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Terraform in the rack! "Dynamic Stillness", the latest from Steve Roach (I think). Mathias Grassow "Calibration" transcends perfection!
SoupcanSam said:Steve Roach and Loren Nerell - 'Terraform'
A Produce is one of the best trance ambient artists ever to exist. I have all his CDS, and try to play them regularly! "Reflect like a mirror, respond like an echo" the guy is very spiritual and produces gem after gem, jewel embedded in crystal, t...
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- At 7:38am on May 20, 2009,
SoupcanSam said…
- I am planning on going to the Movement festival in Detroit and checking it out; it is sort of my once a year jaunt into the techno arena without having to totally submerge myself in the culture.
- At 9:15pm on January 27, 2009,
AlephNull said… - Thank you my friend and my Frater....I have not been on atmoworks as much as I would like to have been this last month...I caught a deadly virius that I am barely recovered from called "facebook"....only my synthesizers saved me from the bottomless pit of applications...pokes and pets!!
- At 8:28pm on January 16, 2009,
AlephNull said…
- Clearly put .....like the simple Samadhi we all reach for and was always here....
- At 12:54pm on January 16, 2009,
AlephNull said…
- So do we try and capture that golden Eagle? Simply.. our work is snap shots of it's mysterious flight."He who binds himself a joy...does the winged life destroy...but he who...kisses the joy as it flies...lives in eternity's sunrise" William Blake....Just trying to learn to kiss my self now...I'll kiss ya all real soon!
- At 7:10am on October 21, 2008,
Disturbed Earth said… - Hey Rhys,
Great to hear from you again. I'm glad you hooked up with Rudy he's a great guy amongst other fine people who have found a place to stay at AtmoWorks. I'm now in Melbourne, Australia at the moment. I briefly touched down in Auckland, New Zealand and had to surrender my hair gel of all things he he he. I love it.
I'm glad you are back around the traps.
Take it easy
Dean
Disturbed Earth
- At 2:42pm on October 20, 2008,
Ensueno said… - Rhys,if you still on-line check out this link myspace.com/ensuenosubspace
there's my new page.On recent picture place where I am
cheers friend
Rudy
- At 2:29pm on October 20, 2008,
Ensueno said…
- Hi Rhys,glad you're here.
How are you doing?
- At 4:58am on August 18, 2008,
Ensueno said…
- Hi Rhys,thank you for the great comment.
Im just trying play silence too
Vsego Dobrogo
many cheers from the Urals
Rudy
- At 8:32pm on August 14, 2008,
Disturbed Earth said…
- Hi Rhys,
Thanks for your continued support of the music of Disturbed Earth and the other artists that lurk about in the hallowed halls of AtmoWorks.
This is such a fantastic place to talk about things.
Your friend
Dean
Disturbed Earth
- At 8:03am on August 9, 2008,
Kasper said… - Thanks for the heads up on Thom Brennan's latest! Just had a listen to the samples at CDBaby and boy, that album sounds absolutely gorgeous! Apsaras is wonderful. Shortly after buying that album I went to India, and as you can imagine Apsaras was a perfect companion to the mystic nature of that place.
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- About Me:
- Ancient, young, moon-faced Buddha, sun-faced Buddha, wide range of music obsession though haven't mastered a single instrument except a badly-tuned voice.
When not listening to human-induced music I am often in the forests and mountains listening to or recording the music of birds (I am an ornithologist and bat ecologist by profession).
- Best album(s) of all time?
- Astral Weeks (Van Morrison)
Veedon Fleece (Van Morrison)
No Guru, no method, no teacher (Van Morrison)
The Freewheeling Bob Dylan (and heaps of others from Dylan's early period)
The Notorious Byrd Brothers (The Byrds)
The Velvet Underground
Surrealistic Pillow (Jefferson Airplane)
After bathing at Baxter's (Jefferson Airplane)
Dark side of the moon (Pink Floyd)
Wish you were here (Pink Floyd)
The Wall (Pink Floyd)
The man who sold the world (David Bowie)
Aladdin Sane (David Bowie)
Unknown Pleasures (Joy Division)
Closer (Joy Division)
Faith (The Cure)
Heaven up here (Echo and the Bunnymen)
Ocean Rain (Echo and the Bunnymen)
Meat is murder (The Smiths)
Spirit of Eden (Talk Talk)
Laughing Stock (Talk Talk)
Mamouna (Bryan Ferry)
Brilliant Trees (David Sylvian)
Gone to Earth (David Sylvian)
Secrets of the Beehive (David Sylvian)
Dead bees on a cake (David Sylvian)
Rain Tree Crow
Toward the within (Dead Can Dance)
Filigree and shadow (This Mortal Coil)
The River (Bruce Springsteen)
Nebraska (Bruce Springsteen)
OK Computer (Radiohead) Yes! One of the best albums of all time
Ten songs for another world (The world of Skin)
Viva Last blues (Palace Music)
Arise therefore (Palace Music)
Black/rich music (Will Oldham) (I own about 30 CDs of this artist A.K.A Bonnie prince Billy including some signed ones)
Heartbreaker (Ryan Adams)
The God Perfume II (Al Gromer Khan)
Space Hotel (Al Gromer Khan)
Kamasutra Experience (Al Gromer Khan)
Almond Blossom day (Al Gromer Khan) (Desert Island music No. 1)
Behind Eleven Deserts (Stephan Micus)
Towards the wind (Stephan Micus)
Desert Poems (Stephan Micus)
Nada Himalaya (1 and 2) (Deuter) (Desert Island music No. 2 and 3)
Dorje Ling (David Parsons) (Desert Island music No. 4)
Afterglow (Hoppe, Tillmann, Wheater) (The Desert Island has just got very big)
Dark Wood (David darling)
The Healing Lake, Moonwater (and everything else by Rudy Adrian)
Frontier (Robert Scott Thompson)
The Pearl (Budd, Eno)
The White Arcades, Lovely Thunder, Luxa (Harold Budd)
Sacred Site, Lost World (Michael Stearns)
Mist, Secret Faith of salamanders, shimmer, vibrant water (and everything else by Thom Brennan) (The Desert Island has just sunk)
Dust to Dust, Arc of passion (and many others by Steve Roach)
Cobalt 144, Ambient Selections and Colour Glow etc from Ashera (sorry I forgot Stuart)
White sands, Black sands, Inscape and Landscape etc (hurry up and produce some more Mr A. Produce)
Dreamers at the edge of decaying light, Aenian Glow etc from Vir Unis
Sanctuary of dreams (Numina)
Twilight of Perception etc (Vidna Obmana)
El Hadra (Klaus Wiese and Mathias Grassow)
Divine orbit (Klaus Wiese)
- Favorite artist(s)?
