
MONTSE ANDREU

RASA:
"DEVOTION"
Hearts of Space
The members of this duo, singer Kim Waters and multi-
instumentalist Hans Christian, draw their inspiration from the
ancient Vedic culture of India to gather eight sacred Sanskrit
chants and devotional Bengali songs, mostly written by Srila
Bhaktivinoda Thakura, where modern and ethnic, traditional
elements are masterfully combined, transmitting to the listener an
atmosphere of mystic spiruality that transcends all cultures. The
contemporary musical arrangements by Hans and Kim bring the
Western audience to a dimension full of peace, with the airs of a
New Age in a chaotic world, in search of the essence of Divine
Love.
WINONA SIRTIS

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link:

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SHAFQAT ALI KHAN:
"SHAFQAT ALI KHAN"
World Class
Shafqat Ali Khan is a virtuoso vocalist whose debut album for
Hearts of Space/World Class Records reflects his skills, inherited
from an ancient musical lineage back to the sixteenth century.
Trained as a classical singer in the purest forms of the vocal
arts from his homeland, the Punjab (India), in this CD the artist
presents with unparalelled mastery a repertoire of traditional
poetic love songs, originated in the 19th. century, knows as
ghazals, together with raga-based melodies, in a wonderful mix of
percussion, synths and electro-acoustic guitars, thus entering
what can be considered the World Music of the 21st. century.
WINONA SIRTIS

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JEAN-FRANÇOIS LAPORTE:
"MANTRA"
Metamkine
A single 22-minute composition constitutes this mini-CD, one of
the new releases in the collection of Concrete Music "Cinema pour
l'oreille" of the association Metamkine. The structure of the work
is based on a dense electronic texture, metallic, roaring, static,
yet in a permanent evolution, with shades of sound that change
subtly second by second. Listening to this CD suggests at once the
profound depths of the universe and the powerful presence of
massive bodies as catalysts of colossal forces, gravitating,
threateningly, in the immensity of the cosmos.
DOMINIQUE CHEVANT

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THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC IN EASTERN EUROPE: Chapter 5: CZEH REPUBLIC /
SLOVAKIAN REPUBLIC (FORMERLY CZECHOSLOVAKIA)

REVIEWS:
JORGE RIESCO: "ISMAEL FLORITO" Fussion Discos
RUDY ADRIAN: "KINETIC FLOW" Groove
STEVE LA CERRA: "FLIGHT" North America Music
BARBARA MARKAY: "HEART LIKE A SONG" My Thing Music

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Klaus Schulze: "Angst/Mirage"

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David Lanz: "An Evening With David Lanz"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000I0R2/thesciencebookbo

Scott Wilkie: "More Than You Know"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004SQXZ/thesciencebookbo

Scott Wilkie: "Boundless"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000I0R3/thesciencebookbo

Don Ross: "Passion Session"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000I8V3/thesciencebookbo

Various Artists: "Japan The Spirit Of Water"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000I0GA/thesciencebookbo

The Danubians: "The Danubians"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004WF2K/thesciencebookbo

Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic: "Petrophonics"

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Djam Karet: "Reflections From The Firepool"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004WF2J/thesciencebookbo

Robin Spielberg: "Dreaming of Summer"

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THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC IN EASTERN EUROPE
Chapter 5

It is impossible to attempt to compress the musical universe
enclosed behind the iron curtain by decades in a single mini-
series. A basic approach to the reality of the musical avantgarde
in each one of the multiple, rich cultures of this great unknown
which is Eastern Europe, nowadays in full development, would need
the making of a book. Therefore, this mini-series will only be a
brief vision, perforce incomplete, of this avantgarde style
sustained on cultures maybe as ancient or even more so than those
in the rest of Europe.

