It has been said that there is no emotion that music cannot touch. So we must ask while listening to the most unique AFTER THE RAIN (65'27") which part of the...
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c_vanzyl
Aug 10, 2012 2:28 am
To those among us who are not yet fans of Erik Wollo, whatever are you waiting for? His exceptionally well-crafted music has been setting trends and stirring...
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c_vanzyl
Aug 17, 2012 3:29 am
Blind listening to LOST IN THE HUMMING AIR (70'58") will leave us pleased to have heard 13 excellent, well-crafted works of Ambient Music. But this anthology...
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c_vanzyl
Aug 24, 2012 3:25 am
The origins of Ambient Music seem to date back to Erik Satie and his idea of "Furniture Music", music that is present in a room and just as unobtrusive as its...
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c_vanzyl
Aug 31, 2012 1:11 am
To tell a story using moving images is the realm of cinema. The filmmakers behind "Baraka" and its sequel "Samsara" fully understand this - and in these films...
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c_vanzyl
Sep 14, 2012 3:16 am
David Wright is considered one of the UK's leading exponents of melodic instrumental music. His work spans a spectrum of styles but is always thematic with...
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c_vanzyl
Sep 21, 2012 3:34 am
Sensing the artist within the context of his body of work is easy with synthesist Paul Ellis. From his cassette culture days as the daring kid-with-a-synth and...
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c_vanzyl
Sep 28, 2012 3:13 am
In our daily modern lives it's all too easy for us to believe that our actions have little meaning. After all, what can just one person do to effect change or...
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c_vanzyl
Oct 5, 2012 4:21 am
NEST (65'50") starts off like many other CDs end. With consonant chords and spare piano notes Robert Rich begins a wonderful journey through eight distinctive...
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c_vanzyl
Oct 12, 2012 12:42 pm
The musical endeavours of Ian Boddy provide the listener with a rich atmosphere of original timbres and floating soundscapes. His music consistently sounds...
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c_vanzyl
Oct 19, 2012 4:09 am
The electronic music album MORPHOGENIC (60'04") shares more with the soundtracks of John Carpenter than it does with Spacemusic's Berlin-School. Using an...
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c_vanzyl
Oct 26, 2012 3:55 am
Although inspired by his environment the music of loscil sounds like it has been conceived by machines. Scott Morgan's SKETCHES FROM NEW BRIGHTON (55'21")...
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c_vanzyl
Nov 3, 2012 6:10 am
Playing across 11 tracks, the music on ATMOSPHERIC VARIATIONS (75'51") by Divine Matrix changes much like the weather does. With each passing song the listener...
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c_vanzyl
Nov 9, 2012 3:48 am
Vic Hennegan carries something with him everywhere he goes. In his heart he keeps the entire Universe and with each album release he shares something of it...
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c_vanzyl
Nov 16, 2012 5:15 am
Over the course of his musical existence Chuck van Zyl has developed a signature exploratory style. By blending the primitive machine beauty of classics like...
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c_vanzyl
Nov 23, 2012 1:48 am
Loops are everywhere, and when Steve Moore creates one that does not become redundant his audience slips into a different space. His CD LIGHT ECHOES (70'26")...
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c_vanzyl
Nov 30, 2012 3:56 am
Hidetoshi Koizumi is based in Tokyo under the name Hybrid Leisureland while Alexandre Scheffer works as Cell in Paris. "Scroll Slide" and "Hanging Masses" are...
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c_vanzyl
Dec 7, 2012 7:15 am
Stephen Parsick hears the call of the wild, and answers it. His concert CD ASTRAL DISASTER (76'28") plays like a souped-up rebuild of "Ricochet"; or "Departure...
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c_vanzyl
Dec 14, 2012 4:04 am
Creating layers of space out of pumping sequencer patterns, strident lead lines and harmonies warm and golden Chuck van Zyl & Terry Furber explore the inner...
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c_vanzyl
Dec 21, 2012 3:48 am
On WINTER GARDENS (63'21") Anthony Paul Kerby and Robert Davies achieve a tranquil and understated sonic poetry. Recording their fourth CD together as The...
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c_vanzyl
Dec 28, 2012 4:39 am
As digital and computer based synthesizers replace texture with gloss, many current music makers seek out classic analog styled instruments to attain a warmth...
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c_vanzyl
Jan 4, 2013 3:37 am
Highs in the 70s is WXPN's retrospective of the significant music realized during the decade of the 1970s, one of the most expansive periods in contemporary...
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c_vanzyl
Jan 11, 2013 3:49 am
Glenn Main is truly a player working in a player's medium. His musical influences include many of the greats, including Klaus Schulze, Vangelis, Tangerine...
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c_vanzyl
Jan 18, 2013 4:17 pm
Music by Stephen Parsick is of a machine-hewn darkness, roiling in a dense electronic atmosphere of doom. More difficult to know is from whence this intensity...
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c_vanzyl
Jan 25, 2013 4:11 am
Ever the innovator Saul Stokes should by now be known for exploiting the heretofore under-realized possibilities of the synthesizer studio. On FORMATION...
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c_vanzyl
Feb 1, 2013 6:01 am
UK synthesist Andy Condon releases music under the name The Glimmer Room. Those familiar with his work know it to always be full of interesting musical ideas,...
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c_vanzyl
Feb 8, 2013 3:28 am
As a rock guitarist readys himself to play the first note of a song does he ever consider how will this note or this song be any different from the multitude...
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c_vanzyl
Feb 15, 2013 4:29 am
UK synthesist Ian Boddy has thus far played live on STAR'S END Ambient Radio four times (five if we count the on-air concert he did with Mark Shreeve in their...
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c_vanzyl
Feb 22, 2013 3:40 am
Chronotope Project, the musical persona of Jeffrey Ericson Allen, produces an electronic music realized without turning off the conscious mind. His CD...
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c_vanzyl
Mar 1, 2013 3:47 am
Good Spacemusic suggests the possibility of escape from finite existence. Telomere, the extraordinary Electronic Musician Chris MacDonald, is working towards...
