SOUNDS FROM A UNIVERSE OVERHEARD (70'10") complies works by a cross-section of artists working in the field of Ambient Music. As no mainstays of the genre are...
Heath Yonaites produces Ambient Music at a level of sophistication rarely seen. His CD RIM OF THE SUN (64'10") is profoundly affecting. The album haunts you...
On INLANDISH (50'60"), Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Tim Story explore musical and personal memories. Their exuberant reimaginings of ideas set forth by Cluster...
Listening to HIGH PHIDELITY it is easy to hear Spyra drawing upon techno influences as much as the mysterious moods of the spacemusic realm. He views the body...
On ARC OF PASSION, Steve Roach re-imagines two earlier CDs, "Stormwarning" and "The Magnificent Void", for the 21st century. Roach's music has the ability to...
Both Jeff Coulter and Harrison McKay have been kicking around the Philadelphia Spacemusic scene for 25 years or so. Coulter, along with Chris Schwartz, played...
Chris MacDonald has the great ability to make old ingredients new. Working under the name Telomere, his music grows more sophisticated with each new release....
In the land of drones Pete Namlook is royalty. His murmuring soundscapes elicit a range of reactions, none of which is wrong. MUSIC FOR URBAN MEDITATION II...
The Winterhouse (the duo of Anthony Paul Kirby and Robert Davies) sonifies the cold interior isolation of the digital age. While SLOW PROMISES (62'57") is...
The four Galilean moons are the inspiration for DAUGHTERS OF JUPITER (61'37"), the wonderful collaboration between Tony Andersen and Kent Eskildsen of...
The Circular Ruins (Anthony Paul Kirby) is exploring a personal realm of assertive, emotional ambient music. A fascinating series of electronic poems that...
2007 was a big year for STAR'S END. The show marked its 30th anniversary with an all-day celebration concert on Saturday 16 June and released a double CD...
Evan Bartholomew seeks an elite audience. His work represents a vast range of expression through which smart listeners will follow. Widely known as the techno...
Once all the synths and sequencers have echoed out and it is time to return to Earth, STAR'S END turns to THE MARMALADE BALLOON (36'42"), a smart, artfully...
There is presently nothing out there to match the power of Redshift. Starting from the groundbreaking "Phaedra", their music traces an unbroken line across 25...
With KONTINUUM (76'22"), Klaus Schulze attracts new fans while holding old ones. His early works of the 1970s summon a mysterious cosmic energy - emanating...
FLUX ECHOES (73'26") pulses within the aura of "Ricochet";, "Rubycon" and "Phaedra". With these classics enshrined (along with an impressive inventory of '70s...
What would it sound like if Franco Falsini was involved with "Sombre Reptiles"? Probably like the opening track on PRISM OF ETERNAL NOW (71'14") by White...
On TINY COLOUR MOVIES (47'49"), John Foxx has assembled 15 different electronic pieces that, taken in sum, seem unconnected - until the album's smaller,...
Radio Massacre International is a trio of English musicians (Duncan Goddard, Steve Dinsdale, and Gary Houghton) known for their extended concerts of epic aural...
On GLACIATION (43'15"), Patrick O'Hearn applies his many musical talents to the ambient genre. When compared to earlier works this CD is quite subtle, but...
With each release, Arc (the British duo of Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy) ventures out across new sonic territory. The CD FRACTURE (53'34") exists at the...
Erik Wollo's dynamic sonic expeditions are well-conceived and melody driven. Lofty guitar themes intermingle easily with regal synth lines, cleverly crafted so...
On RADIO SILENCE (73'55"), Between Interval realizes music that inhabits two worlds - one of drones, texture and atmosphere, the other running along a digital...
The collection SACRED TREASURES V: From a Russian Cathedral (51'17") includes 16 contemplative and uplifting compositions for choir. These striking works by...
Over its 30 years on WXPN, STAR'S END has featured works from an enourmous cross-section of musicians and overseen the emergence and development of several new...
Describing the music on RISE (65'17") by Russel Walder might rob it of its mystical emotional resonance. This CD features 12 compositions about more than just...
STILL LIFE volume three (43'43") by Nelson Foltz + Tom Lynn blurs the borders between eastern drone, jazz and ambient music. One piece in three movements,...
Through improvisation Gregory Taylor finds patterns, moods and native flavors in his electronic realizations. By varying the speed and timbre of the cycling...
Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd recollect classical, new age and post-rock styles into a kind of ambient chamber music. The collaboration AFTER THE NIGHT FALLS...
