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	Seren Ffordd & Oophoi - The Martian Chronicles (Hypnos section) (Price: $12.99) The Martian Chronicles, inspired by Ray Bradbury's story collection of the same name, sounds very much like the soundtrack to a mysterious and strange science fiction film that exists only in the imaginations of Seren Ffordd and Oöphoi. These seven tracks, while slow, moody and at times weirdly alien, also evoke a drama and emotional depth absent from much recent ambient music. It's a complex and beautiful mixture of electronic instruments, field recordings and percussion. These artists will both likely be familiar to Hypnos listeners. Seren Ffordd has released several albums on our Hypnos Secret Sound imprint, and also contributed to the Hypnos compilation Sounds of a Universe Overheard. The name Seren Ffordd (real name Andy Benford) is Welsh for Star Road, Way of Stars or Milky Way. Oöphoi himself released Athlit in 2002, Distance to Zero (with Paul Vnuk) in 2006, and his Nebulae group project album Path of White Clouds in 2011, all on Hypnos. Gianluigi Gasparetti, the man behind Oöphoi, first became known for creating the excellent Italian music periodical Deep Listenings. His Oöphoi persona burst onto the ambient music scene in the late 1990s and quickly became one of the most talented and prolific sound artists around. He founded the now-defunct labels Umbra and Penumbra, which released the earliest recordings of Seren Ffordd. After working together in this capacity for several years The Martian Chronicles is their first collaboration, but not their last; the pair has already completed another full album worth of material. Track listing, with mp3 sample clips: 01 > The Long Years > 14:38 MP3 clip 02 > Dead Cities > 15:03 MP3 clip 03 > Blue Fire > 13:19 MP3 clip 04 > End of a Changeling > 02:49 MP3 clip 05 > Canals > 08:11 MP3 clip 06 > Flamebirds Waiting for the Storm > 10:06 MP3 clip 07 > Unremembered > 09:56 MP3 clip... (more/buy)
	Zero Ohms –Worlds, Afterworlds (cdr) (Relaxed Machinery category) (Price: $9.99 cdr) "We constantly stand on a precipice of the unknown without the possibility of reversing. This seemingly unknowable void looms, beckoning. And flight is the only, albeit inadequate, response." - Zero Ohms, 22 Dec 2010 Streaming samples including track listing: 1. Translation 28:12 2. This Beautiful Now 17:33 3. Peace of the Pi 10:11 4. Mournful Light of a Gibbous Moon 7:36 5. I Become the Emptiness Through Which the Axle Turns 7:15 ... (more/buy)
	Chris Russell - Home (2cdr) (Relaxed Machinery category) (Price: $19.99 2-cdr) Track List: Disc 1 1. Welcome 7:32 2. Comfort 7:04 streaming sample 3. Solace 9:58 4. Repose 8:53 5. Glimmer 4:24 6. Thursday 5:15 7. Lull 7:12 8. February 5:34 Disc 2 1. Ethereal 9:25 2. Horizon 7:15 3. Dusk 7:09 4. Gloaming 5:12 5. Monday 6:30 6. Eventide 8:27 7. Specter 6:30 8. Together Again 7:16 streaming sample... (more/buy)
	Lowell Levene-Sims - A thing of Beauty (cdr) (Relaxed Machinery category) (Price: $9.99 cdr) "A Thing of Beauty to an Object of Regret" is the follow up to the 2005 solo bass release "...from the bitter winter"... a critical and independent success. From being a front page feature on CD Baby.com - winning acclaim as a superlatively inventive minimalist basswork and selling over 10,000 copies through touring and minimal online outlets. Track List: 1. Aerial Momentum 3:53 2. This is Not a Warning 6:39 3. Fear Creates Danger,Courage Dispels It 5:19 4. Transmigration 17:21 5. Perseverance 3:15 6. Coil 5:04 7. So Good to Have Known You 4:08 8. At Rest Beneath the Sand 10:39 9. Disengage 5:19... (more/buy)
	A Produce & Loren Nerell - Intangible (Hypnos section) (Price: $12.99) 2011. The first collaboration between two artists well-known to Hypnos listeners and fans of ambient & experimental music in general. While Intangible has a meditative and tranquil drifting quality, it also incorporates more melodic and rhythmic elements than most ambient music of the present day. Listeners who like their ambience musical will enjoy this as much as those who like their drones deep and mystical. Though it's the duo's first collaboration together, both of them have been releasing music for about a quarter century. These guys are responsible for some of our "Desert Island Disc" listening material here at Hypnos HQ (A Smooth Surface and Lilin Dewa are both long-time favorites). Often at Hypnos we try to introduce new, fresh talent to our listeners, but this is a case of two music-makers who know all the tricks, and yet continue to create work as vibrant and inspired as anything on the cutting edge. A Produce has released ten albums, including two on Hypnos (Smile on the Void solo, and Altara in collaboration with Hypnos founder M. Griffin). Loren Nerell has released solo work on Amplexus, Soleilmoon, and Side Effects, and collaborated with ambient music giant Steve Roach on Terraform in 2006. Track listing with MP3 clips: 01 - Intangible - 08:14 - MP3 clip 02 - Planet Atmo - 13:09 - MP3 clip 03 - String Theory - 03:54 - MP3 clip 04 - Area 51.1 - 07:02 - MP3 clip 05 - Lost in Transformation - 09:26 - MP3 clip 06 - Meadow Dusk - 06:11 - MP3 clip 07 - Pot Covers at Dawn - 06:39 - MP3 clip (more/buy)
	Max Corbacho - Lost Links (cdr) (Relaxed Machinery category) (Price: $9.99 cdr) First release by Max Corbacho, co-founder of the AD21 label and well-established European ambient music practitioner. Deleted, unreleased and forgotten tracks. All these pieces were created to appear on previously published albums. For various reasons, they were not included, and remained in my archives. I usually do not delete any of my pieces; I know that, at some point, simply because of the passing of time, they acquire a special character, and their time to be revealed appears. Track List: (mp3 sample medley) 1. Earthflow Trance 7:19 2. Sky Resonance 6:07 3. Third Exposure 5:41 4. One True Light 16:12 5. Mandala 12:33 6. After Dream 5:54 7. Slow Thunder 13:15 Total Time: 67:01... (more/buy)
	Disturbed Earth / Steve Brand - What is Memory? (cdr) (Relaxed Machinery category) (Price: $9.99 cdr) 69 minute extended track -- mp3 sample clip collage Notes by Steve Brand: What Is Memory? is a 69-minute aural exploration by Dean Richards/Disturbed Earth (Australia) and myself, Steve Brand (U.S.) of the nature of memory and time, utilizing keyboard atmospheres, flutes and voice. The impetus for this piece was born out of personal phone conversations between Dean and myself. We both have experienced how time can transform memory, how memories can become distorted, built-up into almost legendary proportions, clouded with sentiment. We also know that looking back into memories, with a clearer mind in the present, can transmute once-painful memories into those which empower and propel us into a new future. Review by Eyes Cast Down: "What is Memory? is the fifth collaboration between Disturbed Earth (Dean Richards) and Steve Brand, following a trilogy (Broken Gold, Busy With Dreams and The Rest of Time) and followup album (The First Day Unnamed) on AtmoWorks in 2008-09. For reviewing purposes, I listened closely, but I’m sure this will make an awesome background soundworld as well (though good luck keeping it in the background). It is a delightful, magical journey. An important aspect, well worth pointing out, is that the pacing is masterfully managed throughout. Our guide is thoroughly experienced, inspiring our full confidence, keeping our impatience in check. As is usual when trying to convey the magic of music by either of these artists, words are sadly inadequate. One can only encourage listeners, trusting that when they hear the music, all will be understood, words notwithstanding. I simply love this album, and if you’re even a casual listener of ambient music, I believe you will too... Highly recommended!" ... (more/buy)
	Saul Stokes - Sleek Nucleus (Stokes category) (Price: $12.99) Saul Stokes is definitely one of the most popular artists associated with Hypnos (though he has also released a lot of music for other labels as well). This is Saul's first self-released CD, in a distinctive folder-type package, but the music still has that recognizable "Stokes sound." Saul says: Stokes is pleased to announce the release of Sleek Nucleus. Eight effervescent songscapes that simply redefine electronic music. Each song is a crafted fusion of contemporary rhythm and melody sculpted from Stokes' hand-made electronic instruments. A lasting and unforgettable electronic album, Sleek Nucleus continues Stokes' 17 year history of merging sonic innovation with soulful song composition. Track listing with MP3 sample clips: 1 every voyage 2 a two sun summer 3 spun into static 4 pocket universe 5 we. are. signals 6 colonies 7 trace the edge 8 electric moment - with variant impact... (more/buy)
