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Van: Groove Unlimited Datum: 03/09/07 19:43:51 Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: [Groove] E-News 528 (9 March 2007)
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TANGERINE DREAM Part two is called "Summer in Nagasaki" and not "Springtime part 2". Give Back
Yahoo! for Good PROGRESSIVE SOUNDSCAPES Get inspired is doing a special 2 weekends, from the 16th through the 19th, on by a good cause. RUDY ADRIAN's music. All during the weekend we're going to be airing some rare unreleased Y! Toolbar material that Rudy had sent us over the years, including a special Get it Free! live in-studio performance that Rudy recorded exclusively for our easy 1-click access program as well as some past unreleased live concert material. We'll to your groups. also be giving away 5 autographed copies of Rudy's newest cd, Moonwater which also includes a copy of a special EP that includes 3 Yahoo! Groups unreleased tracks destined for the new Sequencer Sketches cd. Start a group The address to write to for a chance to win the autographed copy of in 3 easy steps. Moonwater along with the special EP of unreleased material is, Connect with others. [email protected] (John Garaguso)
Progressive Soundscapes "Where Artistic Expressions Resonate" Internet Radio Broadcasting live 24/7 at www.progressivesoundscapes.com To connect, go to: http://216.66.69.90 Port 8090 for mono http://216.66.69.90 Port 8092 for stereo
FRANK VAN BOGAERT will have a stall at E-day on 28th April to promote his latest album "Nomads". Frank has also started to write the score for a Belgian computer animated movie, "Kristal Van Hoop" based on Luc Descamps' book. It's an epic medieval adventurous story and the music is going to be very classical (no electronics) but Frank's feel for majestic melodies and arrangements will be very recognizable. The movie is planned to be released after summer 2008.
NEW PRODUCTS These products are NEW in our catalog. Further in this newsletter are more details. Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4 (25th anniversary edition) (cd) Klaus Hoffmann-Hoock & Bernhard Wostheinrich - Conundrum (cd) Eppie Hulshof - Besucher aus dem Kosmos (cdr) Frederick Rousseau - Travels (cd) Tangerine Dream - Madcap's flaming duty (dvd + cd) Tangerine Dream - Springtime in Nagasaki (cd) Tangerine Dream - Summer in Nagasaki (cd) V/A - Awakenings 2007 volume 1 (2-cdr) V/A - Awakenings 2007 volume 1.5 (cdr)
AVAILABLE AGAIN These products are available again. Further in this newsletter are more details. Biosphere - Microgravity (cd) .
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Biosphere - Shenzou (cd) <-- LAST COPY! Biosphere - Substrata (cd) <-- LAST COPY! Vangelis - Soil festivities (cd) Erik Wollo - Where it all begins (cd) <-- LAST COPY!
DECREASED PRICES These products are decreased in price. Further in this newsletter are more details. Mind-Flux - Destination space (dvd-PAL) $19.25 , £11.75 , €16.25 Mike Oldfield - Art in heaven concert (dvd-PAL) $17.75 , £10.99 , €14.99 Mike Oldfield - Elements (dvd-PAL) $23.99 , £14.75 , €20.25 Mike Oldfield - Tubular bells 2 & 3 (dvd-PAL) $18.99 , £11.75 , €15.99 Mike Oldfield - Tubular bells 2003 (dvd + cd) $16.75 , £10.25 , €13.99
Until the next time!
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NON-GROOVE UNLIMITED LABEL 1: Tangerine Dream - Springtime in Nagasaki (cd) 2: Tangerine Dream - Summer in Nagasaki (cd) 3: Tangerine Dream - Madcap's flaming duty (dvd + cd) 4: Wahnfried - Trance appeal (cd) 5: Klaus Schulze - Live (2-cd) 6: Klaus Schulze - Blackdance (cd) 7: Klaus Schulze - Ballett 3 (cd) 8: Tangerine Dream - Live at Coventry cathedral (dvd) 9: Edgar Froese - Views from a red train (cd) 10: Tangerine Dream - Madcap's flaming duty (cd)
GROOVE UNLIMITED LABEL 1: Frank Van Bogaert - Nomads (cd) 2: Jerome Froese - C8 H10 N4 O2 (cd single) 3: Ron Boots - Acoustic shadows (cd) 4: Volt - Through the rings (cd) 5: Gert Emmens - Tale of the warlock (cd) 6: Hemisphere - Rambling voyage (cd) 7: Can Atilla - Concorde (cd) 8: David Parsons - Vajra (cd) 9: Embrase - Dreamworld (cd) 10: John Lakveet - Force of reason (cd)
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Additions and changes from March 4 2007 till March 9 2007
Airsculpture - TRANCEATLANTIC (2-cd) 28115 2006. From US tour and Gatherings concert. Review(s) added US$ 28.49 / UKP 17.25 / EURO 23.99 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=28115
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Anderson, Jon - ANIMATION (cd) 47561 1982/2007. Incl. "Surrender". Remastered. Contains 2 bonus tracks. Review(s) added US$ 23.99 / UKP 14.75 / EURO 20.25 Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=47561
Anderson, Jon - PROMISE RING (cd) 31978 1997/2006. Yes-singer goes Celtic. Review(s) added US$ 18.99 / UKP 11.75 / EURO 15.99 We have only ONE copy, so order soon! Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=31978
Artemiev, Artemiy & De Laurenti, Christopher - 57 MINUTES TO SILENCE (cd) 85255 2002. Ethereal electronics and ghostly samples. Review(s) added US$ 18.99 / UKP 11.75 / EURO 15.99 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=85255
Back to the Moon - DREAMCATCHER (cdr) 32536 2006/2007. Track listing added/changed US$ 19.25 / UKP 11.75 / EURO 16.25 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=32536
