In the Shortlist sections, I will mention some of the albums that I enjoyed listening to, but couldn’t find the time (or the right words) for a “full” review for. Still, I think they deserve your attention: use the links to find more info and hear pre…
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Markus Mehr’s new album “In” is the promising first part of a trilogy: it will be followed by “On” (june 2012) and “Off” (january 2013), so the entire trilogy will take an exact year to complete.
“In” features two long tracks, “Komo” and”Os…
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All audio files have been moved to a new location now. You’ll probably notice a considerable speed increase in downloading the mixes, or in the time it takes to start playing a track included in the review.
From now, you can also receive e-mail notic…
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I am currently migrating the podcast files to another server. Feed subscribers (such as the iTunes podcast may notice some double entries temporarily. Don’t worry, will be fixed soon.
In iTunes, subscribe to http://itunes.apple.com/nl/podcast//i…
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In the Shortlist sections, I will mention some of the albums that I enjoyed listening to, but couldn’t find the time (or the right words) for a “full” review for. Still, I think they deserve your attention: use the links to find more info and hear pre…
Categories: reviews, ambient music
“Nothing but a Grand Piano. No Synths, drones, pan pipes or tubular bells. I think it’s quite different. The music is very gentle, slow and quiet, more about the space between the notes than the notes themselves.”
Jeremy de Tolly ’s introduct…
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If you are familiar with the works of Harold Budd together with Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) on earlier classics like Lovely Thunder, The Moon and the Melodies, The White Arcades and Before the Night Falls/After the Day Breaks…
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“Stillness” image by imago2007
This mix obviously found its name from the lovely intro (and outtro) track by Nest. Inbetween, there are many moments of ‘stillness’, too… Moments you may slowly drift off into the drones, letting your mind wa…
Categories: ambient music, mixes / podcasts, exclusives
In the Shortlist sections, I will mention some of the albums that I enjoyed listening to, but couldn’t find the time (or the right words) for a “full” review for. Still, I think they deserve your attention: use the links to find more info and hear pre…
Categories: reviews, ambient music
Matthew Florianz is one of the dutch artists I have been following for a lot of years now – together with fellow experimenters like Rutger ‘Machinefabriek’ Zuydervelt, the ‘Piiptsjilling’ (Kleefstra) brothers and Michel Banabila. It’…
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Okay: Christmas and New Year’s Holiday are rapidly approaching – you’ve probably already had your share of the End-Of-Year Top 2000 lists (full of unsurprisingly position shifts of headliners like The Eagles and Queen) - Your ”L…
Categories: ambient music, reviews, other music
Sometimes an album comes along that is difficult to define, because it doesn’t seem to conform to what may be considered as a single ‘style’ or a ‘genre’. Albums like that usually take a few extra listens to definitely make up your mind, but they p…
Categories: other music, reviews
In the Shortlist sections, I will mention some of the albums that I enjoyed listening to, but couldn’t find the time (or the right words) for a “full” review for. Still, I think they deserve your attention: use the links to find more info and hear pre…
Categories: ambient music, reviews
To some, waves on the shore, leaves from a tree, flames in a fire all look the same. Others can stare at this fractal beauty and find Zen-like peacefulness in the fact that this ‘sameness’ is just an illusion, because every single detail …
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Although ‘outsiders’ may think otherwise, ‘ambient’ music knows a lot of different musical variations. Referring to ambient music as one single genre is a bit like using ‘world music’ as a genre definition for all kinds of different ethnic music.&n…
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“Deislieper” is the third release in what I like to call the “Kleefstra Wire Trilogy”. In fact, there’s no real ‘trilogy’, but three separate albums that were presented by three independent labels on one single advertising page in Wire Magazine: “W…
Categories: other music, reviews, ambient music
There is, has been and will always be, a lot of debate about what “ambient” music is. Whatever you think of that, the word definitely has ambience in it, so the music will probably have something to do with the atmosphere of your surroundings….
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“The Endless Now” is Wouter Veldhuis’ second full release, the follow up to his 2008 release “Satumaa” (which is available as a recommended free download from Bandcamp, by the way!).
These two albums match each other very well, bo…
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(Photo by Lisa Fanucchi)
In the Northern Hemisphere, the November month is the month of Autumn: the month that summer is definitely over, when cold and darkness slowly creeps in. (In the Southern Hemisphere, November is a month of Spring – wh…
Categories: exclusives, mixes / podcasts, ambient music
However deep and fascinating ‘classic’ (drone) ambient music may be, listening too much of the same kind can get a little eh… same-ish. The borders and boundaries need to be stretched in some ways, and that’s where the adventurous music…
Categories: reviews, ambient music