	Seren Ffordd - Floating (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $9.99, ltd cdr) Floating is the third release in our reissue series of the out of print recordings by Seren Ffordd, an ambient artist residing in Wales. Originally released in 2006 on the Italian label Umbra (operated by the great Italian genius of ambient soundscapes, Oophoi) and now out of print, Floating has been reworked slightly by Seren Ffordd for enhanced sound quality. We have previously released Arythmia and Stellar Nurseries in this reissue series, and previously released Seren Ffordd's album Veils, Shadows on Hypnos Secret Sounds a few years earlier. Track listing with mp3 sample clips: 1 Floating 70:30 early mp3, middle mp3, late mp3... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand - Avatara (Hypnos section) (Price: $12.99) Steve Brand got his start releasing experimental music under the name "Augur," and more recently switched over to releasing music under his own name (both solo and in collaboration with such artists as Ishq and Disturbed Earth) on the Atmoworks, Hypnos Secret Sounds and Relaxed Machinery labels. He's quickly established himself as one of the more interesting and distinctive artists working in ambient music, and having released two albums Bridge to Nowhere and Children of Alcyone on Hypnos Secret Sounds in 2008 and 2009, we're very excited to follow up with Steve Brand's new album Avatara on the main Hypnos imprint. This album has a ritual feel common to many of Brand's recordings, though Avatara is more ambient and less percussive. The recording starts out in a place of low-key contemplation and evolves through distinct stages and moods, though it is always gentle and meditative. Steve Brand describes some of the inspirations behind this album: Avatara is Sanskrit for "descent" in the sense of a deity's descent from heaven to earth. Avatara is inspired by the various avatars of various ages and cultures...Yeshua, Quan Yin, Buddha, Brigit, Krishna, Saint Germain, White Buffalo Calf Woman, and others. I’m fascinated by the idea and the various stories in various ages and cultures of humans becoming "ascended masters," or avatars, non-human beings that still are attached to humans and choose to returns to Earth to assist them. The stories vary, and almost every culture has its masters, but one thing is consistent throughout each of their stories, they've realized a more expanded expression of being and awareness, of what we are and what we are capable of, and return to assist other human beings. Track listing, with mp3 sample clips: 01 - Avatara - 5:09 MP3 clip 02 - The Far Shore - 8:45 MP3 clip 03 - Morning Glory - 12:09 MP3 clip 04 - Still Here (breathing space) - 13:38 MP3 clip 05 - Act of Creation - 14:26 MP3 clip 06 - Avatara (deathless) - 7:10 MP3 clip... (more/buy)
	Saul Stokes - Vast (Foundry category) (Price: $13.99) Saul Stokes returns to the music scene with Vast, a showcase for his unique brand of electronica. With Vast Stokes explores new territory utilizing a highly developed lyrical sense built, as ever, on the idiosyncratic sound of his hand-forged equipment. These tracks are truly multi-faceted, and the many detailed sonic embellishments, as well as the fluid structures, set Vast apart.... (more/buy)
	Forrest Fang & Carl Weingarten - Invisibility (Foundry category) (Price: $13.99) Invisibility emerges from a collaboration between Forrest Fang and Carl Weingarten, built on the strong and distinct musical personalities of these two artists. Carl Weingarten displays his assured guitar playing, a unique style that exploits a variety of sounds and a penetrating melodic sensibility. Forrest Fang builds well-balanced arrangements and develops intricate textural tapestries with a sonic palette drawn largely, but not exclusively, from Weingarten's guitar work. The result is a series of enthralling landscapes and tableaus, subtly, but definitively, coloured by the musical insight of Fang and Weingarten. And while the integration of guitar, synthesis and processing may suggest a kind of invisibility in terms of seamlessness, the music is anything but invisible. On first hearing Invisibility is beautifully simple, but repeated listenings will reveal the strong underlying texture and structure that makes this release special... (more/buy)
	M. Bentley - This World (Foundry category) (Price: $13.99) This World gracefully integrates M. Bentley's various approaches to sound design and composition. Created with a combination of DSP tools, field recordings and more conventional synthesis, the suites Chronos & Kairos and Import are related thematically and conceptually. These pieces are extended audio snapshots, sonic gestures towards narrative and story-telling. In one sense this is programme music for the 21st century, or perhaps a soundtrack for memoirs never written.... (more/buy)
	Steve Roach - Immersion Five: Circadian Rhythms (2CD) (Steve Roach category) (Price: $20.99 2CD) The Immersion series takes a compelling turn, moving towards a new perspective on Steve\'s Immersion experience. Disc one, Circadian Rhythms explores a sensual flow of harmonic suspension and sparse melodic mantra-like patterns hovering over rhythmic spaces and mercurial zones. Opening up within an organic analog modular garden of sound, a pulsing undulating groove spiral emerges, creating a suspended sensation of constant flow while hovering in the now. Circadian Rhythms moves through a continuous 73-minute flow in three phases. Disc two, Shroud of Night was created from a blend of Steve\'s unique textural electric guitar and harmonic synth alchemy. The strands of emotion contained within this long-form atmosphere take on a feeling of clouds illuminated by full moonlight wafting into the deep hours of the night. This is a place of pure immersion and sonic warmth. Tested on infinite-repeat mode for over a year throughout all times of the day, into the night and beyond. Immerse thyself, once again... (more/buy)
	Steve Roach/Brian Parnham - The Desert Inbetween (Projekt category) (Price: $13.99) Steve Roach's unique soundquests continue to take him and his listeners on powerful journeys to worlds at once alien and familiar. On The Desert Inbetween, Roach teams up with fellow synthesist/percussionist/didgeridoo player Brian Parnham to explore a hybrid electronic acoustic soundworld sure to please listeners of Suspended Memories and Origins-era tribalism as well as The Serpent\'s Lair-styled electronics... (more/buy)
	Alison Wait - Dove Esistono Solo I Ricordi (Miscellaneous category) (Price: $13.99) The name and the cover art bring to mind something soft and feminine, yet this is a recording by two male ambient artists from Italy, and is quite moody and even dark in tone. Packaged in a beautiful, glossy full-color fold-out sleeve similar to a digipak. "Alison Wait is the gift of the past. Remembrances of long gone days. Childhood memories amplified through the glass of melancholy. A journey hand in hand with what has been and will never return. Dark ambiences melt with guitars & lush synths - come with us to the place where Alison Waits"... (more/buy)
	Nebulæ - The Path of White Clouds (Hypnos section) (Price: $12.99) Hypnos is pleased to reissue this classic ambient album first released by the Stella Maris label. Nebulæ (previously known as "Nebula") is an European ambient supergroup of sorts, featuring Oophoi, Tau Ceti, Mathias Grassow, Klaus Wiese, Lorenzo Pierobon, Luna, and Mauro Malgrande. This is a beautiful, ethereal and abstract ambient recording, which certainly deserved greater attention than it received prior to the demise of Stella Maris, which existed only long enough to release two Nebula albums. That first release was a limited edition CDR but our reissue is a professionally manufactured CD in a beautiful digipak with new graphics. The Path of White Clouds explores a serene and otherworldly soundspace. Meditative and gentle, these six tracks are sure to appeal to listeners who enjoy the more spacious ambient works released by Oophoi during the height of his Umbra and Penumra sister labels. The sound sources utilized here lean more toward the organic and physical instruments, and electronic processing and synthesizers are used subtly to accentuate the rest. In the years since this album was released, Oophoi has grown from just another new practitioner of ambient music to a recording artist as respected and well-loved as any other. We at Hypnos have released other Oophoi works such as Athlit, and his collaboration with Paul Vnuk Jr. (of Ma Ja Le), Distance to Zero. We also have an upcoming release The Martian Chronicles by Oophoi with Seren Ffordd. Usually we focus on releasing new projects, but sometimes a significant early work becomes completely unavailable. In a case such as this, the material strong enough taht we're sure listeners will feel it compares favorably with anything recorded since. The Path of White Clouds deserves to be heard. Track list with MP3 samples 1 The Quest 4:00 MP3 clip 2 Ascension 10:36 MP3 clip 3 Devotion 13:25 MP3 clip 4 The Living Mandala 9:15 MP3 clip 5 Enlightenment 16:20 MP3 clip 6 The Path of White Clouds 11:16 MP3 clip... (more/buy)
	Dead Voices on Air - From Afar all Stars Spark and Glee (Soleilmoon category) (Price: $14.99) Digipak Release from Dead Voices on Air, side project of Mark Spybey. "The 14th album from this fruitful solo project by in-demand collaborator Mark Spybey (Download, ex-Zoviet-France), From Afar is fixated on space and distance. Spybey utilises them well, setting cryptic layers of sound at seemingly different points ever towards the horizon." -cyclicdefrost.com... (more/buy)
	Dead Voices on Air - Fast Falls the Eventide (2 CD) (Soleilmoon category) (Price: $16.99 2CD) "Blink twice, listen carelessly and you\'ll fail to discern the minutiae Spybey meticulously works into every one of the pieces sprawling across this 2-CD set's eminent domain. Spybey works hard at his art so you don't have to: rather, as the listener, the participant, the absorber, it\'s more important to ignore categorical tags such as industrial, ambient, soundscape, et al, and instead gorge deeply on a wriggling, sometimes confrontational puzzlebox of sounds erupting from a bevy of mysterious sources." -Lens Records... (more/buy)
	Gnome & Spybey - Beyond Willie's Place (Soleilmoon category) (Price: $15.99) Digipak Release. "Mark Spybey's been having his way with rhythm and noise for so long that the motifs he's ascribed over the years are practically commonplace amongst the novice post-industrialist, or hell, the post-whatever. His is a sound that summons any number of nocturnal beasties from the ether. Throughout the last 25-plus years, he's plied his trade and remarkable sonic mojo both solo and in the company of many a forward-thinking electronic engineer. His collaborators include cEvin Key, Eric Pounder, Jean-Yves Theriault, Jarboe, Mick Harris, Martin Atkins, James Plotkin, Mark Nugent, Orphx, Phil Western, David Wright, Zev Asher, Darryl Neudorf, Ryan Moore, Niels van Hoorn, Kinder Atom, Evolution Control Committee, Chris Connelly and others. It's as Dead Voices On Air, however, that some of his most startling ideas emerge fully-realized and fully-armed; of course, to hear Spybey tell it, once art leaves the nest it's up to (once again) the recipient to assume the role of engager: My work is created in isolation from external references. That is the ideal I strive for. Only in this way is it possible to allow the listener an opportunity to create their own understanding of the music, or, as the artist Joseph Beuys once said, One should resort to interpretation only in an emergency." -Tourette Records... (more/buy)
	Rapoon - Media Studies (Soleilmoon category) (Price: $21.99) Digipak Release. These recordings include the voice of David Icke. They reflect on the role of the media in shaping and informing opinions (the war in Iraq for example showed the shameless use of the media by a government intent on war whatever the real facts were) and in furthering prejudices and persecution of those who have differing views and dare to express them . In 1991 Icke was interviewed on a well known prime time chat show with the sole purpose of public humiliation for entertainment value. There are many instances of the use of media for manipulation and propaganda and many have succumbed to the pressures when the media has been directed against them by malevolent forces (Dr David Kelly, UN weapons inspector in Iraq) The words of David Icke are used here in a benign and impartial way. Whatever your views about the thoughts of the man you have to admire his tenacity against the odds... (more/buy)
	Rapoon - Dream Circle (Special edition reissue 2010) (Soleilmoon category) (Price: $21.99 limited) Beautifully produced re-issue of the very first RAPOON album from 1992, released shortly after the split from ZOVIET FRANCE; a classic of ethno-ambient industrialism. Dark, esoteric and dense, with a lot of haunting loops, frightening whispers and subtle trance-inducing rhythms. Though it’s nearly 20 years old, it sounds fresh and actual, as now the spiral of time made its turn bringing us closer to this point of eternal dream circle, just one level higher (or lower, who knows?) The release limited to 500 copies comes in a mini LP-like embossed cover with inner sleeve, both printed gold-on-black... (more/buy)
	Forrest Fang - Phantoms (Projekt category) (Price: $13.99) Phantoms is Forrest Fang's 9th solo album and the follow-up to his Projekt release, Gongland. Nearly eight years in the making, Phantoms builds on the gamelan-influenced soundscapes of its predecessor by weaving organic sounds of non-Western stringed and percussion instruments and filtering those sounds through a rich melodic tapestry of warm and vaporous atmospheres. Fang's subtly layered and continually evolving textures combine his Asian influences with his love of fractal algorithms that reflect the chaotic beauty of nature. The ambiences of Phantoms evoke a state of contemplation within a world in flux. The centerpiece of the album is a 23-minute ambient suite "The Hallucinations of Hung Tung" inspired by the otherworldly paintings of a Taiwanese fisherman and outsider artist... (more/buy)
	Forrest Fang's Sans Serif: Unbound (Projekt category) (Price: $13.99) Unbound is veteran ambient musician Forrest Fang exploring lush and abstract terrain under the Sans Serif moniker. Using very small - at times microscopic - sounds as source material, Fang utilizes a vocabulary of long shimmering tones that gradually warp, mutate and transform over the course of a piece.... (more/buy)
	Bob Ohrum - Subliminal Listening (cdr) (Relaxed Machinery category) (Price: $9.99 cdr) New one from Bob Ohrum and Relaxed Machinery. Track List: 1. Day of the Locust 8:04 2. Overpass Symphony #1 3:46 3. Nightwalk 8:05 4. Subliminal Listening parts 1 and 2 15:26 MP3 sample clip 5. Rain 2:05 6. Borderlands 8:09 7. Super Secret Bonus Track with Crickets 9:47 Review by "eyes cast down" "...plays like an urban version of the Solitudes nature series, built on unprocessed field recordings and mechanical drones, embellished with darklit synth chords whose tone and texture sometimes recall Pink Floyd. The effect is that of a city-noir soundscape at 3am, with your back window open just before (or after) the rain. The sense of urban location is uncanny and – unaccountably – mesmerizing. It doesn’t make sense, it just is. “Subliminal” means “beneath the threshold of consciousness”; you can listen to this album as quiet background, let it get under your skin and color your space. If you’re in the city – especially if you’re alone, on a rainy night – these urban atmospherics can be your soundtrack, bringing the city’s slow, nocturnal pulse right into your listening space."... (more/buy)
	Chris Russell & Disturbed Earth - The Approaching Armada (cdr) (Relaxed Machinery category) (Price: $9.99 cdr) New collaboration from Chris Russell & Disturbed Earth on the Relaxed Machinery label. Track List: 1. Watching As Pools Form 9:27 MP3 sample 2. Clutching at the Strands 8:09 3. Leaves on Trees 8:51 MP3 sample 4. Cold Night 6:08 5. Neon Light 6:58 6. The Approaching Armada 7:32 7. To the East of Evening 18:38 Reviewed by "eyes cast down": "The music of Chris Russell and Disturbed Earth (Dean Richards)... fully lives up to any expectations created by such a compelling and dramatic title. This album is beatless, atmospheric and mesmerizing. Wonderfully-woven textures and bedrock drones irresistibly draw you in...This is ambient music in a very classic sense – except for one point: Good luck listening to it as background – if you turn it down very quiet you might have a chance. Otherwise, prepare to be held rapt for the duration. Highly recommended!... (more/buy)
	Herion - Out and About (Hypnos section) (Price: $12.99) 2010. Herion is an Italian trio whose members include Emanuele Errante (known to Hypnos customers for Humus on Evan Bartholomew's Somnia label), Enrico Coniglio (Aqua Dorsa project collaborator with Oophoi for the album Cloudlands, he also released Sea Cathedrals solo on Silentes), and Elisa Marzorati. They've created a beautiful and compelling combination of delicate musical structures with "glitch" components and strange, experimental little samples. Always a pleasant, peaceful listen, Out and About brings a blissed-out classical musicality into connection with an artful edge. This combination of elements results in an especially sensitive, moving set of mood pieces. Somewhere between chamber music and minimalism, between lightness and melancholy, this trio balances elements uncommon in ambient music. Pre-release review: "Emanuele Errante, Enrico Coniglio, and Elisa Marzorati have created a wonderful album that moves right to the soul of the listener. While I was familiar with Emanuele Errante, who released the excellent Humus album on Somnia in 2008, the other performers were a mystery to me. Marzorati’s piano motifs, mixed with Coniglio’s multi-faceted contributions involving melodica, harmonica, and treated guitar, all meld beautifully with Errante’s orchestral arrangements." -–Review by Michael Vitrano for Fluid Radio Hypnos is very pleased to release the first album this this trio. Out and About is not only a departure in terms of sound, but is also the Hypnos label's first release in digipak format. Here are pictures to give a sense of the package (click on images to see super-big version). See below for sample audio clips in mp3 format. Out and About tracks, including mp3 sample clips: 01. Oxg MP3 02. Lindos MP3 03. Cab MP3 04. One Minute After the Sunset MP3 05. Moske Orgulje MP3 06. The Earth MP3 07. The Hanging Glacier MP3 08. Two Minutes To Sunrise MP3 09. Risvegli MP3 10. Solo MP3... (more/buy)
	Resonant Drift - Passages (Resonant Drift category) (Price: $12.99) This release has the feel of being made from the moment while at the same time woven with layers of subtle innerplay and amorphous, shifting spaces. The 10 pieces or passages find inspiration in part from the challenges faced when traversing a path to enlightenment. Mastered and sonic enhancements by Steve Roach... (more/buy)
	Hollan Holmes - A Distant Light (Miscellaneous category) (Price: $9.99) Hollan says: A Distant Light, my debut CD, is the result of a dream that started as a young man, to create music that would capture people's imaginations. While my music is always a deeply personal journey, I derive great joy from sharing it with others. My love of synthesizers and the creative process have inspired me to compose music that transforms my consciousness and feeds my spirit. It is a form of expression, of prayer and meditation, and reflection. The music on A Distant Light was composed between 2007 and 2010 and was mastered by Steve Roach at the Time Room in Arizona. It is with great honor that I share my work and I thank you for listening... (more/buy)
	I've Lost - Scáth M'anam (cdr) (Relaxed Machinery category) (Price: $9.99 cdr) Scáth M’anam is the first album by I’ve Lost to be released on Relaxed Machinery. Scáth M’anam is a Gaelic phrase, which can be translated as “Shadow of My Soul”. The artist, aka Bobby Jones, chose this title by looking to his Irish roots. He explains the project's motive: "As a reaction to the unstoppable machine of technological advancements, I composed this album as a means to desperately hold on to, and express, my humanity. The works are the result of an emotional, and subsequently human, response to the world. They are fragile, intimate, personal and genuine." In keeping with the artist's historical role, Bobby offers the listener an intimate glimpse into his humanity - bringing to light those elements which may be lost, or considered unimportant in the wake of social, economic and political changes resulting from technological “progress”. Track listing: 1. i wish i could fly (sections 1-8) 71:23 mp3 sample 2. ghosts on the wind 7:44 mp3 sample ... (more/buy)
	Netherworld - Over the Summit (Glacial Movements category) (Price: $15.99) Three years after his first full length CD, Netherworld comes back with this new work titled Over the Summit, in which enclosed memories, feelings, and past experiences, deeply lived during the years and surrounded by an almost deafening silence, can be heard and felt circling vast mountains’ snowy peaks. The underlined aspect is the sensation of peacefulness or contemplation of an uncontaminated and silent nature, wrapped in the winter’s white blanket. For the six tracks composing Over the Summit, the sound emanated by the Aurora Borealis has been embraced and manipulated for a work of art, melting it with ethers of orchestral fragments escaped by the perennial layers of Permafrost.... (more/buy)