Berry, Ron - TEMPLES (cdr) 27831 2006. New album. Review(s) added US$ 19.75 / UKP 11.99 / EURO 16.49 Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=27831
Biosphere - MICROGRAVITY (cd) 12650 1991. Ambient. Re-entry US$ 21.49 / UKP 12.99 / EURO 17.99 Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=12650
Biosphere - SHENZOU (cd) 47442 2002. Ambient. Digipak Re-entry US$ 20.25 / UKP 12.25 / EURO 16.99 We have only ONE copy, so first come - first go! Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=47442
Biosphere - SUBSTRATA (cd) 27780 1997. Few rhythms, spacey, dreamy. Digipak Re-entry US$ 21.49 / UKP 12.99 / EURO 17.99 We have only ONE copy! Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=27780
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Budd, Harold - SERPENT (IN QUICKSILVER) (cd) 25230 1992/2004. Beautiful, dark, shimmery. Review(s) added US$ 23.25 / UKP 14.25 / EURO 19.49 Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=25230
Coronel, Rody - COFFEE MOMENT (cd) 73388 2007. Versatile, melodic tunes. Review(s) added US$ 18.99 / UKP 11.75 / EURO 15.99 Details/soundclips/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=73388
Dorian - INDUSTRIAL LOVE (cdr) 25711 2007. Track listing added/changed US$ 19.25 / UKP 11.75 / EURO 16.25 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=25711
Emmens, Gert - A BOY'S WORLD (cd) gr-143 2007. New cd. Track listing added/changed Release date: Oct 13 2007 US$ 18.75 / UKP 11.49 / EURO 15.75 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=gr-143
Focus - FOCUS 3 (cd) 32428 1972/2001. Including "Sylvia". Remastered. Review(s) added US$ 17.75 / UKP 10.99 / EURO 14.99 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=32428
Froese, Jerome - C8 H10 N4 O2 (cd single) gr-116 2004. Style: Dream Mixes 4. Review(s) added US$ 14.25 / UKP 8.75 / EURO 11.99 Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=gr- 116
Gandalf - INTO THE LIGHT (cd) 24587 1999. Indian vocal chants over Gandalf music. Digipak Review(s) added US$ 23.75 / UKP 14.49 / EURO 19.99 Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=24587
Gilmour, David - ON AN ISLAND (cd) 48582 2006. Songs and instrumentals. Digipak Review(s) added US$ 22.49 / UKP 13.75 / EURO 18.99 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=48582
Gottsching, Manuel - E2-E4 (25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) (cd) 84064 1981/2007. All time classic. 5/5 stars. Remastered. Digipak NEW entry
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Release date: Mar 19 2007 US$ 23.49 / UKP 14.25 / EURO 19.75 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=84064
Hennegan, Vic - DESERT GOD (cd) 23043 2005. Rich texture of sound. Review(s) added US$ 15.25 / UKP 9.25 / EURO 12.75 These are the LAST copies!! Details/soundclips/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=23043
Hoffmann-Hoock, Klaus & Wostheinrich, Bernhard - CONUNDRUM (cd) 14798 2007. Space guitar, rhythms, atmospheres. NEW entry / Review, cover and track listing added Release date: Apr 28 2007 US$ 21.49 / UKP 12.99 / EURO 17.99 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=14798
Hulshof, Eppie - BESUCHER AUS DEM KOSMOS (cdr) 64250 2007. Very Schulze sounding. NEW entry / Track listing + cover added US$ 18.99 / UKP 11.75 / EURO 15.99 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=64250
Jenssen, Geir - CHO OYU 8201M (cd) 84137 2006. Absorbing audio travelogue of his journey to Tibet. Special packaging Review, cover and track listing added US$ 21.75 / UKP 13.25 / EURO 18.25 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=84137
Macmillan, Miles - ALIENATED (cd) 11337 2003. 8 original instrumental tracks. Review(s) added US$ 17.25 / UKP 10.49 / EURO 14.49 Details/soundclips/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=11337
Mind-Flux - DESTINATION SPACE (dvd-PAL) 37367 2005. Computer animated and real scenes from outer space. Substantial price reduction US$ 19.25 / UKP 11.75 / EURO 16.25 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=37367
Oldfield, Mike - ART IN HEAVEN CONCERT (dvd-PAL) 67689 2001. Zone 2-6. Live in Berlin + extras. Substantial price reduction US$ 17.75 / UKP 10.99 / EURO 14.99 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=67689
Oldfield, Mike - ELEMENTS (dvd-PAL) 31396 2004. Zone 0. 150 mins, 20 videos, interview ++. Substantial price reduction US$ 23.99 / UKP 14.75 / EURO 20.25 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=31396
Oldfield, Mike - TUBULAR BELLS 2003 (dvd + cd) 15968 2003. DVD with 3 tracks in digital 5.1. Substantial price reduction US$ 16.75 / UKP 10.25 / EURO 13.99
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Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=15968
Oldfield, Mike - TUBULAR BELLS 2 & 3 (dvd-PAL) 37746 1999. 125 mins. Region 2,3,4,5,6. Substantial price reduction US$ 18.99 / UKP 11.75 / EURO 15.99 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=37746
Padilla, Craig - LIGHT IN THE SHADOW (cd) 76797 2006. Uplifting, drifting, melodious. Review(s) added US$ 18.99 / UKP 11.75 / EURO 15.99 Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=76797
Padilla, Craig & Zero Ohms - PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE (cd) 88362 2005. Space and ambient. Review(s) added US$ 16.75 / UKP 10.25 / EURO 13.99 Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=88362