CZEH REPUBLIC / SLOVAKIAN REPUBLIC (FORMERLY CZECHOSLOVAKIA)
	 The first name that easily comes to mind is that of the well
known musician Jan Hammer, who nevertheless had to develop his
career in the United States, and who is above all known thanks to
his Pop side.
	 With the political changes that ended up with the division of
Czechoslovakia into the Czeh and the Slovakian Republics, a very
important culture of new musics emerged. Although before that
happened, something was known about it, basically through the
Festival of New Music in Prague, and the scene of progressive Rock
that transcended abroad, the great variety and wealth of their new
musics has surprised the Western countries quite a lot. Some of
these artists enjoy international recognition.
	 Coming from the scholarly spheres, Rudolf Ruzicka, is a
composer who has combined the teaching of music with composition.
He is one of the many electronic pioneers unknown in the Western
countries. Already in 1965, he made music using a computer. He has
written numerous pieces for orchestra and synthesizers, and was
awarded several international prizes in 1970 and 1984. He has
published a book on the use of computers in artistic tasks. He
told me that at the time of its publication it was the only
existing book written in the Czeh language describing computer
composition in full detail.
	 Synthesist Otakar Olsanik could be considered as a completely
different case from Rudolf Ruzicka, as he comes from Rock, is
self-taught, and nevertheless he enjoys the same prestige as an
artist and pioneer. Furthermore, his life has been quite exciting
indeed. Meaningfully enough, he told me that he had no idea where
to start narrating me his life experiences. His education in
electronics served him to become one of the members of the first
Czeh band that used electric guitars (Electrofonic), which he
recorded several albums with, besides engaging in a variety of
tours in Czechoslovakia. Later, he left for the Scandinavian
countries as a guitarist for a Rock band, and he began his solo
career after building a studio with Norwegian technology. He
achieved a great success, as his music could be heard on an almost
daily basis. Nowadays he spends five months a year in Norway,
works with computers and samplers, and makes movie soundtracks,
even though from time to time he also composes a Pop song for his
wife Kamila, who is a singer. He has participated in the Austrian
festival of computer music and the interactive arts, Ars
Electronica. It was there where I knew about him for the first
time.
	 Born in 1955, Jan Jirasek studied piano and composition. Later
he also studied electroacoustic music, under Rudolf Ruzicka. He
explained me that after graduating, he suffered from a sort of
boycott on the part of the government, due to his political
opinions. As a consequence of this fact, the artistic recognition
of his music had to come to him exclusively from abroad, until he
could succeed in being taken out of this black list. His
activities range from the composition of movie soundtracks to the
research of new forms of music. The Institute of Technoculture in
Paris has released some of his studios. The Radio of Munich has
played concerts of music written by him. Since 1990 he has been
the director of the Experimental Studio of the Czeh-Slovakian
Radio, in Prague.
	 Elia Cmiral studied music at the Conservatory of Prague, and
settled in Sweden in 1979, where he studied electroacoustic music,
while at the same time he composed music for the Drama Theatre in
Stockholm. Later he made ballet music in Germany, the United
States and Sweden, as well as his first movie soundtracks,
advertising  spots and documentaries. One of them was nominated at
the Festival of Cannes in 1988, and another one received Second
Prize at the Festival of Rotterdam in 1991.
	 Daniel Forro is a wonderful musician and composer, who studied
piano, flute, organ, and composition. Already in the 1980s, still
in the Communist Era, worked with a similar equipment to that of
any Western professional composer, and made music for ballet,
cinema, television, and advertising. His volume of work was
considerable. However, the area he was most interested in was that
of electronic music and the new musics in general. He had beeen
producing his works independently from the official institutions
in his country, which prevented him from distributing them in an
adequate manner. He was one of the very scarce independent Czeh
artists who worked as a professional before the Perestroyka. In
his compositions he already intended to embrace the most disparate
elements of European World Music, from Gregorian chants to the
most complex techniques of composition in the 20th. century, the
world folklore and some touches of Jazz and Rock. In my last
contact with him, this talented artist was finishing a book on
musical technology.
	 Jiri Stivin is a flutist and saxophonist who has worked with
artists from many countries and who used to lead his own band.
	 Guitarist Lubos Andrst has been involved with several
progressive rock bands. Martin Kratochvil was a pioneer of
electronic Jazz. Likewise, mention must be made of keyboardist
Emil Viklicky, guitarist Michal Pavlicek, the bands Progress-2,
Olympic and Bohemia, that used to make avantgarde music disliked
by the authorities, and the musicians Jiri Strohner, Jiri Hradec,
Pavel Kopecky and Michal Kocab.

(By: J. Munnshe)

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REVIEWS:

JORGE RIESCO:
"ISMAEL FLORITO"
Fussion Discos
This album, with music by Jorge Riesco and texts by Ismael
Florito, is no doubt an act of creativity of an incredible
quality. With a first hearing the listener already perceives the
effort and the intentionality there are behind this project. In
successive hearings, the range of this CD appears in all its
greatness. Recited or sung poetry is fused in an almost magical
manner with musical poetry, thus creating a collection of
situations of real life transmuted, by means of the alchemy of
art, into wondrous surrealist landscapes of intense colors. The
electronic music by Riesco is the perfect basis on which these
situations can be painted. The vocals, female as well as male,
either reciting or singing, are ideal brushes to reflect the
emotional intensity of the texts by Florito. Riesco is the
performer of the music, and is accompanied, singing or reciting,
by: Manolo Botana, Mária Rial, Raúl Francés, Marta Quintana,
Fernando Valeiras and Carmen Quintana.
JORGE MUNNSHE

RUDY ADRIAN:
"KINETIC FLOW"
Groove
In this album the listener will find seven themes, six of which
are different pieces or sequencer sketches. The fifth theme of the
CD, however, constitutes the soundtrack created by the author for
the Planetarium at the Otago Museum, which develops thirteen
intense minutes of ethereal music, whose cosmic textures take the
listener to a brief yet intense space voyage throughout the Solar
system, evoking starscapes of a mysterious beauty.
EMMA DORS

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STEVE LA CERRA:
"FLIGHT"
North America Music
This is the second album by Steve La Cerra in the field of the New
Age/Space Music. The artist explores in a greater depth the world
of music without fixed boundaries, a path he had started to tread
with his first album in the New Age genre, "One Step At A Time".
The music, at times with a very marked rhythm and certain touches
of pop, at other times becomes relaxing, meditative, dreamy, even
cosmic. Steve also shows his expertise as an engineer and
producer, and has collaborated with other well-known artists, such
as Alan Parsons or Phil Ramone, to mention but a few. His music
has been labelled as "New Age with an Attitude", as with it the
artist expresses his ideas with conviction and strength, traits
these which give his music a peculiar air, where poetic harmonies
are intertwined with elaborate soundscapes with a remarkable
visual effect, together with a powerful musical technique. The
result is a  colourful tapestry of soundscapes that will no doubt
appeal to the lovers of this musical genre, while at the same time
aiming at a wider audience.
MONTSE ANDREU

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BARBARA MARKAY:
"HEART LIKE A SONG"
My Thing Music
Singer and song-writer Barbara Markay presents here her new album,
an album where the audience can find ten themes as a homage to
Sathya Sai Baba, whose evocative Latin rhythms are blended with
jazz and pop traits, thus creating an inspired harmony between the
earthly and the spiritual worlds. Through her lyrics and her warm
vocals, the artist leads us to an inner universe of poetry, love
and lively rhythms, ethereal atmospheres and relaxing peace. This
is indeed an interesting album for those listeners who like this
kind of music.
SIMONETTA VALLI

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NEWS

THE REVOLUTION OF ELECTRONICS WITHIN MUSIC.Chapter 6: The 1980s:
THE CONSOLIDATION OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC (Part 2). As we promised,
the series The Revolution Of Electronics Within Music will
periodically visit us so as to unwind a true history of electronic
music.