	SKARE - Solstice City (Glacial Movements category) (Price: $15.99) An interpretation of a journey through a shifting landscape where the city meets nature. Departing from a distant and foreign shore, the traveler embarks a ship, uncertain of his destination. This prelude, introduced vividly in To the other shore, releases this pilgrim to further explore yet uncharted territories. Leaving all man-made conventions, the second track, Through Wind and Broken Ice takes us where the city imitates nature. Finally, a factory appears in the whiteout; a place where angels are manufactured as presented in the final track, The Snow Angel Factory. The vehicles used by Skare on this journey are field recordings, found sounds and treated and manipulated instruments.... (more/buy)
	Francisco Lopez - Amarok (Glacial Movements category) (Price: $15.99) For Amarok, two years of hard work have been employed using sounds and processed field recordings. After a few seconds from the track beginning we are dipped into an arctic trip which lasts more than an hour and in which tangled weavings in a masterly fashion handled by the Spanish artist appear, develop and dissolve. Gusts of arctic wind, the Amarok’s wheezing breath (Amarok is the name of a gigantic wolf in Inuit mythology) and the sense of loss in the polar night are only some of the sensations that this cryogenic hallucinatory acoustic is able to evoke.... (more/buy)
	Michael Mantra - Sonic Alter / Deepchord Remix (Amplexus/Silentes category) (Price: $13.99) This is a new re-working of the classic ambient masterpiece by Michael Mantra. For this version, Rod Modell (Deepchord records in Detroit) added rhythmic elements and further processing. Many brain-hemisphere synchronization techniques / frequencies are employed.With headphones, this cd has a stunning drug-like effect. An updated classic... (more/buy)
	Michael Mantra - Amanita Lake (2 CD + DVD) (Amplexus/Silentes category) (Price: $24.99, 2CD+DVD) Two hours and a half of music collected on a double CD set that also contain a DVD video. Two long tracks of sublime and evocative pseudo-abstract and multicoloured ambient textures, built with discreet and repetitive background microstructures layered with continuous and infinite variations worked out from clusters of sounds and sketches of melodic sequences made of light sonorities, delicate and quiet as well, but also hypnotic and warm… Fragile harmonies and mild dissonances in a timeless sonic continuum that enfolds and rocks the listener, among infinite spirals and floating waves in an everlasting movement. Another new, mind-boggling masterpiece, absolutely unmissable for all the lovers of Michael Mantra's music.... (more/buy)
	Michael Mantra - A.L.B.E. (Amplexus/Silentes category) (Price: $13.99) Soft and dilated ambient atmospheres, minimal sonorities, floating electronic carpets… A new, “classic� and fascinating album in the typical and unmistakable Michael Mantra style... Four long and suggestive tracks, to be listened at low volume relaxing in the half-light, just like a discreet and refined sonic background, or at an higher volume for a “full immersion� into warm and wrapping electronic soundwaves, to the discovery of intriguing and evocative sonic landscapes... (more/buy)
	Enrico Conglio - Sea Cathedrals (Amplexus/Silentes category) (Price: $13.99) Five superb tracks of deep and evocative ambient music, enriched with echoes of ancient ritual suggestions. The immense spaces and the abyssal deepness of the sea, but also the sound of the bowels of the Earth, the color of the sand of the desert, the energy of the wind, the strength of all the Elements, the infinite cycle of day and night, of life and death… A long circular journey through interchanging atmospheres that shake and capture, dragging with energy, then leave room for more quiet and soothing introspective stasis, and again become dramatic and overwhelming, A great, unmissable album of classic ritual ambient music.... (more/buy)
	Celer - Salvaged Violets (2CD) (Infraction category) (Price: $13.99 2CD) New Celer -- always popular around here! Statement by Will of Celer: "In February of 2008, Dani and I recorded, mixed, and completed the music for 'Salvaged Violets'. The words came as the subject line of a short poem, sent to me over email, included with an unrelated question. During these weekdays, our working schedules were almost the opposite, but we spoke over email constantly. Until recently, I did not notice how similar this was to our beginnings, sending letters as we were on different sides of the country. With no conceptual idea in mind, and since we were apart for so much time during the weekdays, we decided to begin 'Salvaged Violets', and see what came of it. Every night when I returned home, before sleeping, I would spend time working on the music that Dani had worked on through the afternoon, and had left on the desk. Every afternoon, she would find a different version to work on that I had left, and this continued for some time. When together, we would sip our tea, laugh at silly jokes, cook, watch television, and so on. There was no need for longing while we were together. There was always laughing, pots and pans clanging, or a muttering television. In forming 'Salvaged Violets', we did not mix it in a particular arranged order. It was mixed simply by the order it was first played, compiling many miniature sections rolled into one. In this case, they were rolled into two. Nothing was discarded, nothing was rearranged. As the sound changed over time, the original form did not. When it was finally complete, we listened together, for the first time. I remember how familiar it seemed, yet I also felt that so much of it was unknown, and undefined. More than a year later, in September of 2009, I revisited the recordings for the first time since 2008. At this time, it was being mastered by our good friend Corey Fuller, so I was still listening to the original. Riding my bike through the endless suburban subdivisions, through the busy downtown streets, I listened repeatedly, for days, over and over. Something was familiar, but so much I was unable to recall, and yet I was able to relate. I returned home, put my bike against the door, and took my headphones off. There, in the still silence, I think I understood finally what it was about." ... (more/buy)
	Capricornus - Halation (Infraction category) (Price: $11.99) Some nice new minimalist stuff from Infraction. Reviewed by Alan Lockett for furthernoise.org: "Halation gives off a flat-on-back eyes-to-skies drowsy air with its long drawn out tone-rays. Highly amorphous in strategy, a purist ambient Enovian ethos a la Thursday Afternoon may suggest itself. On occasion, clusters of notes flicker within the freefloating drone, mirroring the eponymous halation effect - transient morning brume, or light refracted through water vapour rendered blurred." Issued in a 4 panel digipak, limited to 500 copies.... (more/buy)
	Ray Carl Daye - Echoes from the Aether (Miscellaneous category) (Price: $9.99) Like the Earth's upper atmosphere, the music is pure, floating, weightless, frictionless - both static and slowly evolving. Track listing 1. Echoes From the Aether 6:58 preview: MP3 clip 2. A Fragile Shift 13:24 preview: MP3 clip 3. Meridian Wave 11:20 4. The Light Between 12:42 "I really enjoy discovering new music, finding something that I've never heard before that connects with me in a new and interesting way. One of my favorite finds so far this year has been "Echoes from the Aether" by Ray Carl Daye, an impressive release featuring four sublimely beautiful drifting ambient tracks that have stayed in pretty much constant rotation in my player over the last few weeks. Beginning with the title track a warm and soothing mood is set, music perfect for Sunday morning listening before the day begins. High end melodies paired with lower tones play atop slowly drifting pads, while vaguely watery sounds and occasional snippets of melody float by. It's a really relaxing track, ideal for closing one's eyes and drifting. "A Fragile Shift" follows, equally beautiful and engaging with light tones bending and stretching through a bed of subtle sounds. The track ebbs and flows in slowly drifting waves, with every sound delicate and nuanced, beautifully minimal. "Meridian Wave" is up next pairing bright tones with low bass drones. It's a quiet piece where things happen slowly but purposefully and sounds slowly rotate around a centre of stillness, a very nice example of the beauty of simplicity. "The Light Between" closes the disc with a bright and warm pad-based track that flows with rich textures and layers, drifting from space to space, bringing to mind images of comfort and safety. A slight melody is there if you look for it but if you'd rather you can just let the tones flow around you and be enveloped by the soundscape created over the course of its length. To say that I enjoy "Echoes from the Aether" is a bit of an understatement. I'm moved by it's beauty, and as I continue to listen to it I find myself discovering more and more depth and sophistication in the music. Ray Carl Daye displays an impressive talent that I'm quite moved by and I look forward to seeing where his work takes me in the future." Reviewed by rik - ping things... (more/buy)
	Phragments & Korinth - Mysteries of the Greylands (Greytone category) (Price: $12.99) Digipak. "On this album, Phragments and Korinth have united into one monolithic entity, to produce a common opus. Orchestral choirs, dark ambient and ritual passages create a perfect cinematic journey over the mysterious Greylands, an archetypal and symbolic travel through the hidden side of the world. All songs are the result of collaboration of the two projects, resulting in a unique narrative experience. After three years of work, Phragments and Korinth deliver a ripe album -- a great journey for the listener." From Greytone Records... (more/buy)
