The purpose of non-commercial radio is to present music and programming that is worthwhile based, not on marketability or popularity, but on artistic content...
Titled "In the Regions of Sunreturn", Michael Garrison's first album paved the way for future generations of electronic musicians. Musically, it was among the...
Sonogram (Todd Gautreau) should be commended for realizing music that lasts only as long as its founding idea. Each of the 21 tracks on SUBSTRATES (66'55") are...
Independent-minded music is usually realized as a reaction to something. For Arnold Schoenberg it was World War I, for Roger Waters it was the death of his...
The album CROSSWORDS (58'05") by Dom F. Scab is for anyone interested in instrumental music that is more focused than all-out smooth spacemusic yet a bit more...
The discovery of a correlation between sound and space and the order of the cosmos has lead to endeavors in defining the universe through music. HARMONY OF THE...
Although ON WATER (59'15") by Ben Cox is an album of deep Ambient soundscapes, the 7 tracks are by no means indistinct. Each piece drifts aimlessly into the...
Electronic Music realized in a live performance often possesses a quality unattainable in studio works. In the practiced spontaneity of live improvisation,...
The purpose of any decent anthology album is to present a variety of works by a diversity of artists. Through the ordering and selections of tracks, ...
For David Parsons, it's always been the delicate control and subtle organization of elements that has made his music a success. On the album INNER PLACES ...
The music of Tim Story comes off sounding perfect and effortless. Throughout his career, Story's compositions have remained open and elegant, aspiring to touch...
On his album MEDITATIONEN (71'03"), Spyra embraces the essential concepts of Spacemusic to create lengthy realizations which possess a transportative quality....
On AVALON SUTRA (46'03"), Harold Budd creates a contemporary chamber music that may be too warm and pleasant for the serious academic yet too complex and...
On ARCTURUS (61'05"), the live album from Arc, the duo of Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve sounds a bit more like Shreeve's side project Redshift in that the pieces...
Hooked on the wonders of the cosmos as a youngster, who saw Sputnik tracking across the night sky, Jonn Serrie has become one of the foremost composers of...
Dedicated fans of Fripp & Eno will no doubt be looking for similarities between the duo's two previous (and profoundly influential) releases No Pussyfooting...
Each of the two CDs in the double disc set EMISSARIES by Radio Massacre Int'l, presents a distinctive facet of this interesting trio of English Spacemusicians....
The purpose of non-commercial radio is to present music and programming that is worthwhile, based not on marketability or popularity, but on artistic content...
Robert Rich advises those listening to ECHO OF SMALL THINGS (61'14") that, "meaning waits at the periphery." Yet Rich, an endlessly versatile musician, has...
There are certain signature sounds that give away a musical composition as one by Patrick O'Hearn. The wooden wavering sound of his sparse piano playing, the...
This weekend's broadcast of STAR'S END will include music by many of the show's most distinguished artists. Tune in for tracks from classic albums by such...
Mankind first created music using the voice. As this sound filled the air, a listening space was formed around the singer. On HARMONIC MEDITATIONS (71'33"),...
On his album GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM (62'03"), Off the Sky (aka Jason Corder) re-envisions Ambient Music into something more lineal. The focus is tighter, more...
When an album of Ambient Music opens with the reverberant sound of someone yanking the cork out of a wine bottle, one knows that one is in for something...
The album HOTEL by Moby is available as a single CD as well as (at about the same price) a limited edition double CD; with the included "bonus" CD being called...
Ken Martin works in a field of musicians who will not allow the ghosts of 1970's era spacemusic to rest in peace. His albums of drifting cosmic music...
In the opening moments of their self-titled debut CD, BYLA (48'39") deliberately shift mood a few times. This tactic has an unsettling effect on the listener....
BETWEEN HERE & THERE (67'10") by Brian Parnham opens with reassuring warm and bright harmonic motion. As layer upon layer of silvery synthesizer chords rise...
Paul Ellis understands that his purpose as an artist is to envision and communicate. His album SILENT CONVERSATIONS (76'30"), likes its author, is a...
On AT THE STILL POINT OF THE TURNING WORLD (69'05"), Robert Scott Thompson presents an alternative vision of Ambient Music. This album is weirdly unsettling...
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