- I danced so frenetically to Will Oldham (A.K.A. Bonnie Prince Billy) recently that I almost turned into a cripple, and reached a state of spiritual bliss from a performance by the Irish band the Frames, whose violinist, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, deserves a special place in the hall of gods. By far the best concert I have ever experienced was Pink Floyd in Auckland a decade or more ago, and this was after Roger Waters left the band! Other times I chill out to the perfection of sitar master Al Gromer Khan's Paisley Music or a thousand other artists of the atmos ambient. Thank you all musician readers who have blessed me with your amazing art! Here are some of my top performers:
Van Morrison, The Byrds, Early Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Tim Buckley, Grace Slick, Jefferson Airplane, Jim Morrison, The Doors, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Joy Division, The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance, Bruce Cockburn, Cowboy Junkies, David Sylvian, Mark Hollis and Talk Talk, Palace, Will Oldham, Bonnie Prince Billy, Ryan Adams, Jeffrey Foucault, Glen Hansard (and the Frames), U2, Radiohead, Josh Ritter, Greg Brown.
Ambient, atmosphere, spiritual, techno artists:
Al Gromer Khan, Stephan Micus, Thom Brennan, David Parsons, Rudy Adrian, Deuter, David Darling, Robert Scott Thompson, Harold Budd, Steve Roach, Michael Stearns
Ashera (thanks for reminding me friends), A. Produce, Vir Unis, Numina, Ashera, Brian Eno, Klaus Wiese, Tuu, Vidna Obmana
Thank you all!
- Are you a musician? What instrument do you play? Type of music?
- No, but when you have heard the call of a kokako you can understand the silence, the beauty of the silence between the notes. I can almost play silence!
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Defining ambient music through the decades
I might ponder on this subject over the New Zealand summer when I am largely in the forests and mountains working for a living (or living for a working). I suspect there have been major developments in ambient and related music over the past decades and maybe there is a way to put some chronological perspective on it all. A mere precis, a rudimentary collage for the bigger picture that will never be completed.
Someone came in the other day trying to sell me a house but we talked mainly about mu… Continue
Someone came in the other day trying to sell me a house but we talked mainly about mu… Continue
Posted on August 7, 2008 at 6:07pm — 10 Comments
Li Po
They ask me where’s the sense
On jasper mountains?
I laugh and don’t reply
In heart’s own quiet.
Peach petals float their streams
Away in secret
To other skies and earths
Than those of mortals.
On jasper mountains?
I laugh and don’t reply
In heart’s own quiet.
Peach petals float their streams
Away in secret
To other skies and earths
Than those of mortals.
Posted on July 27, 2008 at 2:12am —
Klaus Wiese
Klaus Wiese is perhaps a little-known musician who produces a very large number of minimalist atmospheric drone works and occasionally Tibetan singing bowls. He is a former member of Popol Vuh who has since collaborated with Al Gromer Khan, Mathias Grassow and Jim Cole.
One can quite easily get hypnotized on Klaus’s music as it is a kind of drone that innovates inner levels of peace and harmony. His collaboration with Al Gromer Khan on “The Alchemy of Happiness” and with Mathias Grassow on “ El… Continue
One can quite easily get hypnotized on Klaus’s music as it is a kind of drone that innovates inner levels of peace and harmony. His collaboration with Al Gromer Khan on “The Alchemy of Happiness” and with Mathias Grassow on “ El… Continue
Posted on July 27, 2008 at 1:53am —
Review of “holding on letting go” Peter James
This CD is a work of profound art, cleverly taking the listener through differing phases of light and dark, from moments familiar and warm to moments grappling with life above the abyss.
At the beginning, gentleness pervades, but this may simply be the awakening into a new day where thoughts and dramas have not yet come to light, where stones are still translucent in a slumbering brook.
In the first three tracks “aurora”, “in the face of loss” and “this final wish”, and then later “adrift” the… Continue
At the beginning, gentleness pervades, but this may simply be the awakening into a new day where thoughts and dramas have not yet come to light, where stones are still translucent in a slumbering brook.
In the first three tracks “aurora”, “in the face of loss” and “this final wish”, and then later “adrift” the… Continue
Posted on July 24, 2008 at 4:20am —
Dreamswept dreamscape. Disturbed Earth
“Dreamswept” by Disturbed Earth is a masterpiece, unbelievably peaceful, mellow textures layered on velvet carpets, in a way reminiscent of Thom Brennan or Steve Roach on Magnificent Void, Highly recommended!!
Posted on July 18, 2008 at 6:31am — 4 Comments
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