	SantAAgostino - Operazione Paura (Greytone category) (Price: $12.99) Digipak. "Operazione Paura is a total turning not just for the band but for dark, ambient music and noise, generally speaking. That's because santAAgostino is like a meteor crashed onto the Earth disarranging all the balances, rhythmes and cycles. After the crash the planet seems to be perished but, in the inner part, the new fire of life is burning. A brand new energy developed in a new way of living, of thinking and being. Operazine Paura speaks of the filmic and horrorific fear, mind trap to kill atavistic thoughts and all those mental factors that trapped the man into a selfmade cage in his own mind, through the mind itself. Operazione Paura is an awl that, slowly but inexorably, drives the listener to a dimension where there is no thought, no images, no more conceptualizing, nothing still exhists: there is just a huge solitary desert now, where sounds spontaneously flow creating new monster beyond space and time. It's a place where new divine dynasties born, spreading their seed, in order to bear a brand new reign far from the borders that we can't even imagine." From Greytone Records... (more/buy)
	Trama afonA - Trama afonA (Greytone category) (Price: $12.99) Digipak. "Trama afonA is gathering suggestions from the contemporary quotidian theatre and at the same time from the past, namely the 19th and early 20th centuries. Paying particular attention to the individual and specific human stories, rather than to History… Focusing on what happens behind the scenes, aside, beneath. Subjects and dynamics less showy, blurred, but not consequently less interesting or worth caring. Opening doors and drawers using the sole curiosity as tool, walking backwards the traces of memory, wandering amid shades and details given by mystery, decadence, abandon, romanticismâ. Carefully delving into psychological dynamics. Openly denouncing the social plagues, but often humbly providing just visual and sound suggestions." From Greytone Records... (more/buy)
	Topografia - Genius Loci (Greytone category) (Price: $12.99) Digipak. "Genius Loci uses deep drones, acoustic instruments, sounds and field recordings registered near the author's place of living (Jaworzno). The project was inspired by the author's personal fascination with the diversity of nature and the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who considered nature to be one of the most primaeval manifestations of a blind and aimless will, a will which we too are a part of."... (more/buy)
	Taphephobia - Access to a World of Pain (Greytone category) (Price: $12.99) Digipak. "The music Taphephobia makes is mostly based on manipulated guitars (except house of memories that is mostly based on sounds). Taphephobia try to get out the feelings he has at the moment when Ketil compose the music. The idea is to create a atmosphere that is sometimes scary, and sometimes beautiful, like for example a good thriller drama movie. Taphephobia is very skilled to create a cinematic atmosphere combined with personal feelings like fear, hope, hate, regrets etc… The main goal is to make the listener able to dream away with the music." -From Greytone Records... (more/buy)
	Larva 108 - 99.09 | Inside the Stones (Greytone category) (Price: $12.99) Digipak. "A soundtrack for walking alone through a winter snowstorm or between the trees during a gray day of November. Experimental, electronica, drones creates organic gloomy atmospheres." From Greytone Records... (more/buy)
	Moljebka Pvlse - Zojo (Greytone category) (Price: $12.99) Digipak. "The Moljebka Pvlse album Zojo was recorded during the Mathias studies at the Royal Institute of Art. He was inspired by the longest night of the year in Stockholm, the day when there is almost no daylight. His ambition was to make an acoustic album of minimal music without any musical instruments. Moljebka Pvlse setup long nylon strings across his entire studio at school, which he then plucked and bowed and recorded with his favorite contact microphones on that very night. These recordings became the fundament of the album and set the tone for the rest of the work." From Greytone Records... (more/buy)
	M.B/M.D.T - Genologic Technocide (Miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Latest work by the master of industrial and noise music, Maurizio Bianchi. With the help of Davide Femia of M.D.T. (Museo della Tortura), these recordings show the most extreme side of M.B., not very much ambient oriented, but a strong industrial noise opera." -Noiseguide.com... (more/buy)
	Igneous Flame - Orcus (miscellaneous category) (Price: $11.99, Data DVD-ROM) ION and Orcus have been released concurrently (October 2010), as expressions of the polar opposites of Igneous Flames' work. Raw, potent and at times unerringly chthonic, Orcus is a relentless collage of outer-stellar dronage, refined industrial noise(s) and processed binaural recordings. It continues to explore the holophonics of Igneous Flames' earlier Intox and Hydra albums. Powerful sounds and energies have been fused together in this release, which is intended as a statement on the current corrosive energies unleashed into the world. Best listened to on headphones (loud !) - due to the use of binaural recordings and spatial processes employed. DVD-ROM data disc containing audio files in WAV and MP3 formats, along with digital artwork. Disc is enclosed in a snapper vinyl case without booklet or printed artwork, except full-color printing on the disc itself... (more/buy)
	Relapxych.0 - City Nightlights (Miscellaneous category) (Price: $11.99) City Nightlights was built upon field recordings from areas around Stockholm central station, Stadshuskajen, Riddarholmen, Tegelbacken and some abandoned and architecturally left-behind areas under and beneath the main central station, imbuing the six tracks with a tangible spectral presence and greatly enhances their organically drifting nature.... (more/buy)
	Llunstorcarnay (Seren Ffordd and Gliese 614) - Lament of a Forgotten God (CDR) (miscellaneous category) (Price: $11.99) Debut album from "Llunstorcarnay," a collaboration between Seren Ffordd and Gliese 614. "Lament of a Forgotten God is inspired by the ancient poems such as the Song of Taliesyn and was recorded between August 2008 - March 2010. The album developed a life of its own, not quite going where we had intended but drawing us into its own sounds and direction - we are pleased at having given it a voice.... (more/buy)
	Seren Ffordd - Arhythmia (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $9.99, ltd cdr) Reissue of out of print 2005 recording by Seren Ffordd, an ambient artist residing in Wales. This is the second in our series of reissues by this artist, following Stellar Nurseries, and we previously released his album Veils, Shadows on Hypnos Secret Sounds a few years earlier. Arhythmia is hypnotic and at times restful, yet often has an "edge" or a discordant quality. It's more "active" than most other Seren Ffordd music Cycles, patterns and rhythms, the world is full of them. Not the steady beats prevalent in most music, but subtle interlocking rhythms that dance and move through each other. The flow between the monthly phases of the moon and the daily tides. Stellar precession and the turning of galaxies. The pulsations of our blodd, neurons and breathing. In five parts, Arhythmia is an exploration of such shifting patterns that can be heard and felt but not danced to. Rhythms and movements of sound that draw the mind and spirit into other places of dreaming. Arhythmia is a mixture of light and dark textures that contain both flowing and hypnotic elements. All the sound sources on the CD are acoustic in origin. They include field recordings of Thunder, rain and other things. The rest of the music is created on singing bowls, voice, gourds and chimes. All the effects and sound manipulations are performed on a Korg D16 digital portastudio. Recorded in June and July 2005. "Interestingly with a title like Arhythmia, the artwork on the front of this one looks much like the inside of a heart valve, albeit softened in both texture and color. As for the music, hopefully it won't give you any cardiac trouble. Darker and more experimental than his other discs, here Benford takes us into what he calls 'an exploration of rhythms that can be heard and felt but not danced to.' Rumbling and churning sounds are joined by a steady rain in the background. Benford notes that the music is divided into five parts, although it plays as a single track... Arhythmia is daring adventurous fun." --Review by Phil Derby, Electroambient Space Track listing, with mp3 sample clips: Part I - 10:15 mp3 clip Part II - 14:45 mp3 clip Part III - 17:00 mp3 clip Part IV - 14:00 mp3 clip Part V - 14:50 mp3 clip ... (more/buy)
	Nordvarger - Pyrrhula (Cold Spring category) (Price: $13.99) Partly based on an old Swedish folktale, Pyrrhula (doomlord) is a pitch black journey into utter darkness. This is a tale of foreboding doom... a portent of dark times to come... a blight on the face of this earth. These eight Black Ambient / Doom / Droneworks were brought forth from the abyss of Villa Bohult exclusively for Cold Spring and contain the malevolent vocals of Lord Nordvargr himself! Beware the small creatures of light, they only bring misery and death upon the enlightened ones. For they will paint their breast with blood and reap your unborn angels.... (more/buy)
	Machinefabriek - Daas (Cold Spring category) (Price: $13.99) The tracks on Daas have been carefully picked to form a provoking, haunting journey. What the tracks have in common is a sense of nostalgic graininess. As with the music of Philip Jeck, The Caretaker or William Basinski, these tracks are full of degrading melodies and dusty ambience. \'Daas\' is the previously unreleased opening track of the album, and features contributions by the great Richard Skelton. Flotter, Koploop and Grom were previously available on small run self released EPs, while Onkruid was a track previously released on A Room Forever, as an expensive and extremely limited 12\" boxset. All are now brought to a wider audience. Presented in a laminate digipak... (more/buy)
