Three New Concert Performances From Synthesist Robert Rich

Digital Music store Fake Science has released three live concert performances by synthesist Robert Rich. The MP3 downloads are sets recorded at concerts in San Francisco. Rich is one of the pioneers of ambient music. His music has a unique sound that combines home-made acoustic and electronic instruments, microtonal tunings, computer-based signal processing, chaotic systems… Read More Three New Concert Performances From Synthesist Robert Rich

April 18, 2007Leave a comment

Robert Rich Announces New DVD, Atlas Dei

Ambient synth artist Robert Rich has announced Atlas Dei, a feature-length DVD of high resolution motion graphics by Daniel Colvin. The video is presented in panoramic 3:1 aspect ratio, with letterbox. It features 90 minutes of 5 channel surround mixes by Rich. “Atlas Dei is currently in the final phase of preparation before manufacturing,” says… Read More Robert Rich Announces New DVD, Atlas Dei

April 11, 2007April 12, 2007Leave a comment

Free Ambient Music From Cinema Du Lyon

It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia. All month, we’re looking outside the mainstream music industry and highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet. Cinema Du Lyon is podcast project that features experimental ambient soundscapes in podcast and video podcast form. Here’s their description: Cinema du Lyon are not from Lyon… Read More Free Ambient Music From Cinema Du Lyon

March 27, 2007March 28, 2007Leave a comment

Free Ambient Music From Kernel32

March 12: It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia. Every day this month, we’re looking outside the mainstream music industry and highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet. Little Things Count is a free CD of minimal ambient electronica by Kernel32. It’s released on OpenLab Records, a label that releases music… Read More Free Ambient Music From Kernel32

March 12, 2007March 28, 2007Leave a comment

New CD A Modular Synth-fest

UK electronic label DIN has released a new CD by Parallel Worlds, the main project for the Greek musician Bakis Sirros. Obsessive Surrealism (DiN26) is his fourth album, having previously released Existence in 2003, Insight in 2004 and Far Away Light in 2005. He has also had tracks included on several compilation releases. Bakis is… Read More New CD A Modular Synth-fest

March 11, 2007March 11, 2007Leave a comment

Free Ambient Music

March 11: It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia. All month long, we’re going to help you kick the RIAA habit by highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet. Archaic Horizon Records is a cool label focused on the experimental and eclectic. It releases music under the Creative Commons license, which… Read More Free Ambient Music

March 11, 2007March 18, 2007Leave a comment

Free Ambient Electronica From Erik Wøllo

March 07: It’s free electronic music month at Synthtopia. Every day this month, we’re looking outside the mainstream music industry and highlighting great electronic music that’s available for free on the Internet. Erik Wøllo is a guitarist, synthesist and composer originally from Hemsedal, Norway. He has composed and performed music for films, theatre, ballets and… Read More Free Ambient Electronica From Erik Wøllo

March 7, 2007March 7, 20072 Comments

Erik Wøllo – Elevations

Elevations, the latest release on the Spotted Peccary label by Erik Wøllo, is a chilled collection of ambient electronica. Wøllo is a guitarist, synthesist and composer. His music on Elevations features atmospheric guitar placed in ambient or downtempo electronic contexts. His guitar style brings to mind the work of Terje Rypdal and Robert Rich –… Read More Erik Wøllo – Elevations

March 7, 2007March 7, 2007Leave a comment

Free Ambient EP From Solipsism

Ambient sound artists Solipsism (Craig Murphy & Ed Drury) have release a free EP, inventively title Free EP. Craig and Ed’s new album Electricity Flows In Squares is scheduled for release in Springtime 2007 and this will be their last purely electronic work for a while as the duo now venture into the murky fusion… Read More Free Ambient EP From Solipsism

February 28, 2007Leave a comment

Craig Padilla – The Light In The Shadow

Craig Padilla’s The Light In The Shadow, a recent release on Spotted Peccary, is a gorgeous ambient CD that features one long-form track, the title piece. The Light In The Shadow has the floating, blissful quality of classic ambient/new age work of early Steve Roach, Michael Stearns or Kevin Braheny. The music bathes you in… Read More Craig Padilla – The Light In The Shadow

February 7, 2007February 7, 2007Leave a comment