The opening track on the album UNOMIA (57'00") by Helios (aka Keith Kennif) does something other pieces of modern electronic music can only aspire to do... It...
Lanterna's music wanders the front line of a style known as Ambient Americana. As Lanterna, Henry Frayne connects his achievements in post-punk and shoegazer...
The meeting between New Age music and digital sampling technology begot a pile of releases whose main feature was snippets of whale songs arbitrarily mixed...
On THE GATE by Terra Ambient, electronic musician Jeff Kowal leaves the ranks of his synthesizer absorbed brethren to relate his personal musical story through...
Energized by the classic cosmic music of the 1970s, synthesists in the USA have been making significant world-class contributions to the community for many...
Over the years, STAR'S END has hosted numerous on-air in-studio radio concerts. These live performances were often, for the artists, a culmination of many...
On INDALO (70'50"), Max Corbacho and Bruno Sanfilippo collaborate to produce a musical crosscurrent of directions and influences. This work tells of a shared...
For composers exploring indeterminacy in music, the compositional process is no doubt fascinating, but often rough going for the audience. The intellectual...
Every electronic musician is eventually advised, by helpful neighbors or well-meaning relatives, to look into doing soundtrack work. Along with being the most...
ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS by John Adams commemorates those who lost their lives on the 11 September 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. It also mourns...
Public Radio is driven by the concept of content diversity and community enrichment; ideals not well served by the commercial sector. By concentrating on...
Science remains in the dark as to the matters that make life most worth living. It has been left to music and art to express human ideas about joy, happiness...
SANCTUARY OF DREAMS (73'14") by Numina (a.k.a. Jesse Sola) comes from the same spark as many other soundworld realizations in the field of Spacemusic. Through...
Luca Formentini seems to be investigating sound for the sheer satisfaction of discovery. Described by the author as "a life from the inside", SUBTERRANEANS is...
TONE-CONE (65'39") by Mind Transport Tools (a.k.a. Cameron Akhunaton) harkens back to the early days of electronic spacemusic, a time before the inclusion of...
Murcof (a.k.a. Fernando Corona) has had a reaction to the shallow gloss of techno music. It is the album UTOPIA (75'41"). Murcof may be from the world of...
TWILIGHT IN THE OFFING (60'27"), the debut album by Chad Hoefler, deals with our inescapable encounter with Truth. The 7 tracks exist as leviathans within this...
Avid STAR'S END listeners, Scott Watkins and Terry Furber of Orbital Decay have been influenced profoundly by Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Pink Floyd and...
With the opening track on THE DEAD TEXAN (46'37"), the self titled album by Adam Wiltzie, we find a piano dreaming, slowly breathing music in and out,...
Blow Up Hollywood sidesteps the ordinary with a range of original, moody, dreamy pop songs. Their music is textured, with strings and samples throughout and is...
Powered by their passion for sound, noted touch guitarist and looper Markus Reuter along with storied electronic musician Ian Boddy, craft disparate influences...
Centrozoon works with free-improvisational, free-tonal, microtonal soundscapes. Within the rich and dense layers there are subtle rhythmic and tonal shifts...
On WICHMAN AND OTHER PIECES (68'34") Spielerei (Dennis Knoepper) & Mantacoup (Jeroen Vermeent) bring together divergent traditions. The duo views electronic...
It's not until after a few encounters with GREY MIRRORS (42'24") by The Glimmer Room (a.k.a. Andy Condon), that it becomes possible to grasp this album's...
It's hard to imagine that anyone acquiring a copy of .74 (51'18") by Maitreya (a.k.a. Simon Lomax), would use this disc of Ambient Music as a musical...
The music of David Parsons is best experienced with eyes closed. In this manner, the transportive qualities of his work can be fully felt. His album VAJRA...
On his album FIRE & REMEMBRANCE (47'12"), Philippe Emmanuel Gueble compiles nine distinctive, almost disparate, tracks. Each piece explores a separate aspect...
Dino Pacifici has given his album, THE FLOAT ZONE (57'55"), the perfect name. What with it's drifting nature and recumbent posture, it is unlikely that anyone...
FOUR (54'46") is the 2nd solo album by electronic musician Dwight Ashley. Featuring 11 hymns to the worldly religion of the mind, Ashley's frostbound...
Maybe it was her tenure as a singer songwriter that provided Janet Robbins with the ability to express complex emotional themes in the few succinct musical...