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We recently received a package of CDs from the Spotted Peccary label that included a collection of great ambient and new age music. One of these CDs was Craig Padilla’s Genesis, a gorgeous set of ambient space music.
If you’re familiar with American ambient classics like Michael Stearn’s Planetary Unfolding or Kevin Braheny’s The Way Home, [...]

 

Alpha Wave Movement’s latest CD, A Distant Signal, is a great collection of tracks in the tradition of classic space music.
Alpha Wave Movement is one of the recording guises of Gregory Kyryluk, who also records as ambient/world music as Open Canvas, and as part of the synth group Thought Guild. Alpha Wave Movement represents his [...]

 

Hearts of Space, the pioneering public radio syndicastor, has opened what they are calling a “next generation Internet music service”. The service builds on the success of the original service launched in 2001, providing deep content within the HOS niche of contemplative and ambient music.
The Hearts of Space radio program has been syndicated to over [...]

 

Kitaro

12Sep04

For over nearly thirty years, the electronic music of Kitano has cast its spell on listeners around the world. As a composer and multi-instrumentalist, Kitaro has reached millions of people on every continent with his recordings.
Kitaro’s music is a reflection of his reverence for nature and for the world as humanity’s natural habitat. “Nature inspires [...]

 

The Berlin school of electronic music lives on….in Poland!
The latest CD from E=Motion showcases the interlocking sequences originally made popular by artists like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. While the Berlin style originated years ago, E=Motion keeps it relevant with new sounds and by incorporating elements of trance and other more recent styles.

 

Brannan Lane

12Jul04

Brannan Lane is a multi-talented musician, composer and sound designer who has recorded extensively and taken his style of chilled ambient music around the world.
Lane has a number of solo releases and has collaborated extensively with Ashera, Amir Baghiri, Robert Carty, Vidna Obmana, Biff Johnson, Zero Ohms, Jason Sloan, and Matt Borghi.
Lane has been featured [...]

 

This release captures ambient space music improvisations from a 1985 concert by Robert Rich. The eight tracks showcase a variety of ambient environments that explore different moods and sound, while also blending together into a 73 minute soundworld.
Inner Landscapes was recorded live at one of Rich’s long improvised concerts. This concert was about three-hours long, [...]

 

This 1992 release is complex ambient music at its best. The music has a mystery and edge about it, even a little uneasiness. The double-cd collection of dark ambient music is one of the finest works Roach has released, and is a classic piece of ambient electronic music. 
The cover of World’s Edge shows lightning striking [...]