REVIEWS:
JEFF PEARCE: "TO THE SHORES OF HEAVEN" Hypnos
MASALA: "LUCID DREAMS" Materiali Sonori
PERCY HOWARD: "INCIDENTAL SEDUCTIONS" Materiali Sonori
BRIAN WAYY: "XCULTURES" Intentcity
DAVID & STEVE GORDON: "DRUM MEDICINE" Sequoia Records / Earth
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Steven Halpern: "Serenity Suite"

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Steven Halpern, Starr Fuentes: "Divine Intervention"

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Steven Halpern: "Music For Accelerated Learning"

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Vas: "In The Garden Of Souls"

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THE REVOLUTION OF ELECTRONICS WITHIN MUSIC
Chapter 6:
The 1980s: THE CONSOLIDATION OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC (Part 2)
By JORGE MUNNSHE

	 Many are the electronic musicians cropping up in the eighties,
too many for me to dare claim that the selection of names that I
am including next is representative enough.
	 CONSTANCE DEMBY started her musical activity in the sixties.
She was a member of the band CENTRAL MAINE POWER AND LIGHT
COMPANY. In the seventies she began her solo career as a composer
of innovative music. Her first album, SKIES ABOVE SKIES, was
released in 1978. In the mid eighties she became internationally
known.
	 Greek musician YANNI settled in California at age eighteen.
After being a member of a progressive rock band, he started his
solo career with the album OPTIMYSTIQUE in 1980. He reached
international success in the mid eighties with the release of his
second album and the re-release of his first one.
	 North American composer SUZANNE CIANI was a pioneer of
electronic music in the early seventies. For several years, she
devoted herself to exploring the possibilities provided by the new
technologies, and she made music for numerous television
advertisements as well as for other productions. In 1979 SEVEN
WAVES was released, the first independent album in her stage as a
solo artist. In the mid eighties, she reached international
success with her albums. Since the late eighties, she has chosen
to approach acoustic instruments rather than the electronic ones,
and has proved she is a highly talented pianist.
	 STEVE ROACH was born in the United States in 1955. He founded
the synthesist band MOEBIUS at the beginning of his career, and,
in 1978, he began to give numerous solo synthesizer concerts. His
first solo album was released in 1982. He has also collaborated
with other electronic artists.
	 ROBERT RICH started to build his own synthesizers and
experiment with them in 1976 at age thirteen. His interest in the
states of trance and lucid dreams led him to study Psychology at
the University of Stanford. His nocturnal "Sleep Concerts", first
performed in 1982 for a sleeping audience at a dorm in Stanford,
and his "Trance Concerts" to be listened to before going to sleep,
have become legendary in the area of San Francisco, United States.
Rich has also worked at the CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in
Music and Acoustics), where he started to experiment with a system
of tuning based on the natural harmonic series. He has published
numerous articles on electronic music and alternative tonal
scales.
	 From an early age trained as a self-taught pianist, American
composer TIM STORY began to play with synthesizers in the mid
seventies. In the early eighties, his first albums were released
by a small Norwegian label. The re-release of one of these albums
by Windham Hill in 1989 launched him into word stardom. Since
then, and having released as well in Hearts of Space and Eurock,
his popularity has not ceased to grow.
	 DAVID SUN has been composing and playing his own music since
the early eighties. He has released albums that have been well
accepted at an international level. He also is a pioneer in the
composition of music for relaxation.
	 SERGE BLENNER was born in France in 1955, began to compose
electronic music in the mid seventies, and started his album
career in 1979. He lives and works in Germany since several years
ago.
	 HIMEKAMI is basically Yoshiaki Hoshi, a Japanese composer born
in 1946, who is accompanied by other musicians. In 1971, Hoshi was
awarded First Prize of a national Japanese contest of performers
of electronic organ. His activity as a performer gave way to his
