It seems impossible to focus fully on violinist Angelé Dubeau and her ensemble La Pieté when the subject of this CD's collection is so present in his work....
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May 14, 2010 3:10 pm
Every composer writes in the influences they grew up with. Throughout his interesting career the celebrated German synthesist Spyra has built upon a foundation...
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May 21, 2010 12:44 am
The mission of STAR'S END is to preserve, encourage and broadcast the music of artists in Ambient sound - and ultimately to provide listeners with an...
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c_vanzyl
Jun 11, 2010 3:12 am
Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve have been making music together as the duo Arc since 1998 when their first studio CD "Octane" came about. This collaboration has...
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c_vanzyl
Jun 18, 2010 3:53 am
The raw material out of which music by Mark Mahoney & Michael Peck is realized is not old cosmic music LPs but the ebb and flow of life. Their CD A LIFE...
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c_vanzyl
Jun 25, 2010 3:01 am
It takes a keen ear to connect the music of The Tangent Project between the live and studio releases - and to the very early work in the 1980s, back when known...
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Jul 9, 2010 4:14 am
ICESCAPES (44'33") certainly lives up to its title. Using rounded tones and crystalline timbres the music of Janne Hanhisuanto becomes a portal to a frosty...
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c_vanzyl
Jul 16, 2010 3:57 am
Whenever K Leimer sets his thoughts to music, the true topic is the passage of time. His CD DEGRADED CERTAINTIES (72'10") engages and maintains our curiosity...
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c_vanzyl
Jul 23, 2010 2:04 am
Musical projects by Steve Roach have in varying degrees been very personal expressions. His CD SIGH OF AGES (73'50") establishes and explores six unique...
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c_vanzyl
Jul 30, 2010 3:10 am
Knowing something of the individual works by Alio Die + Parallel Worlds makes their collaboration all the more interesting - as their sound worlds merge and...
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c_vanzyl
Aug 6, 2010 3:34 pm
Recording under the name Ambientportal DJ/Synthesist Mykl Neufeld realizes complex and nuanced sonic renderings from the treasury of his mind. The idea of...
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c_vanzyl
Aug 13, 2010 3:00 am
Dave Luxton shows great promise on PORTAL (49'16"). This release features eight studies in tone production. Instantly accessible, the music seems familiar yet...
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c_vanzyl
Aug 20, 2010 2:58 am
Rudy Adrian is one of a few contemporary Electronic Musicians capable of bringing the awesome energy of the cosmos into the musical listening area. His CD...
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c_vanzyl
Aug 27, 2010 3:30 am
Elve is yet another musical incarnation of Matt Hillier. Also known as Ishq, Ishvara and Indigo Egg, Hillier's work as Elve is decidedly more towards the...
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c_vanzyl
Sep 3, 2010 3:01 am
Solar Fields is known throughout the music community as an adventurer within the Electronica genre - although his music does sometimes find its way back to a...
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c_vanzyl
Sep 11, 2010 3:38 am
On THE CROSSING (70'45") David Helpling + Jon Jenkins create a synthetic seventh heaven where the muses of Patrick O'Hearn, Steve Roach and Lanterna play. The...
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c_vanzyl
Sep 17, 2010 3:31 am
Bonnie McNairn and Jim Wilson make up Voice of Eye and have been exploring a shared idiosyncratic sonic vision since 1989. Throughout their storied career this...
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c_vanzyl
Sep 24, 2010 2:29 am
With its ever changing cast of musicians and constantly roving musical direction, Blow Up Hollywood both impresses and confounds with a surprising range of...
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c_vanzyl
Oct 1, 2010 3:10 am
After three CDs worth of impressionistic sonic vignettes, Amongst Myselves has realized FRAGMENTS (56'57"), an album which combines the sounds and forms from...
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c_vanzyl
Oct 8, 2010 1:44 am
The mission of STAR'S END is to provide listeners with an experience that is enriching to the human spirit. Every week for well over 30 years STAR'S END...
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c_vanzyl
Oct 15, 2010 5:27 am
On NIGHTBLOOM (73'42") Steve Roach & Mark Seelig peer into darkness. This cyber-tribal album in five parts seems not real, or real in a different way. The...
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c_vanzyl
Oct 22, 2010 2:43 am
The world is much smaller now in 2010 than when David Parsons first began playing Spacemusic. When his classic cassettes "Tibetan Plateau" (1982) and "Sounds...
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c_vanzyl
Oct 29, 2010 6:52 am
The interior human landscape was once solely the province of literature. These days this realm is shared with artists in electronic sound. A distinctive group...
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c_vanzyl
Nov 6, 2010 1:53 am
em:t Records, based in Nottingham, UK, defined ambient notions of the mid-90's through a series of genre-bending albums which sought to quietly undermine...
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c_vanzyl
Nov 12, 2010 6:12 am
Best known as host of STAR'S END (WXPN's renowned radio program of spacemusic dreamscapes) and as coordinator of The Gatherings (Philadelphia's premiere...
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c_vanzyl
Nov 19, 2010 4:13 am
URBANISATION (51'10") begins with an ever growing cloud of dull white noise. This seems simple enough but somehow Aairria (Marcin Drabot), using just this...
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c_vanzyl
Nov 26, 2010 4:11 am
Gel-Sol (Andrew Reichel) works under the principle of permanent revolution. On his CD K8EMA (70'07") he re-purposes New Age, Orchestral and even some early...
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c_vanzyl
Dec 3, 2010 8:52 pm
As host of the STAR'S END radio program, Chuck van Zyl has been quietly pointing out complex connections between musical forms for over 30 years. As organizer...
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c_vanzyl
Dec 10, 2010 5:27 pm
On WATER STORIES (51'02") Janne Hanhisuanto embraces the power of simplicity and realizes a gently harmonious, very calming, very bewitching album. In just a...
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c_vanzyl
Dec 17, 2010 5:56 am
At first listen the music of Kyle Bobby Dunn seems like that of many other drone artists, but upon closer examination we find him to be realizing a ...