	Alex Tiuniaev - I Knew Her (Cold Spring category) (Price: $13.99) I knew Her is a 40-minute long journey of heart-melting, melancholic and neo-symphonic splendour - full of choirs, strings and neoclassical orchestration. This solitary track builds to a haunting and breathtaking crescendo... then brings the listener gently back down to the warm earth. A monumental release, with influences ranging from Sigur Ros to Philip Glass and Stars Of The Lid... (more/buy)
	Inade - Aldebaran (Cold Spring category) (Price: $13.99) Debut CD from the masters of Black Ambient, available again after 6 years! Aldebaran is the black sun of the secret knowledge. This work focuses on the German Vril society myths of Aldebaran, from which universal spirituality is said to originate. One hour of immense walls of dark, brooding atmospherics, pulsating anthems of the universal power, mixed with themes of heritage and history. The ultimate document of deep and cavernous dark ambient... (more/buy)
	Z'EV - Sum Things (Cold Spring category) (Price: $13.99) These six pieces endeavor to transport the listener deep into their long forgotten memories of the primal forces at the dawn of creation. Each piece is based on a single sound source. Absolutely no effects of any kind, not even equalization, were applied to the source recordings. Instead, Z'EV relied solely on the stretching of the duration and pitch of the samples and then edited and mixed the results down into the heart of space... (more/buy)
	Sleep Research Facility - Deep Frieze (Cold Spring category) (Price: $13.99) Ultra deep, glacial Dark Ambient, based around Antarctic co-ordinates. The polar regions are awe-inspiring environments of inhospitable minimalism, and at the same time there\'s a beautiful serenity to be found in their uncharted bleakness. There's a powerful purity and a timelessness to be found there; snow which has lain un-trampled for millennia and ice which formed eons ago; mountain ranges and deserts and rivers to be found if you look. Deep Frieze is SRF\'s second album for Cold Spring and here deep, resonant, abyss-like drones shine forth from icy chasms below. Jewelcase with foldout map booklet... (more/buy)
	Sleep Research Facility - Nostromo (Cold Spring category) (Price: $13.99) Ultra deep ambience, based on the first 8 minutes of the movie Alien, which depicts the deep space haulage vessel slowly moving through the void. The disc takes you through a slow trip into the ship via tracks DECK A - E, deeper and deeper into the bowels of the Nostromo. Colossal dark ambience from the abyss, with beautiful artwork that evokes the sinister atmosphere of the ship. Reissue with bonus track Narcissus.... (more/buy)
	Tor Lundvall - Ghost Years (Cold Spring category) (Price: $13.99) "Ghost Years is my first retrospective CD featuring tracks from various compilations, vinyl-only releases plus some unreleased material. The focus is more on my vocal work, however there are a few instrumental pieces included as well. Although the music spans about a decade, I was surprised at how well the tracks flow together to make a coherent ensemble, evolving from my earlier song-oriented compositions to the more ambient nature of my recent recordings." -Tor Lundvall... (more/buy)
	All Hail the Transcending Ghost - All Hail the Transcending Ghost (Cold Spring category) (Price: $13.99) The debut album from AHTTG - a joint collaboration between Henrik Nordvargr Bjorkk (MZ.412, Toroidh, Folkstorm etc) and Tim Bertilsson (Fear Falls Burning, Switchblade). The Swedish duo have created arguably one of the most haunting drone-dark-ambient-industrial works in recent years, invoking the spirits of old Nordvargr, meets the sludge-doom vibe of Tim\'s hellish guitar. ...truly the most scary music I have recorded, (Nordvargr.) An icy chill down your spine... a cold hand on your shoulder... you are never alone in the darkness... (more/buy)
	Alio Die - Music Infinity meets Virtues, Live in Prague 23th May 2009 (Nextera category) (Price: $13.99) Performed live at Church of St. Simon and Juda, Prague , Old Town, May 23, 2009 and presented as part of the concert series Music Infinity in association with the Italian cultural institute in Prague Track listing 01 Axis Mundi II 6:19 02 Brace di Trasformazione 6:35 03 Sine Tempore 11:26 04 Innamorato 4:57 05 Password for Entheogenic Experience 10:56 06 Duello con l'Incommensurabile 8:18 07 Raag Drone Theory 25:28 Total Time: 74:02.... (more/buy)
	Concert Silence (Infraction category) (Price: $13.99) Concert Silence is a collaboration between Charles Buckingham and Matthew Cooper, currently both residing in Portland, Oregon. An ongoing conversation between the two began in 2004 when they met over a shared interest in live sound manipulation. 09.22.07 was the first major outcome of discussions regarding symbiotic cultures and their implications to music. A live performance set up was designed, allowing each player to have equal input and manipulation control, (which can be seen in a diagram within the artwork of the album).... (more/buy)
	Concert Silence - Rain Furniture (Infraction category) (Price: $13.99) With Rain Furniture, Charles Buckingham and Matthew Cooper wanted to explore a new and different musical territory than previously traveled, while still using the audio set up from 09.22.07. As a companion piece to the full length, Rain Furniture engages a more raw energy.... (more/buy)
	Ben Fleury-Steiner - Keep a Weather Eye Open (Infraction category) (Price: $13.99) From the inset,Tender is the opaque morning the scene has been set on Keep a Weather Eye Open into a Bryars-esque dip into the sunken Titanic. Gently clattering china on a slow drop to the bed of the ocean, faint light filtering through. The band plays on, the notes become submerged & eventually a hymnal drone emerges repeating over and over in slow cycles. This is not the end however, as unlike the ill-fated Vessel of Sleep, this work re-emerges to the surface and into hazy light. Roughly 2 years in the making, KAWEO is presented in a digipak with a 12 page color booklet in an edition of 900 copies. KAWEO was mastered by Robert Rich... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand - Coniunctio (2CDR) (Relaxed Machinery label) (Price: $19.99 2CDR) Coniunctio is the joining of two longform ambient works. "Pale Blue Orb" is very celestial, spacious, glowing in the warmth of enveloping light and consciousness while "The Beginning of Days" is more terrestrial, Earthy. Track listing: Disc 01 Pale Blue Orb - 61:06 Disc 02 The Beggining of Days - 72:45 Audio clips available here.... (more/buy)
	Mystified - Passing through the Outer Gates, Eulogy Series Volume 1 (Miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Ambient and dark ambient soundscapes alike are deftly populated by neo-classical elements, occasionally with an experimental twist. There are no comparisons to other musicians or albums, as this album and the journey within are distinctly those of Mystified! Dare you join Thomas on his spiritual journey? Or do you fear to leave this world behind? Mystified's Passing Through the Outer Gates is presented in an A5 digipak with silver foil-embossed lettering and a specially die-cut cover whose coffin-shaped hole reveals only a hint of the true album cover artwork underneath! Featuring David Demaret`s Burning Souls painting, with additional graphics and layout by Eclipse Media. Limited to 500 copies... (more/buy)
	Secret Druid Society - Restless (Miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Long after we are all dead and gone, the planet will continue to go about its business. The duo of musicians that form Secret Druid Society carefully carved, molded, and eroded drones and minimal dark ambient soundscapes, finally recording what had evolved from the process, in order to tell a story not of human misery, not of an apocalypse, but of what Earth has always done and will continue to do for periods of time wholly unfathomable by the human mind. Limited to 500 copies, Secret Druid Society's Restless is presented in digipak format with an 8-page booklet, featuring short poems penned by the hands of the project's musicians.... (more/buy)
	Nunc Stans - We Leave Without Speaking (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) We Leave Without Speaking is a single, 72 minute piece of expansive and deeply involving atmospheric ambience that wanders an enigmatic world of its own making, seamlessly flowing through a variety of rich sonic palettes and absorbing soundworlds. A work of considerable beauty, with an underlying sense of forlorn isolation and longing. A mature and sophisticated continuation of the Nunc Stans legacy. Performed by Anthony Paul Kerby, spring 2010, using various synthesisers, guitar, treated piano, field recordings, and digital processing. Includes free bonus 2nd disc... (more/buy)
	ATOI - Ambient Temple Of Imagination (Plague category) (Price: $13.99) Limited edition, housed in A5-jacket. Over 70 minutes of ritual kabbalistic trance. ATOI member Seofon says: It's the ATOI disc that I've always wanted to see released. Featuring Johannes Ayres (IAO Core), Joshua Maremont (Thermal), Stephen Kent, Roy Robinson (23 Degrees), vidnaObmana and Mark Wayne (E.A.R.)... (more/buy)
	Steve Roach - Sigh of Ages (Projekt category) (Price: $13.99) Emotions quietly stir and resonate in this deeply self-reflective album exploring the terrain between melodic electronic/ambient and modern minimalism. These six pieces utilize gentle melody, harmony and sonic tonality to poignantly reflect upon the passage of time, life lived, lives passed and a time of renewal: a sigh of the ages expressed in sound... (more/buy)
	Byron Metcalf/ Dashmesh Khalsa/ Steve Roach - Dream Tracker (Steve Roach category) (Price: $13.99) A full-blown dreamtime alchemy of all the elements. The living, breathing percussion, didgeridoo and soundworlds are unified in a single purpose: to open to the door out of the ordinary world, initiating the listener into an empowered journey of infinite possibilities for spiritual rebirth, illumination, and transcendence... (more/buy)
