Sigma is a Finnish electronic music duo that has made music since 1997. Sigma’s music has strong ambient flavor, with an element of experimental electronic music. Live-shows are balanced between improvisational and composed parts creating long ambient soundscapes. Human Trinity is a 100% improvisational piece recorded live in Kanneltalo in 2004.
Sample Logic has released a new sound library, Ambience, Impacts, and Rhythms, (A.I.R.) that focuses on blending three essential building blocks for the composer into one library. Powered by Native Instruments’ Kontakt 2 player, Ambience, Impacts, and Rhythms is available for AU, DXI, RTAS, VST and standalone configurations. The two DVD set contains over 6GB… Read More Sample Logic Intros Ambience, Impacts and Rhythms Sound Library
Shape Your Shade is an unusual but interesting EP from Spies Under Von Magnet Influence. The music is written by Holeg and Von Magnet and arranged, mixed and produced by Spies. The music draws on a variety of influences, ranging from ambient to classical Indian to flamenco. The highlight of the EP is the 8:32… Read More Spies Under Von Magnet Influence – Shape Your Shade
Janosch Moldau recently sent us his latest CD, Redeemer. It’s a very rare example of Christian electronica. With titles like Bleed On, Baptized, My Father & Redeemer, it’s obvious that the music is going to be Christian music. What’s unexpected is the bitcrushed drum sounds, bizarre synth sounds, and original synth orchestration. On Reloved, Moldau… Read More Janoush Moldau – Redeemer
Asura’s latest CD, Lost Eden, blends dance, trance, ambient and world music elements into a musical gumbo. Asura is a French electronic group, made up of producer Charles Farewell, flutist Christopher Maze, and bassist/guitarist Alex Ackerman. There are echoes of artists like Peter Gabriel, Tangerine Dream and Banco de Gaia in Asura’s global groove style.… Read More Asura – Lost Eden
With Continuum, David Wright has released a beautiful work of melodic space music that recalls classic electronic music of the seventies and eighties. Wright creates melodic space music that combines pure ambient sound and more melodic elements. His music draws on the best aspects of ambient, new age and space music. In addition to releasing… Read More David Wright – Continuum
Joey Fehrenbach’s Mellowdrama is a very welcome set of ambient/downtempo tracks. At its best, the CD mixes the beautiful otherworldliness of Brian Eno’s ambient classics with mellow beats, creating a future chill-out classic.
InTRO is the latest CD from Bruno Sanfilippo, an Argentinean composer and musician now living in Barcelona, Spain. Sanfilippo claims the like of Wendy Carlos, Vangelis and Mike Oldfield as influences. The music of Intro, though, is more reflective and ambient than these influences would suggest. Sanfilippo describes the tracks on InTRO as soundscapes. Sanfilippo… Read More Bruno Sanfilippo – Intro
Spotted Peccary Music recently sent us a care package with a variety of their releases, and we’ve been impressed with the consistent quality of their artists and recordings. The latest recording by Dean De Benedictus, Salvaging the Past, is no exception. On this release, Benedictus deftly mixes a wide variety of sounds, ranging from the… Read More Dean de Benedictus – Salvaging the Past
Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces is one of ambient/soundscape artist Steve Roach’s most challenging and imposing releases to date. It is also one of his deepest, and offers new rewards with each listen. This massive four-CD set is one of the most important ambient music releases in years. The set represents Roach’s music at its most… Read More Steve Roach – Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces
