On his album FIRE & REMEMBRANCE (47'12"), Philippe
Emmanuel Gueble compiles nine distinctive, almost disparate,
tracks. Each piece explores a separate aspect of individuality.
The mood on this collection moves capriciously from themes of
the ceremonial and the cerebral, to that of concealment and
knowing, to spirit and hope. There's a fair amount of air and light
on this album, unpredictably offset by areas of darkly inhibited
aural inventions. It's this diversity that makes this album of
selective sonic recollections difficult to categorize - and
endlessly fascinating. Equally represented are the genres of
Ambient, Avant-Garde, New Age, Experimental, but not enough of
any one to give it a true place to belong. A constant running
through FIRE & REMEMBRANCE would be the wonderful
synthesizer tones. At times therapeutic, elsewhere
disconcerting, the electronic textures and accents are
personalized for the content of each track. While brittle
harmonious pads brighten several of the tracks, drones and
sweeping modulations elsewhere dull. Gueble also uses a
range of guitars, from moaning e-bowed electric to softly
strummed acoustic, and on to gliding Hawaiian steel... and vocal
stylings, from quietly whispered secrets to hummed ethereal
emanations. This album achieves a wonderful diversity without
being self-conscious. It never disconnects from the meditative
effect. How so? Whatever the explanation, it hovers outside our
grasp. Maybe Gueble's approach was to begin completely anew
with each nascent work. Probably, what with the power contained
within each of his brief musical realizations, each subsequent
creation must've brought him back to the vast emptiness of the
beginning... the point where the artist explores his relationship
with the world.

Tune in to STAR'S END this weekend for music from FIRE &
REMEMBRANCE by Philippe Emmanuel Gueble

For more on FIRE & REMEMBRANCE, access:
http://www.underwatermusic.of.pl

For more on Philippe Emmanuel Gueble, access:
http://www.pegueble.com

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2004 - STAR'S END Year in Review

This weekend's broadcast of STAR'S END will present Part Two
of the annual Year in Review broadcast. Tune in for tracks from
the significant releases of 2004 and a look back at the year in
Ambient and Spacemusic

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from 1am-6am (EDST) on:

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Chuck van Zyl
Host of STAR'S END Ambient Radio
http://www.starsend.org