task as a composer later on. His first album was released in 1981.
He has also composed some soundtracks. In 1993, he was the musical
director of the opening ceremony of the World Championship of
Alpine Sports, held in Japan.
	 Born in 1963 in Germany, MATHIAS GRASSOW started his musical
career in the early eighties. Although at the beginning it wasn't
easy for him, as time went by he has succeeded in reaching an
important post within the avantgarde electronic music.
	 STEVE HILLMAN is a British synthesist whose first works were
released in the early eighties. He has given successful concerts
in Great Britain. In his albums, his wife Linda has often
collaborated with him.
	 RICHARD BURMER released his first album as a composer of
electronic music in 1984. During the second half of the eighties
he reached international success, despite the fact that he has not
been very prolific.
	 British composer RON BERRY started as a guitarist of Rock in
the sixties. In the early seventies, his interest changed towards
the exploration of new sound paths. In 1974 he built his first
synthesizer himself and started to experiment with it. His skills
as an electronic engineer allowed him to get enough command of
musical technology as to be able to exploit the possibilities
offered by synthesizers, getting such posts as for instance one as
a technician at the musical department at the University of
Durham. In 1982, his first solo work was released, followed by
others since then. Berry combines the recording of his albums with
the composition of video soundtracks.
	 KEVIN BRAHENY has a solid trajectory in the field of musical
technology, having collaborated with several scientists, among
them SERGE TCHEREPNIN, in the designing of analogic synthesizers.
This, together with his experience as a performer of wind
instruments, was the basis for him to become one of the first
musicians to widely use wind controlled synthesizers (that is to
say, synthesizers played like a wind instrument). His debut as a
composer in 1980, with the release of his album "LULLABY FOR THE
HEARTS OF SPACE", marked the beginnings of an interesting career.
	 French synthesist JOEL FAJERMAN, born in 1948, started
his career as a Rock performer. In 1973 he specialized in
synthesizers. In the late seventies he started to compose
music for television advertisements, television series and
radio and TV programmes. Fame reached him in the early
eighties thanks to his wonderful soundtrack for the
documentary series L'AVENTURE DES PLANTES, devoted to the
life of the plants.
	 Canadian composer PASCAL LANGUIRAND started his album
career as a synthesist in 1978, yet it was in the mid
eighties when he reached international recognition with the
great success of his LIVING ON VIDEO in TRANS-X.
	 American composer LARAAJI became famous in the eighties,
after cultivating an aureola of enigmatic musician because of
his mystic personality as well as his spontaneous
performances in parks and squares in New York.
	 With the release of his first work in 1983, RAY LYNCH
was revealed as a synthesist who had the sensitivity typical
of a composer of Classical Music, and his success increased
with his next albums.
	 JONN SERRIE started his album career in 1987, and at
once he harvested a great world success both from critics and
the audience. To this no doubt contributed his talent,
already proved since several years before with his activity
composing music for planetariums.
	 The case of RUDIGER LORENZ was not very usual. A Rocker during
over 20 years (the seventies, the sixties and part of the
fifties), in the eighties he turned to electronic music, while at
the same time he started a prolific solo career, which made him
much more famous than his life devoted to Beat and Rock. His
compositions, which have been well accepted, are centered on a
very sophisticated Techno with some classicist passages and a few
drops of Rock. His son TIM, a guitarist, sometimes collaborated
with him.
	 PETER SCHAEFER was a revelation artist in the eighties. A
clear member of the Computer Generation, he learned to program
from a very early age.  This, together with his prolific,
imaginative creativity, as well as his full command of keyboards,
placed him as one of the most noteworthy new German synthesists.
His albums are full of daring ideas.
	 MARTIN KORNBERGER and VOLKER KUHN formed a duo that in the mid
eighties passed from being virtually unknown to having fans in