Papen, Rob - DAYDREAMER (cd) 37976 2004. Typical Peru music and sounds. Review(s) added US$ 18.99 / UKP 11.75 / EURO 15.99 Details/soundclips/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=37976
Parsick, Stephen - HOELLENENGEL (cd) 81727 2005. Mix of Lustmord and Blade Runner. Review(s) added US$ 20.75 / UKP 12.75 / EURO 17.49 Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=81727
Rousseau, Frederick - TRAVELS (cd) 27319 2007. NEW entry / Track listing + cover added US$ 16.75 / UKP 10.25 / EURO 13.99 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=27319
Schnauss, Ulrich - A STRANGELY ISOLATED PLACE (cd) 44409 2003. Modern soundscapes. A bit like Cursor Club. Review(s) added US$ 22.99 / UKP 13.99 / EURO 19.25 Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=44409
Schnitzler, Conrad - BLAU (cd) 57436 1974/2001. More rhythmical than "Rot". Remastered. Contains 6 bonus tracks. Track listing + cover added US$ 21.99 / UKP 13.49 / EURO 18.49 Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=57436
Schulze, Klaus - BALLETT 3 (cd) 24147 2000/2007. Originally disc 8 of Contemporary Works. Remastered.
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Contains 1 bonus track. Digipak Cover, track listing and soundclip(s) added Release date: Apr 2 2007 US$ 25.25 / UKP 15.49 / EURO 21.25 Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=24147
Schulze, Klaus - BLACKDANCE (cd) 39527 1974/2007. With Ernst Walter Siemon. Remastered. Contains 1 bonus track. Digipak Cover, track listing and soundclip(s) added Release date: Apr 2 2007 US$ 25.25 / UKP 15.49 / EURO 21.25 Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=39527
Schulze, Klaus - MOONLAKE (cd) 27015 2005. Mix of live and studio. Review(s) added US$ 23.25 / UKP 14.25 / EURO 19.49 Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=27015
Tangerine Dream - LIVE AT COVENTRY CATHEDRAL (dvd) 85605 1975/2007. NTSC, region 0. Review(s) added US$ 26.49 / UKP 16.25 / EURO 22.25 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=85605
Tangerine Dream - MADCAP'S FLAMING DUTY (dvd + cd) 25527 2007. With behind the scenes material. Contains 1 bonus track. NEW entry / Track listing + cover added Release date: March 30 2007 US$ 36.75 / UKP 22.49 / EURO 30.99 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=25527
Tangerine Dream - SPRINGTIME IN NAGASAKI (cd) 38958 2007. Part #1 of a serie of 5. NEW entry / Track listing + cover added Release date: Mar 23 2007 US$ 22.99 / UKP 13.99 / EURO 19.25 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=38958
Tangerine Dream - SUMMER IN NAGASAKI (cd) 26629 2007. Part #2 of a serie of 5. NEW entry Release date: Jul 2007 US$ 22.99 / UKP 13.99 / EURO 19.25 Ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=26629
Transceive - TRANSFORMATION 88:98 (cd) 53422 2006. Style: Dyson, Whitlan. Review(s) added US$ 20.25 / UKP 12.25 / EURO 16.99 Details/soundclips/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=53422
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V/A - AWAKENINGS 2007 VOLUME 1 (2-cdr) 61740 2007. Pollard, FSP, Create, Keller/Schonwalder ++. NEW entry / Track listing + cover added US$ 24.75 / UKP 14.99 / EURO 20.75 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=61740
V/A - AWAKENINGS 2007 VOLUME 1.5 (cdr) 70149 2007. Alexander, Phrozenlight, Storey ++. NEW entry / Track listing + cover added US$ 16.75 / UKP 10.25 / EURO 13.99 Details/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php?artnum=70149
Vangelis - SOIL FESTIVITIES (cd) 38750 1984. A jewel in his oeuvre. Re-entry US$ 14.25 / UKP 8.75 / EURO 11.99 Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=38750
Wollo, Erik - WHERE IT ALL BEGINS (cd) 30703 1983/1999. Early work from 1982-83. Contains 3 bonus tracks. Re-entry US$ 20.25 / UKP 12.25 / EURO 16.99 We have only ONE copy, so order soon! Details/soundclip/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=30703
Wouden, René van der - RECREATION (cdr) 24723 2007. Melodic, rhythmic. Review(s) added US$ 18.75 / UKP 11.49 / EURO 15.75 Details/soundclips/ordering: http://www.groove.nl/jump2.php? artnum=24723
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RODY CORONEL - COFFEE MOMENT (CD) The intro of Visitors lets glide an intriguing line on a light rattling which whirls helped by a hot wind with the fluty breaths. A dark static movement where the layers are threatening and suffocate voices, which we are unaware of the source. This dark structure with undulating pulsations crosses Coffee Moment all over his 11 tracks, even if sometimes there is the vague impression to hear an intimate opus. Lakeside is a sublime melody with a tormented piano which curves in front of dense and noble violin layers. Ordered movements which sprinkle the movement of a sentimental dew and an archaic sensitivity. Difficult to proscribe. We easily recognizes the Vangelis style on Inside. A beautiful ballad which brings us back to the beautiful area of l'Apocalypse des Animaux. Here, the sonority is more fluid and more up to date more, tracing a Blade Runner furrow, demystifying the variation of the times.
