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SPECIAL
BIG NEWS OF THE MONTH
The first issue of the new
hard copy magazine covering EM and ambient music,
E-dition, is coming in February. Go
here to subscribe or
for more info. This two-language venture (Dutch and English
versions will be published) is headed up by the fine folks
at Groove
(Kees Aerts and Ron Boots) as well as people from the now
defunct KLEMzine. SHOW YOUR SUPPORT! There are too
few magazines out there covering these genres.
NEW AND UPCOMING RELEASE INFO
(note:
CD info comes from
mailing lists and press releases; descriptive comments below
are not from a Wind and Wire reviewer, unless
specifically annotated as such)
- Kwook - Unidentified
Feathered Object: Kwook (from Australia) was on the
first Databloem compilation, this is his first full
length album for dataObscura. Inspired by Terry Riley and
Autechre. The music is a flowing mix of delicate melodic
elements served over a bed of space. Samples can be heard
on the Databloem site: http://www.databloem.com/0_kwook.htm
- Ambient artist Thom
Brennan announces: "New Raingarden Music label is up and
running on line. The first releases are posted. These
consist of the former mp3.com titles. Upcoming by March,
a new album Silver. You can preview excerpts at
http://www.thombrennan.com
, and follow the link to "Silver Excerpts." I have posted
to the website a new sign up box for the new Raingarden
Music News list.
- Here's the latest news
from ambient artist IXOHOXI: "I have been communicating
with Numina recently and we will soon begin work on
Starfarer's Tales Volume II . Although this is a
year later than we originally planned, mostly due to
other commitments and musical projects, we are excited
with what we have put together so far as some basic
starting points. If you want to listen to Volume I
you can go to the IXOHOXI music store at http://store.mixonic.com/ixohoxi
and listen to sample tracks. They are streaming at 64kbps
to save bandwidth but it gives you a good idea of what
Volume I is like. Numina and I hope Volume
II will be an adventurous extension of that style of
atmospheric space-music, and longer (hopefully 70
minutes).
I am currently mastering
Micronicom. More info on that release soon.
The IXOHOXI store at the
above URL is slowly being updated with my back catalog,
one CD at a time. The new CD store produces a nicer
product, both in sonic quality and package design, than
the older MP3 site. 9 titles are available including
SF Tales I with Numina, and the Yoga
Soundscapes two CD set. More will be added over the
next month or two.
- Ultra-prolific
Brannan
Lane has new
project coming out with Amir Baghiri: "The first CD,
Lucid Circles, will be a very deep and silent
ambient work. A series of collaboration CDs are planned
between these artists.Amir Baghiri - Additive fm and
analog synthesizers, sequencers, various handplayed
percussion, neys, powerslide, processed nature sounds,
distant voices, guitars. Brannan Lane - Digital and
analog synthesizers, acoustic and sampled percussion,
sequencers, treatments
- Aidan Baker -
Threnody I : Lamentation (NULLL017). The first
release in a series of three, this is ambient/drone
entirely created by electric guitar. This full-length
album features one long organic, mesmerising, dark yet
beautifull ambient soundscape. A flight over alien
landscapes, through dense mists on the waves or calming
guitar-drones. Very addictive music...More
info:http://nulll.darkwood.com
- Jason Sloan's latest CD:
"WINTERWOMB CD TO BE RELEASED DECEMBER 8, 2003
winterwomb is being quietly released on the heels
of jason's successful mid 2003 CD, still.
Winterwomb is a live CD which presents three shows
from 2002 and 2003. the first track, recorded last
december at baltimore's bottom floor, features the entire
25minute set. the second track is a 30 minute excerpt
from jason's 65min radio concert on WXPN's star's end
this past august. the disc closes out with an
experimental live performance from this past november
broadcast live via the internet. this disc is unique as
it is the first CD to feature jason's layered & dence
live performance sound. still very ambient by nature,
these live sets also bring lots of grit and texture into
the smear of sound jason has become known for.
winterwomb is presented in a unique .25" thick, 5"
x 7.5" clear plastic housing with vellum sleeve. This CD
is available only over at http://www.jasonsloan.org"
ARTISTS:
Please email
me
with album titles and info if you want your latest release
mentioned in this column.
Chillfactor10 records is
a new ambient / electronica label based in the UK, featuring
the ambient work of Igneous Flame and Darkness within
Darkness. There are mp3 samples from their albums on the
label's
site.'
A new venture from Cameron Akhunaton (of Spiralight Records)
offers downloadable music. Here's the scoop: "Ambient.us
download shop is now open. Download albums from our growing
ambient music catalog. Listen to sound clips of every song
before you buy. With your high speed Internet connection,
download the music encoded in highest quality variable bit
rate MP3 plus full color artwork. Get current, out of print
and exclusive releases from ambient artists and labels
delivered to you anywhere in the world without the cost of
shipping and at an affordable price. Visit http://www.ambient.us/shop
"
Ultimae Records, an excellent
(per Bill Binkelman, who will be reviewing three of their
recordings soon) ambient and electronica label based in
France, is on the lookout for music. A recent email to an
ambient list reads as follows:
"Dear all,
I am working on a
compilation project to be released this year. I wish to
dedicate this journey to people who see from within, with
all their senses, not their open eyes. The style is
atmospheric and floating, very little beat if any. Neither
too sweet nor too dark. Tracks can be sent for my attention
to the address below until beginning of April.
Feel free to contact me by
email if you want to discuss this project.
You may already know us for
our downtempo compilation and various ambient albums. For
the first time we shall walk the atmospheric
path.
Kind regards and best
wishes,
Sunbeam (aka
Mahiane)
- U l t i m a e R e c o r
d s
- P a n o r a m i c m u s
i c f o r p a n o r a m i c p e o p l e
- 6, rue Mazard - 69002
Lyon - France
- phone / fax : 00 33 (0)4
72 40 99 57
- http:www.ultimae.com
- sunbeam@ultimae.com
The ambient label
Parasomnic
Records has
announced "Manifold Records is now carrying Somniloquies,
Vol. 1 and Describing Paranoia among their
extensive catalog of excellent ambient, experimental, tribal
and avant-garde music."
A reminder that an excellent ambient and EM website has
re-opened. It's Electronic Shadows, run by Glenn Folkvord.
Here's what he has to say: "I havent really mentioned it
here yet, but my electronic music website www.electronicshadows.com
is now online again, since last month [November,
ed.] in fact. Some of you will remember it from the
first round a couple of years ago, and the site has now been
redesigned and enhanced but with the usual news, views and
interviews about electronic and ambient music.
Fans of the long-running nationally syndicated radio show
Musical Starstreams will be thrilled to read
this:
- For Immediate
Release
- 15 December
2003
- Attention Radio &
Records Industry
Musical Starstreams to
afternoon drive, daily on XM Satellite Radio Long running
program of exotic electronica moves to XM103
AudioVisions
La Jolla, CA -- Musical
Starstreams, the over twenty-two year running syndicated
radio program and full-time format of ethereal, spacey,
futuristic, progressive, ambient, worldly, dubby, trip hop,
acid jazz, downtempo, euro chillout music (simply labeled
"exotic electronica") moves from XM82 to afternoon drive
time 4-6pm eastern, seven days per week, on XM103 satellite
radio, beginning December 15, 2003.
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