	Chris Russell - Frozen (cdr) (Relaxed Machinery label) (Price: $9.99 cdr) Frozen recalls the stillness and silence of a winter snowfall transitioning into spring, celebrating the rebirth and renewal of life. Track listing: 01 aurora / 02 thaw / 03 time lost / 04 tundra / 05 numb / 06 frozen / 07 otzi / 08 slowly drifting... (more/buy)
	Bob Ohrum - Elevated (cdr) (Relaxed Machinery label) (Price: $9.99 cdr) Elevated is a journey through heartbreaking loss and the celebration of a spirit set free from a broken body. Track listing: 01 song for you (i’ll never forget) / 02 while they slept / 03 everytime i close my eyes / 04 elevated / 05 diwedd / 06 the wasteland... (more/buy)
	Stephen Philips - Fugue States Volume 1 (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) This musical exploration revolves around the idea of the Fugue State. Fugue, in this sense, not resembling the musical fugue, but rather the fugue state, being defined as: A neurological state in which a person denies memory of activities for a period of hours to weeks; to external appearances these activities were either completely normal or the person disappeared and traveled extensively; most are functional In other words, he has created music with a jarring sense of disorientation through the use of experimental themes, exotic textures, and ambient music.... (more/buy)
	Stephen Philips - Fugue States Volume 2 (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) The first exploration revolves around the idea of the Fugue State. Fugue, in this sense, not resembling the musical fugue, but rather the fugue state, being defined as: A neurological state in which a person denies memory of activities for a period of hours to weeks; to external appearances these activities were either completely normal or the person disappeared and traveled extensively; most are functional In other words, he has created music with a jarring sense of disorientation through the use of experimental themes, exotic textures, and ambient music.\" This release represents Volume 2 of these explorations and picks up right where Volume 1 left off... (more/buy)
	Stephen Philips and Peter Bolander - Lost Nightmares (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) Stephen Philips and Peter Bolander team up for the first time in what is essentially a exotic nightmare of sorts. Lots of experimental textures and disjointed sounds blend with micro ambiances to create these lost nightmares.... (more/buy)
	Drone Forest / Stephen Philips - Blurring the Edges (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) More than two years in the making, this first collaboration brings together five monarchs in drone. Drone meister Stephen Philips and fellow drone masters, Drone Forest, aka Ian Stewart, Mike Bowman, C. Reider, and Davie Blint. These talents seamlessly blend to create an ooze of textural goodness previously unheard on any level.... (more/buy)
	Deep Chill Network - Cyber Sleep 6 (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) Deep Chill Network return to their sleep roots with all new music done in the similar slow and chilled out trademark sound they pioneered almost 15 years ago. Deep atmospheric dream themes is the tone.... (more/buy)
	Deep Chill Network - Cyber Sleep 7 (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) Deep Chill Network return to their sleep roots with all new music done in the similar slow and chilled out trademark sound they pioneered almost 15 years ago. Deep atmospheric dream themes is the tone.... (more/buy)
	Lucette Bourdin - Drum-atic Atmospheres (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) This release again features Lucette Bourdin\'s trademark ambient style, and once again, she throws in some gentle beats and rhythms to help fill out the sound. This is a companion piece of sorts, and if you liked what you heard on Drums and Repercussions, you will find this album just as warm and welcoming.... (more/buy)
	Rigel Orionis - Creative Sociopathy (A Journey into the Mind of the Distant Future) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) Rigel Orionis returns for another CD full of tasty drones and exquisite minimal beauty. Deep, somber drones predominate and otherworldly textures ebb and flow throughout. (originally recorded in 2007). Additional mixing and mastering in 2010 by Stephen Philips.... (more/buy)
	Rigel Orionis - The Drone Tone (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) Rigel Orionis returns for another CD full of tasty drones and exquisite minimal beauty. Deep, somber drones predominate and otherworldly textures ebb and flow throughout. (originally recorded in 2007).... (more/buy)
	Perimeter - Beyond the Perimiter (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) This debut album from Perimeter explores gloomy soundscapes filled with exotic samples and atmospheric noises. This is an album for people who like their ambient dark and highly textured. Perimeter is 31 year old Andre Buter. After long time exposure to all kinds of electronic music and specifically ambient, all the way back in the earliest Vangelis and Jean Michel Jarre periods, Andre decided to create his own music. With a preference for all things dark and gloomy, he formed Perimeter to explore the boundaries of dark perception as he calls it.... (more/buy)
	Bolander - First Things Last (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) Composed and performed by Peter Bolander. This is Peter\'s second full-length CD on Dark Duck Records. Hot on the heels of his recent collaboration with Stephen Philips, titled: Lost Nightmares, Peter returns with another stellar set of ambient drone. This CD is another set of sublime minimal drone ambience with some beats thrown in for flavor... (more/buy)
	Palancar - Enlightenment (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) Darrell Burgan is a prolific artist hailing from Texas who releases electronic ambient music under the project name Palancar. He is also the founder and owner of internet radio station StillStream, commercial record label Blue Water Records, electronic soundware vendor Spirit Canyon Audio, and is a member of ambient groups Copal River and Cluster Balm. Finally, he is also the founder and owner of Earth Mantra Netlabel. Several years in the making, this CD showcases the vast skill that Darrell possesses behind the keyboard. There is a fair amount of soul-searching going on here, and Darrell really lets his guard down with this deeply personal statement.... (more/buy)
	L:|t - Falling Apart (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) L:|t is about that bug smear streak thingy on your windshield, the thumb prints left on the back of the iPod that won\'t go away no matter what, that little rattle your DVD player keeps making, the flickering street lamps and that weird, shiny gravel that accumulates at the edge of the interstate. Tiny things that don\'t matter at all. . . or matter quite a bit? Surrounded by a world that never seems to work out quite right, L:|t is a mix of melancholy melodies swaying to and fro and stuttering beats on the edge of breaking down. It\'s all falling apart around us. . . But it sure is fun to watch.... (more/buy)
	Oophoi - Whispers from the Noisy Void (Databloem category) (Price: $12.99) Re-mastered reissue of Oophoi's classic album. Compilation with tracks from Cryosphere, Lightnoise and World of Shadows Oophoi plays synths, samples, sampled voices, percussion, lap steel guitar, electronics.... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand – Circular Scripture (cdr) (Relaxed Machinery category) (Price: $9.99 cdr) The first release by the new Relaxed Machinery label, available on CDR only through the Hypnos store. Steve Brand is an artist who has come on strong in a hurry, releasing a lot of great work on the Hypnos Secret Sounds label, AtmoWorks, and now Relaxed Machinery... (more/buy)
	Mystified - Primal Mystification (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $9.99, ltd cdr) Mystified is a pseudonym for Thomas Park, an ambient/electronic musician who lives in the midwestern USA. He's been prolific under the Mystified name as well as the Mister Vapor project, but this is his first release with Hypnos Secret Sounds. Most recently, Mystified has collaborated with Nunc Stans on a release "One Thousand Dreams" on the Dataobscura label, and he has previously collaborated with Robin Storey (Rapoon) and Nigel Ayers (Nocturnal Emissions). One of the things we enjoy at Hypnos is helping expose listeners to artists they may not have heard before, and that includes even artists whose work has been released widely on a variety of labels. The work of Mystified, while elsewhere working with more pronounced electronic rhythms, here emphasizes deep, slow-moving textures. Primal Mystification includes subtle and restrained percussive elements but is definite geared toward the listener who loves deep, thick drone work. Mystified himself says of this recording: "Primal Mystification emerged from drone sounds, similar to the way we humans emerged from the primordial ooze. Oscillating ambient bell washes were created using field recordings and mystical effect processes, and then simple rhythmic and melodic phrases evolved from the primal material. Sometimes there is a change or development in the rhythmic material, and always there are changes in the drones, behind, as they shift and flow. Primal Mystification is a musical union of form and formlessness." Track listing, with mp3 sample clips: 01 > massive turning > 14:58 > mp3 02 > departing certainty > 13:26 > mp3 03 > not knowing where > 10:30 > mp3 04 > back to the primal > 11:22 > mp3... (more/buy)
	The Winterhouse - Sanctuary (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99 cdr) Sanctuary, the third Winterhouse collaboration, will entrance with its deep, flowing textures and rich expressive details. The five long pieces seem to engage cinematically, drawing sonic vistas and sending the listener drifting on excursions of discovery. Rich drone bases overlaid with strings, grainy pads, subtle melodies, and sonic gems of many kinds.... (more/buy)