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Resulting from the thunders and an abundant rain, the keys of You and Me flow on a static movement with a weak modulation. A `' vocoder' ' recites what seems to be a threatening text, in an arid environment. Frizzy begins on beautiful synth with floating and fluffy notes that lead to a nervous and hopping sequence and beautiful sound effects. A title which puts much pressure on hopping rhythm which goes up and down, in a cascade of limpid notes which circle without modulating rhythm. Coffee Moment is a superb part jazzed on a heavy and suction-cup pulsation that a sax charms of its floating and cosmic breath. Floatation is very representative of its title, with a fine serpentine line with shimmering notes that float in harmony with its astral spirit. A beautiful title, at the same time static and atonic, that Rody Coronel decorates with cosmic sound effects, exactly as the delectable Answer which turns in spiral mode, with the same tonality. Faster and more harmonious, the piano brings an intimate touch with a fine movement of harp, before a rude synth breaks the charm with its loopy solos. Our eyes close, as we follow Glider is like listening Vangelis. A beautiful melody which lull on languid layers à laVangelis and movements of harp spiral keys. Nightshift is the more rhythmic track on Coffee Moment. Spiral notes on throbbing tempo with good percussions and good of guitars and synth solos, on a slow and hypnotic move. Aria closes with a soft atonic lullaby, like a cosmic ballet. It is beautiful, rapturous and very theatrical. Coffee Moment is a breath of fresh air that flow easily in our ears. Yes it is far from being a complex work of EM, but it's the kind that have soul, spirit and good structure that result in short tracks, like the New Berlin School. Those who loved Frank Van Bogaert, Dom F Scab and all this generation of EM composers who created harmonious EM will be very please by this sensitive, with a bit of static darkness, album. Sylvain / Canada
CRAIG PADILLA / ZERO OHMS - PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE (CD) I guess this collaboration shouldn't surprise me too much. Though I know Craig Padilla mostly for his melodic and sequencer-based space music, he also has done excellent floating ambient albums like Temporal Suspension and the particularly stark and minimal Vostok. Of course, Zero Ohms is no stranger to ambience and drones. "Leaving This Shadow of Heaven" starts with undulating reverberations that set the tone early no sequencing, and delicate melodies drenched with atmosphere. This is deep space music, like Jonn Serrie but a tad more sparse and expansive. The pure space sounds also remind me of Michael Stearns' classic Planetary Unfolding. A little bit of sequencing figures here and there, for example on the slow and steady "The
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Everything That is No Thing." The pulsing is a bit faster on "The One," while flutes add an airy touch to the Berlin School musical style. Nevertheless, this CD is primarily about floating through space and expanding the mind. The title track blends ambient, Native American, and new age textures together in a relaxing closing number. Subtleties throughout reward attentive and repeat listening. Phil Derby / Electroambient Space
MILES MACMILLAN - ALIENATED (CD) This cd from 2003 offers 43 minutes of lively electronic music Canadian musician MacMillan has quite a peppy style, mixing frolicsome keyboards with mechanoid E-perc to generate compositions that are all in an outer space vein. In fact, MacMillan cites that this album is "a soundtrack to an imaginary sci-fi film, in which a member of an unnamed alien cult locks himself into an isolation chamber in preparation for a visitation by alien beings." Numerous layers of melodic keyboards intertwine to produce compelling riffs that cavort through the audience's head with elegant abandon. Uptempo synthetic percussion adds an agreeable presence to the music, infusing pleasant rhythms to the soaring harmonics. The electronics employ a versatile palette, ranging from densely clustered bass tones to exuberant high-end expressions that slice through the clouds like glowing blades. Heavenly textures coexist with earthy resonance, giving the tunes a delicate-yet-vibrant demeanor. The melodies are bouncy and friendly. A strong dance factor exists in tandem with this music's electronic grandeur, tickling the feet as it engages the mind. While MacMillan explores "alienation", his music achieves a grounding effect, reattaching mankind to its mental roots through these fanciful flights. Matt Howarth
TANGERINE DREAM - LIVE AT COVENTRY CATHEDRAL (DVD) I'm a long time TD fan going back to '73 onwards and am rarely negative about any of their releases, old or new. This however is very disappointing. If you want 30 mins footage of Froese/Franke/Baumann TD not appearing to do very much with psychedelic overlays then fine, but be warned that the soundtrack is lifted directly from the Ricochet album - so for example you hear electric guitar but don't see it being played! I would have preferred a documentary with real excerpts to this 'silent movie'. Smacks of commercial exploitation. No special features. Mike Potter / UK
TRANSCEIVE - TRANSFORMATION 88:98 (CD) 1Landscape Of Tomorrow 10:29 Starts off with raspy breathy synths and Blade runner-like timbres. A slow rhythm starts (a tad like TD's Legend soundtrack). The tension builds, until drums punch in and a rather `80's like Propaganda bass line joins it, over this Steven plays a solid melody, and this is soon joined by new sequences. Over all it reminded me a bit of Mark Shreeve's Crash head album, bombastic and melodic with lots of twists and turns building to a 'Jarre like' synth solo and a huge rumbling, echoing ending. 2 Element Of Intrigue 7:38 Starts with an eerie Synergy/Larry Fast
