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...
Max Richter is composing music that has extended beyond the category of Classical. On THE BLUE NOTEBOOKS (40'36"), a pianist as well as an ensemble of stringed...
On BORDERS AND BARRENS (56'17"), Lammergeyer is working without much in the way of rhythm. This work often contains a pulse, but no apparent beat to carry it...
302 acid combine elements of computer technology with live instrumentation. Improvisation plays an integral role in the way they approach both composition and...
Public radio presents music and programming based upon artistic content and the material's ability to enhance the lives of the listeners. The only way to fund...
More than sonic wallpaper, VOLLEYED IRON (57'24") by Kettel is a kind of ambient symphony, in which disparate elements are combined into a composite...
The musical work of Dean DeBenedictis is one of continued engagement. With clear phrasing, pacing and feeling his realizations are infused with both thought...
Gert Emmens + Ruud Heij create evocative soundtracks, not for the cinema, but for the images appearing in the back of the listener's mind. Their imaginative...
When Jeff Pearce picked up the Chapman Stick, he wanted his new instrument to lead to new music. The album LINGERING LIGHT (44'25") came out of this...
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