several countries. The music they made then has an innovative
musical structure where rhythm also has melodic functions, and
they advanced themselves to the ideas that were to dominate the
electronic Pop of the nineties. KORNBERGER, who in 1981 obtained a
remarkable post at the Festival of Electronic Music organized by
the firm Roland, acted as the brains of the duo, whereas KUHN
played the role of virtuoso of the electric guitar.
	 The phenomenon BERND SCHOLL attracts a lot of attention. A
former Rocker in his teenage years, he turned to synthesizers in
1980 to make a kind of music that turned him into one of the
visible heads of "ecologist" electronic music. A supporter of
GREEN PEACE and of having technology preserve nature instead of
destroying it, SCHOLL became famous in Germany, and also reached a
relevant post within the international scene. To his albums we
must add his magnificient concerts, which have also contributed to
his popularity.
	 The son of a jazz trumpet player, JESSE CLARK was a revelation
artist in the eighties. This American synthesist fusions Pop
influences with the most classical trends of electronic music as
well as melodic orchestral forms on the same line as such
composers as JOHN WILLIAMS. The result is a kind of music that may
be normal in the future, perhaps, as a result of
the growing universal unification of styles registered im the
world musical scene. CLARK has kept himself somewhat apart from
the conventional distribution circuits, which is why his music is
not very well known.
	 BERND KISTENMACHER represented the most conservative wing of
the analog sound in Germany during the eighties. His music, which
in the nineties has evolved towards the acquisition of techno
elements although maintaining the original spirit, is nourished by
the electronic environment of the seventies. KISTENMACHER has
always considered the new trends of electronic music nearest to
Pop that appeared in the eighties as not very creative ones. In
his works of the eighties we find this taste for cold, efficient
high tech, as well as this mysterious solemnity that characterized
the best musical moments of the great electronic geniuses of the
seventies, all this supported by the greatest power of the musical
technology of the eighties and the nineties.
	 ASHOK PREMA is an Hindi musician settled in the United Kingdom
who became known in the eighties as a refreshing unifier among the
musical forms from India and the modern Western Pop, within the
framework of electronic music, following the already mentioned
collective trend of unifying styles so as to give way to a greater
musical wealth and originality. Defined as the Eastern KLAUS
SCHULZE, and quite influenced by TANGERINE DREAM as well, his
career has not meant for him the ascent to stardom, yet he has
achieved a solid acceptance on the part of the most expert fans of
electronic music.
	 SOFTWARE, a duo founded by Peter Mergener and Michael
Weisser, reached high peaks of admiration among the fans of
cosmic electronic music in the eighties, becoming a synonym
for great talent and avantgarde ideas. Also influenced by
KLAUS SCHULZE in the beginning, the members of Software did
not take long to cultivate their own style, whose original
concept was, according to them, to explore the future through
music.
	 MARK SHREEVE gave an impressive turn to Techno and Electronic
Pop in the eighties, achieving compositions of an overwhelming
rhythm. No wonder he composed a theme from his album LEGION with
CHRISTOPHER FRANKE, the master of the sequencer who contributed in
a decisive manner to the triumph of TANGERINE DREAM. The music by
SHREEVE is highly sophisticated, leaving far behind the Techno
wave typical of the eighties, while in the nineties, when the
collective scene has ended up by approaching the structures of the
musician in the previous decade, his music has become even more
daring indeed. In Great Britain, he has been defined as the
British JEAN MICHEL JARRE.
	 British composer IAN BODDY was one of the leaders of the
musical electronic avantgarde in Great Britain during the
eighties. Having released several albums, he enjoys a well
deserved popularity among the most experienced fans, which was
most remarkable in his great success within the festival U.K
ELECTRONICA, as well as in many other live performances, and in
the increasingly greater popularity his works have outside his
country.

