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Ten beautifully tranquil new age albums
Ah, New Age, ambient’s shunned cousin kept locked up in the attic, well away from the cool kids. Well, it was shunned at one point, anyway. Visions abounded of people in capes dancing to pan flutes on...
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Starlit and Bible Black: DAVID CROSS and ROBERT FRIPP’s Starless Starlight...
by Allister Thompson If you are a proghead, there’s no doubt you are very well familiar with King Crimson’s classic 1974 album, Red. This very unusual album is dark, heavy, sorrowful and beautiful,...
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ALTUS – The Time Collection (2015)
review by Richard Gürtler Acclaimed Ottawa, Canada-based ambient drifter Mike Carss, acting under his moniker Altus, was always known as an artist who focused on digital formats only and offered them...
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ASCENDANT –Æthereal Code (2015) The genuine mystic trance
Ascendant is an ambient superduo of sorts, comprised of Chris Bryant (Signs of Life) and Don Tyler (Phase47, and Make Your Own Taste’s best ambient album of 2014, Amytis Rising by Fire Temple, his duo...
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The Essential ROBERT RICH
by Allister Thompson I did a post quite a while back on some essential Steve Roach albums, which has proven popular in introducing some of his intimidatingly large back catalogue to new listenership....
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NEW Gateless Gate releases: Ancient Ocean and Ancient Metals
The Gateless Gate is my krautambient project, and I’ve released in fairly quick succession two radically different albums. Over the winter, I collaborated with American Scott Lawlor, who is well-known...
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KHAN TENGRI – Aeons (2016)
This album is actually a recent release by yours truly, outside of my usual Gateless Gate banner. The reasons are that there are actual songs to be found here, and the music is more aggressively...
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