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like note, over this echoing drums with a `mid-paced' JMJ arrangement are added. An interesting piano melody is added over yearning synth cries and echoing crashes. The chord and bass line interplay are just brilliant. Once again Steven shows he can craft a great tune, whilst showing he can be influenced by but doesn't have to copy others, something a few EM artists could learn from. 3 Moving Target 4:42 We're back in Crash head territory here, good stuff (although personally I could have done without the sampled cries). The drums twist from Art of Noise to Kraftwerk and back, whilst metallic sequences push the track forward. The track ends with a brief War zone sample. 4 Biomechanoid 5:37 A brief atmospheric pads introduces a big stomping 4 on the floor track (think Eat Static jamming with Fluke). A top tune, and if you like upbeat stuff you'll love it. Is that a sample from the 6 million dollar man I can hear? 5 Creature Of Legend 6:44 Starts with a BIG FOOT movie sample (hence the title…d'oh!), a sampled flute melody replaces it, this is soon joined by a big thumping rhythm over Art of Noise like percussion and sampled acoustic guitar sequences. A good solid track. 6 The Rebus Tape 8:15 An ominous start, this is soon overlaid with an analog like rattling drum pattern, a high sequence and a nice melody (with much pitch bending). Steven uses a great echoed noise effect over a lush minor key chords progression The piece builds again with a portamento gliding sequence, effects driven drums and a great melody. Brilliant 7 Delusions 6:32 A totally different track, with 'right in your face' drums and TD like sequences (I can't quite place where I've heard the drum sounds before but they're great) with old movie clip samples, sequence after sequence are added and the excitement is kept up to until skidding halt for a few bars of piano and then bang! We're back into the sequencer-fest again, this time with an added melody line to close. Another winner for me 8 Facade (excerpt) 3:15 Sounds like something from Foreign movie thriller (subtitles not needed), bending pads and other hard to place sounds play whilst huge stabs pound in the background. These then die away leaving a breathy melody, over eerie effects (think 1980's TD) 9 Eastern Promise 3:59 Begins with an electric piano, but it's soon gives way to a more dance influenced feel, complete with snare builds and sampled vocal snippets (the descending piano motif reminded me of TD's more recent work). Good to see Steven trying other styles 10 The All Seeing Eye 6:48 A totally different track, very much like some of TD's early `80's soundtrack work, all ethereal sinuous pads, (slightly like Remote viewing from TD's album Exit meets Propeller Island's the Secret Convention), phased and echoing, subtle and atmospheric it wouldn't sound out of place on one of the better Fax label CDs. Superb. 11 Thru Rugged Terrain 7:26 A big swirling JMJ pad introduces what might be my favorite track from Transceive ever. A big, bouncy, 'EM meets Club' track. For me it's got everything, great drums, Propaganda like brass stabs over phased chords, a memorable chord progression and a solid melody. Andy King / UK
RON BERRY - TEMPLES (CDR) Throughout his involvement in electronic sound, Ron Berry has realized an interesting array of work. From deeply shadowed dreamscapes to intricate and thoughtful contemporary instrumentals, Berry's albums
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have always spoke in the terms of spacemusic - though with a distinctive accent. His 2005 release Temples (73'08") comes on the tail of Berry having re-issued his 20 years of work on CD and coincidentally rediscovering himself in the process. The album is a fascinating union of imagination, music and technology concocted out of the raw sonic material found in his virtual world of sound. The opening track "Forgotten Temples" (10'37") sets an ominous mood. An electronic bell tolls, wispy synthesizer pads breath and an intriguing journey along staggered rhythms and discreet melodies begins. From this base, the music advances as in an orderly march with conventional leads and chords, but just as easily does the playlist cleverly sway and tilt in unpredictable directions. The brighter compositions have an unadorned and joyful quality to them while the darker pieces are solemn and mysterious. Berry's personal and somewhat scientific approach to music shapes the unique sound of his work. Well-known in the UK for building his own electronic instrumentation and as an early innovator of acoustic modeling synthesis, Berry's insight onto music looks beyond the manipulation of timbre and peers down to the building blocks of sound. Chuck van Zyl / Star's End