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and sound clips, use these links:

CONSTANCE DEMBY

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/49136/thesciencebookbo

YANNI

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/33680/thesciencebookbo

SUZANNE CIANI

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/33684/thesciencebookbo

STEVE ROACH

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/37247/thesciencebookbo

ROBERT RICH

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/49142/thesciencebookbo

TIM STORY

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/49148/thesciencebookbo

DAVID SUN

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/33587/thesciencebookbo

SERGE BLENNER

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000JJ22/thesciencebookbo

HIMEKAMI

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/94102/thesciencebookbo

MATHIAS GRASSOW

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/125495/thesciencebookbo

STEVE HILLMAN

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/59999/thesciencebookbo

RICHARD BURMER

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/37248/thesciencebookbo

KEVIN BRAHENY

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/49134/thesciencebookbo

PASCAL LANGUIRAND (TRANS-X)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/155327/thesciencebookbo

LARAAJI

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/61756/thesciencebookbo

RAY LYNCH

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/44563/thesciencebookbo

JONN SERRIE

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/85242/thesciencebookbo

BERND SCHOLL

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/175505/thesciencebookbo

BERND KISTENMACHER

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/209406/thesciencebookbo

PETER MERGENER

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/artist-search/Peter%20Mergener/thesciencebookbo

SOFTWARE

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00002696I/thesciencebookbo

IAN BODDY

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REVIEWS:

JEFF PEARCE:
"TO THE SHORES OF HEAVEN"
Hypnos
In these 11 themes of Ambient and Atmospheric Music, the artist
takes the audience through a musical voyage along the heavenly
shores, as indicated by the title of the CD. By using
electronically processed guitar sounds, the music flows softly
onwards, floating towards otherwordly soundscapes, at times with
melancholy touches, at times optimistic, always delicately
expressive, communicating a wide range of feelings and emotions,
with ethereal sounds, cosmic textures and a careful musical
sensitivity that make of this album an ideal vehicle for
relaxation and meditation. No doubt this CD will appeal to the
fans of Jeff Pearce's music as well as the lovers of Ambient and
Atmospheric Music.in general. Jeff Pearce shows once again his
expertise as a musician, continuing with the work he initiated in
his previous albums, among which we find "Tenderness and
Fatality", "the Hidden Rift", "True Stories" ( a collaboration
with Vidna Obmana), "Vestiges", and "Daylight Slowly".
ARIELLE MALREAUX

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MASALA:
"LUCID DREAMS"
Materiali Sonori
This album is a fresh combination of influences coming from
Atmospheric Pop, World Music and Ambient. Elements from all these
trends converge into a waterfall of creative vitality. Driven by
their creative impulse, the musicians of Masala have taken the
themes of lucid dreams as a point of reference for the music they
have created. Thus we find that all the pieces are like imaginary
voyages towards fascinating places and ages.
MARCELLA CIRIGNOLA

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PERCY HOWARD:
"INCIDENTAL SEDUCTIONS"
Materiali Sonori
This is an album whose 11 themes consist of original songs between
pop and jazz. The songs, with a lyric, traditional make-up, at
times present a certain darkish ambience, with contrapuntal
rhythms and harmonies typical of jazz. The lyrics reflect on the
nature of love, passion, lust with satanic touches, seduction, and
even heavenly love. The voice of the artist shapes a solid
tapestry with the instruments accompanying him, and he expresses
his most personal ideas with great conviction. This is no doubt a
CD that presents the evolution in the musical career of Percy
Howard as a singer and songwriter that will certainly appeal to
the fans of this accomplished artist.
SIMONETTA VALLI

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BRIAN WAYY:
"XCULTURES"
Intentcity
In this album Wayy presents a wide range of sounds from all over
the world, where pop traits are intertwined with World Music
melodies in a very successful way. The CD includes thirteen themes
of an eclectic origin, where vocals, ancient and modern
instruments, a careful rhythmic, lively, at times melancholy,
structure, appears together with Chinese or Japanese folk
textures, which give way to traditional Senegalese airs, samples
of Morocchian chants, Sudanese melodies, African music, Indian
melodies, Spanish touches, Russian traits, Pygmy shades, as well
as English lyrics, in a wide variety of ethnic airs from all over
the world, in a successful fusion that includes a careful
instrumentation and modern rhythms, aimed at a wide audience. Wayy
created this CD so as to devote a third of the artist royalties to
alleviating the hunger and poverty of the children throughout the
world .
EMMA DORS

DAVID & STEVE GORDON:
"DRUM MEDICINE"
Sequoia Records / Earth Vision Music / BSC Music / Prudence
By combining the New Instrumental Music with the essence of the
Folklore of the Native Americans, David and Steve Gordon have
created a series of themes based on percussive rhythms with tribal
traits, ethereal environments sustained by synthesizers, and
melodies that combine a classical romanticism with the mysticism
of Indian traditions. All this, together with subtle touches of
Jazz and Pop, besides some almost subliminal brush-strokes of
Ambient.
MARCELLA CIRIGNOLA

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