Rhys's Blog (5)

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

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. Continue

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

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

“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!! Continue