CRAIG PADILLA - THE LIGHT IN THE SHADOW (CD) This CD from 2006 offers 64 minutes of languid ambience. Joining Padilla on this release is Skip Murphy, who contributes additional synths and sequencing. This music unfurls with fragile patience, generating ethereal atmospherics punctuated by slightly denser electronic effects. As the piece progresses, substance accretes with feathery determination, augmenting the soundscape and frequently driving the harmonics into a more demonstrative presence. Despite these periodic swellings, a heavenly air is maintained. The mood is one of constant subtlety, designed to infuse calm and inspire introspection. A luxurious disposition is generated by sighing textures and gently sweeping tones. Chords of crystalline demeanor are gradually introduced to the mix, injecting instances of release to the generally passive structure. The soundscape oscillates with expansive elegance, streaming to saturate the environment with its comfortable ambience. Although presented as one long track, the composition possesses a series of stages that are nearly indistinguishable because of the song's seamless structure. While the vaporous foundation endures, various suggestive embellishments generate a gradual evolution that flavors the current with languid keyboard riffs and intermingling tones. Matt Howarth / Sonic Curiosity
STEPHEN PARSICK - HOELLENENGEL (CD) Get to know me a bit and you will soon begin to see that I have a bit of a Blade Runner fixation. By saying "a bit" a really mean a full blown addiction. Several years ago when I was maintaining a special effects makeup website I choose a domain name that was a reference to Blade Runner replicants.org . The idea of living in a time where rogue androids are running amuck and effin shiznat up is amazing. (Not to mention the beautiful cityscapes that warped my perception and gave me a very serious love for run down buildings and strong back lighting)
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Heck, even the 2019 in my blog name is a BR nod... So, what does this have to do with Stephen Parsick and his record Hollenengel? Everything. Stephen is also a HUGE Blade Runner fan. It's evident the first time you listen to the droning synths of Der Tod , or the big analog synth lead of Der Prinz . The dark soundscapes are made possible (according to the press info on his website through "...the same sort of equipment Vangelis had at his disposal when he recorded the score" At times it sounds like what could have been a collaboration between John Carpenter, Coil, Vangelis, with just a little bit of Isao Tomita thrown in for good measure. The album (which took 4 years to record) was created "entirely without computers, multi-track recorders, sequencers, MIDI interfaces or overdubs." This was a true labor of love and would be a welcomed adition to the library of any fan of dark ambient, or film scores. Arvin Clay / USA
FOCUS - FOCUS 3 (CD) This is more like it. With their third album, Focus improved upon many of the weaknesses of Moving Waves. The imprints of their influences remain (Thijs van Leer's ELP-styled organ passages, in particular), but by this release Focus had acquired as much of an individual identity as they were going to get. Like the previous album, III is comprised of short songs and long jams. The greatest improvements are audible on the shorter tracks. Unlike the fragments that the band passed off as songs on Moving Waves, the shorter songs on III sound much more polished. What's more, they sound good. "Round Goes the Gossip" starts the album at an upbeat pace. It's nothing really special and it doesn't have a great riff like "Hocus Pocus," but it is structured around bouncy melodic themes that the band takes the time to develop. Such is the formula for the short songs, all of which I would describe as being pleasant and catchy, even if they aren't masterpieces. Two songs stand out: "Love Remembered" and "Sylvia." "Love Remembered" is a swooping, ethereal instrumental (the whole album is entirely instrumental apart from incidental vocals that pop up on occasion) that is everything the short instrumentals on Moving Waves were not: memorable, melodic and complete. "Sylvia," a minor hit for the band, continues in a roughly similar vein and is even more melodically developed. Then there are the jams. I think that "Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!" is a good extended instrumental that is a marked improvement over the previous album's "Eruption." The music benefits from the band's looser, jazzier approach. I thought that the best part of "Eruption" was the middle section dominated by Jan Akkerman's guitar pyrotechnics, and "Answers? Questions!" is done in a similar style. "Anonymous Two," though, borders on being a complete bore. A sequel of sorts to the track "Anonymous" from the debut album, "Two" is essentially twenty-six minutes of each band member taking his turn at soloing. The music isn't horrible or anything in fact, I kind of like the first few minutes of it. I find the cumulative effect to be deadening, though, and I usually check out around the time of the bass solo. It's too bad, because the track is totally inessential: back in 1972, its inclusion on this album was the reason for it being released
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as a double LP, a circumstance that surely must render Focus III one of the most unnecessary double albums ever made. Sequenced between the two long songs is the short "Elspeth of Nottingham," a shaky lute-and-recorder stab at creating a medieval atmosphere that sounds totally out of context with the rest of the album. Matt P.
AIRSCULPTURE - TRANCEATLANTIC (2-CD) AirSculpture, the synth trio from the UK, made their east-coast concert debut in Philadelphia at The Gatherings Concert Series on 17 April 2004. Recordings of this concert, and that of their Star's End live radio concert later that night, were fashioned into the double CD TranceAtlantic and released in Autumn of 2005. Made up of Adrian Beasley, John Christian and Peter Ruczynski, AirSculpture has been using concert spaces to facilitate electronic experimentation since their first live event in September of 1995. Over the years they have found that the atmosphere of the venue, the attention of the audience and several other immeasurable factors, have a significant affect on the interaction between players and acts as a fuel for their performances. The music on TranceAtlantic is structured somewhat differently than on previous CDs. Dwelling more in the realm of Ambient Music, this release is a journey inward to the dark abstractions of the dreaming mind. With this work, AirSculpture explores the fabric of sound, its range of subtleties and the dramatic possibilities of music organized without a tonal center. A lilting piano improvisation opens each disc but soon the mood spirals downward into a shifting timbral plane. Drones build amongst a narrative of humming synthetic sound and constantly transforming tonal color. Set against these sections is the imaginative and engaging sequencer driven patterns AirSculpture is known for. Even here the group pushes beyond their earlier work and into new and unique depths of throbbing pulse, bouncing echoes and spacey beats. The result is a cool combination of inspired play, chance occurrence and the magnification of minute shadings of sound. Chuck van Zyl / Star's End
VIC HENNEGAN - DESERT GOD (CD) Vic Hennegan is known for making electronic dance music, he's previously been in a band (Starsubs) that played desert parties and raves. In contrast to that, on Desert God he's taken a different musical direction with a compilation of atmospheric ambience. This is chilled out music for the morning after the exciting and energetic night before. Desert God makes most sense thematically if one thinks of a desert both metaphorically and literally. The first track (and longest at over twelve minutes) "Gaya" is awash with multi-textured and vocally tinged drones gently rising and falling. The feel of this piece is quite airy such that desolately beautiful vistas are formed in the imagination. Towards the middle of the piece the mood changes as the previous sonics diminish and are joined by repeating dull tinkles. Here we are given an intro to Vic's style of lush brown tones coupled with rhythmic passages which typically incorporate bell like effects. In "Morning Star" warm refrains and synth pads start off a piece which easily conjures up images of walking through a desert in early morning before the day has settled in. Hand beaten drums and Eastern style
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snaking melodies move along unhurriedly like a group of Arabic nomads passing by in the distance. Later into the album it's like we've crossed a desert and reached water's edge in "Ocean Watch" where subdued waves crash in the background while breathy wordless vocals, gentle pads, and a continual clouded bell like refrain conveys a sense of relief. Arguably the best and most interesting track is "I Walk Alone". Throughout this piece soughing pads gradually move from being a melodic to melodic while brittle bell and gong like tones form rapidly chiming structures that are mesmeric and beautifully put together. As the piece progresses breathy vocals also come to the fore. It's one of the most phantasmagoric pieces of music I've heard for some time. The Space For Music label excel at picking up inspiring music that exudes a sense of space whether it be inner space, landscape, or outer space. Desert God fits into the first of those two categories perfectly and gets my vote as a worthy album. Dene Bebbington
ARTEMIY ARTEMIEV & CHRISTOPHER DE LAURENTI - 57 MINUTES TO SILENCE (CD) Artemiy Artemiev is a Russian composer who began studying music at age 4, grew up in the studio of his father, the renowned electronic and film composer Edward Artemiev, and trained at a conservatory as a classical pianist. He lists influences ranging from Vivaldi and Grieg to Ligeti and Pierre Schaeffer, with comparatively more obscure contemporary composers (e.g., Earle Brown, Milton Babbitt, Luigi Nono) thrown in for good measure. Christopher De Laurenti is a Seattle- based composer and critic. From reading De Laurenti's various essays (for example, this one), he has the impassioned, provocative, and uncompromising tone that can only come from someone who has spent a good deal of years, if not his lifetime, dedicated to the pursuit of exploring the meaning and stretching of music and its parameters. Sometimes the pursuit has been pretty hands-on: in November 1999, he actually ventured forth into the midst of the chaos and tear gas of the Seattle WTO riots to obtain field recordings for his work. My hopefully not too obnoxious name-checking aside, I guess my point is that coming from two people who each independently have such an exceptional base of music knowledge and influence, you should expect that at the very least they will come up with something unusual and interesting. The pair delivers with 57 Minutes to Silence. My point of entry to this work was from Artemiev's discography, and when I put this one on I was amazed, for this album flies 180 degrees from the two albums I had heard previously from him, collaborations with Karda Estra (Equilibrium) and Peter Frohmader (Transfiguration). In fact, there's no way in listening to those and then to Silence that you'd have any clue that they involved the same artist. With 57 Minutes to Silence, all the rules get thrown out the window, and any residue of formal musical structure adhered to on the other mentioned collaborations are fully abandoned here. Instead, this experimental offering is an exploration on texture and
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creating a portentous mood as cold and crystalline as the shattered tube and grainy powder found on the front cover. Certain tracks sound as a gush of metallic quicksilver ringing through a tube, such as "A Glimpse," which appears to involve tape manipulation, the grainy "Internal Static Bursts," and "Solar Speech," where reverberating aluminum timbres take on a ghostly, vocal quality. As an aside, I thought I read somewhere that static feedback from solar flares was recorded for one track on this album, and perhaps it's "Solar Speech." The extended "Transmission from the Coalfire" and "Received through the Nebula" represent the fully deep-space-cold tracks. Remember the most desolate moments of the very early Tangerine Dream albums? These tracks have you wandering around the darkest recesses of an abandoned ship, fearful if your eyes are playing tricks on you with those vague shadows you thought you might have seen down the corridor. My favorite track, however, and the one that departs the most from the rest of the album, is the opening "Conlon's Dub." The first time I played this album it was on a cheap, standard FM/CD radio with tiny speakers, and in this context I thought I was listening to a recording of a wheezing factory machine on its last legs. Then, I listened to it more carefully, on a richer stereo system. A big difference. It seems that the track is actually a recording of a tribal dance, ostensibly from some distant African village. The base recording itself is then edited with blurs, shifts, and cuts to create more jarring rhythmic effects, until the overall impression becomes polyrhythmic editing of polyrhythmic drumming. This album something that falls way outside the music of everyday. To be honest, I think that most casual listeners won't get it or have the patience to sit through its 57 minutes. For myself, and I say this as one who usually doesn't get into these kinds of albums that much, it still nonetheless works for me. Just be ready to repeat the mantra "'Music' = Sound." Joe McGlinchey
HAROLD BUDD - SERPENT (IN QUICKSILVER) (CD) Budd followed up his Pavilion of Dreams several years later with The Serpent (in Quicksilver), much smaller in scale and ambition. According to the liner notes, this mini-album, which is less than twenty minutes in length overall, was recorded throughout 1980 and 1981 in at least half a dozen studios in L.A. That works out to an average of just under one studio per three minutes! As a combination of the total track time involved and Budd's sparse compositional style, I find it difficult to report much on this one, except to say that it's best interpreted as a set of brief compositional sketches. "Afar" features pedal steel, an instrument that doesn't often show up in Budd's work, breezing lazily against his delicate piano intrusions. Through this music one envisions isolated desert townships, where the insects don't buzz because they might disturb the silence. The remaining tracks are pretty much standard Budd, with "Children of the Hill" and the gently swaying waltz of the title track being representative. Not really essential, I see this as a step down relative to Pavilion of Dreams. However, as this CD is a 2-fer with his next and very different album Abandoned Cities as part of the package, fans might as
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well go for it anyway should they see it. Joe McGlinchey
ROB PAPEN - DAYDREAMER (CD) I have recently rediscovered the joy of fun upbeat electronic music, and among the best in that category is former Peru member Rob Papen and his excellent album DayDreamer. If like me you began loving this music with the infectious melodic hooks of Jean-Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream from the late 1970s and early 1980s, this will take you back with a smile on your face. The special edition CD cover aptly describes the music as "devoid of any gloom or darkness," sparkling with "optimistic illumination." I scarcely need to add descriptives of my own. "Maranatha song" is bouncy and playful; "Evening song" is a dreamy smooth floater with a slow and steady bass sequence; the title track exudes warmth and brightness. Carefully crafted and happy melodies combine with crisp rhythms to produce music sure to appeal to the sunny side of your disposition. "Sion" is the lightest yet, virtually skipping along with its shuffling bass and beats. The sequencing is superb on this track in particular, though it is strong throughout. "Effata "Be Opened"" treads along the fringes of being overly cute, but alongside other such cheerful offerings it works. The original version of the disc closes with the best track, "Time, Times and Half a Time," with more great sequencing, irresistible rhythms and strong melodic synths. The extended version of DayDreamer includes two excellent bonus tracks, "At Ease" and "Red Clouds." The former is a light atmospheric number, laid back but every bit as affirming as the rest. The latter is a brief textural piece that makes a fitting epilogue to this fun journey into daydreams. Phil Derby / Electroambient Space
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