	Robert Davies - Terrestre (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99 cdr) Terrestre (of the Earth) is an interpretation of the myriad details of a dappled and intimate earthly landscape ... an understated set of pastoral meditations that reveal a very mature and consistent artistry.... (more/buy)
	Spielerei & Mantacoup - Wichman and Other Pieces (Databloem category) (Price: $13.99) The Wichman Concert recorded live on March 13 2004 at Theatre Graff Wichman in Huizen, Holland, as part of the Alfa Centauri EM Festival series. Last 4 tracks are studio works... (more/buy)
	Spielerei - Publix (Databloem category) (Price: $13.99) Spielerei has a major flair, which thankfully he shares with those who choose to listen to this truly exquisite music. You likely won\'t find a better pure synth-music album... (more/buy)
	SGNL_FLTR - Exhalo (Databloem category) (Price: $13.99) Exhalo is packed with deep grooves, dense atmospheres and refined effects. This time around, the amount of genres mixed together is staggering, with warm ambient, cold techno, abstract electronica and gritty soundscapes seamlessly flowing together during the course of the album... (more/buy)
	Viridian Sun - Infinite In All Directions (Hypnos section) (Price: $10.99) 2009. Viridian Sun is a duo focusing on abstract improvisation, featuring Hypnos founder Mike Griffin, and Hypnos solo artist David Tollefson. Their last studio album Perihelion was released a full decade ago on Hypnos, though VS continued to record together and occasionally perform live. The new album Infinite In All Directions moves into slightly different sonic material, downplaying synthesizer electronics in favor of guitar and bass guitar, electronically treated and looped. The result combines sustained, blissful drones, along with occasionally strange, complex overlapping loops. Many Hypnos listeners have asked over the years when we'll release something new by Viridian Sun, and we now present an album that may be their best yet: Infinite In All Directions. Track listing with MP3 samples coming soon: 1 > infinite in all directions > 13:31 mp3 clip 2 > parallax drift > 07:13 mp3 clip 3 > four times I slept for a year > 09:46 mp3 clip 4 > travel at absolute zero > 05:03 mp3 clip 5 > 40 Hz emergence > 05:41 mp3 clip 6 > magnetars cast no shadow > 12:52 mp3 clip 7 > light years from here > 08:58 mp3 clip... (more/buy)
	relapxych.O - Ripples on the Surface of Time & Space / Last Industrial Estate Vol. 1 (Miscellaneous category) (Price: $9.99) You might recall Relapxych.0 (aka Anders Petersen from Sweden) on 2008's Hypnos compilation, Message From a Subatomic World. Here's a nwe split album on his own label, Ghosts Sounds. Pt. 1 relapxych.O - Ripples on the Surface of Time and Space. Pt. 2 Last Industrial Estate - Last Industrial Estates Vol. 1... (more/buy)
	Steve Roach - Afterlight (Steve Roach category) (Price: $13.99) This long-form piece delivers the listener deep inside a multi-dimensional realm of forming clouds, an endless expanse with no boundaries or sense of temporal limits. Amorphous strands of harmonic lumina emerge and recede in a constant unfolding and reconfiguring state for the duration of this pure atmospheric suspension.... (more/buy)
	Steve Roach - Immersion: Four (Steve Roach category) (Price: $13.99) No beginning, no end, designed for infinite playback mode, IMMERSION: FOUR is a steady state zone created specifically as a tone meditation, enhancing the living space as sonic incense. Gently immersive and especially effective at low volume, the non-dynamic nature of this space supports focused day and night activities. The Immersion series is perfect for creative states, sleeping, reading, long hours at the computer and other functions where traditional music could be considered invasive.... (more/buy)
	Resonant Drift - The Call (Resonant Drift category) (Price: $12.99) 2009. This new one has a beautiful Steve Roach-like flavor, likely due to the duo's recent study with Roach, as well as his tweaks and mastering of the final recording. Definitely recommended. "The Call is the new release from the duo of Bill Olien and Gary Johnson, known collectively as Resonant Drift. Combining synthesizers, guitars, percussion, ethnic instruments and field recordings, this deep and organic release explores ambient and atmospheric territory, and boasts expert mastering and sonic enhancements by Steve Roach at his world famous Timeroom studio." -Morpheus Music... (more/buy)
	Aspectee - Morben (miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Influenced by the human condition and the human experience, by humanity's fortune and misfortune, the soundscapes of Aspectee's Morben are varied, ranging from ambient to dark ambient to experimental, though the sounds remain forever blackened, and the moods heavy. Presented to you in digipak format, limited to 500 copies.... (more/buy)
	Innfallen - Three Days of Darkness (miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Intended to capture in sound the immense fear, but also the great hope, of those hiding indoors during this time, Innfallen offers their vision of the Catholic prophecy of Three Days of Darkness. Consisting of veteran Doyle Finley (of Invercauld) and talented newcomer Kevin Scala, Innfallen has composed a rich, illustrative tapestry of multi-layered soundscapes that is undeniably the soundtrack to this frightening prophecy.... (more/buy)
	Karsten Hamre - Through the Eyes of a Stranger (CD + DVD) (miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Format: CD in a DVD case. Karsten crafts desolate dark ambient sound structures, ornamented by sampled sounds and experimental textures. The end result of this process is an experience categorized perhaps too simply as dark ambient, though it more closely resembles a dark soundtrack to a movie, or to a life - as seen through the eyes of a stranger... Presented in a DVD case with professionally pressed CD and professionally printed artwork, limited to 1,000 copies. The first 500 copies are presented in a 2-disc DVD case with a professionally pressed bonus DVD (PAL format, may not play in NTSC players), also titled Through the Eyes of a Stranger, that takes the viewer on a visual journey of imagery used for live performances.... (more/buy)
	Dense Vision Shrine - Time Lost in Oblivion (CD + DVD) (miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Format: CD in a DVD case. Building upon a solid foundation of dark ambient, Dense Vision Shrine also employs sampled sounds and sparse rhythm to carefully design the listening experience of a realm where time itself has stopped, of a blackened voyage into oblivion. Presented in a DVD case with professionally pressed CD and professionally printed artwork, limited to 1,000 copies. The first 500 copies are presented in a 2 disc DVD case with a professionally pressed bonus DVD (PAL format, may not play in NTSC players), also titled Time Lost in Oblivion, that takes the viewer on a visual journey of imagery used for live performances.... (more/buy)
	Parks - Hidden (Infraction category) (Price: $14.99) Parks is Russian ambient/electronic artist Igor Bystrov who has been working on his craft for nearly 15 years. Hidden may be his most accomplished and varied work to date. Sitting somewhere in the midst of the great 90\'s ambient artists, the (rather) new wave of Russian electronic artists all the while admiring from a distance the Kompakt pop-ambient of this decade - Parks seamless blend of it all has culminated in a brilliant finish. Presented in a 6 panel digipak... (more/buy)
	Eluder - The Most Beautiful Blue (Infraction category) (Price: $14.99) "The careful choreography of retreat and remotion is what Patrick Benolkin is about, so you won't be surprised when walls within and without come down, dissolved by the drift inside The Most Beautiful Blue. Eluder offers here a sonic solution in which thoughts, mirroring the music's mood movements, may dissolve, float free, and finally submerge, without fear of being taken down." -Alan Lockett... (more/buy)
	Loren Dent - Anthropology Vol. 1 (Infraction category) (Price: $14.99) "This album is like a soundtrack to life itself- one of joy, love, fear, pain, loss, grieving, euphoria and one which transcends time. Wondrous layers of sound are rich and constantly evolving, always emotional and hypnotic. Loren\'s tools are both analogue and digital, and his use of both is a joy to behold." -Norman Records... (more/buy)
	Bass Communion - Bass Communion II/III (2CD) (Soleilmoon category) (Price: $20.99) Steve Wilson's (Porcupine Tree, No-Man) second release as Bass Communion creating a distinctive and emotionally resonant electro-organic fusion of ambient loop music from the roots of Brian Eno, Terry Riley and Paul Schutze... (more/buy)
	O Yuki Conjugate - OYC25 (CD + DVD) (Soleilmoon category) (Price: $20.99) \ Lovingly remixed by producer Rob Jenkins – is OYC25, five tracks of post-industrial, fourth world-ish, dirty ambience. OYC25 finds the band in fine form, with an abundance of dub-like bass, micro processed rhythms and plangent pads. The package includes a full length DVD of live recordings and rare footage that offer a unique insight into the band’s history, together with a complete alternate mix of the album. The whole thing comes in a gatefold sleeve beautifully designed by Fitzroy&Finn and includes a specially commissioned essay on the band by Dr Philip Shaw, Senior Lecturer in English at Leicester University. NOTE: The DVD is a region-free double-sided disc with NTSC on one side and PAL on the other. It is compatible with all DVD players worldwide.... (more/buy)
	Rapoon - Melancholic Songs of the Desert (Soleilmoon category) (Price: $14.99) A retreat into the one place that no government has yet found a way into, the free and open spaces of the mind. Spontaneous and mediative reflections looking for an inner peace in a world made ugly by hatred and war.... (more/buy)
	Alio Die - Under An Holy Ritual (Soleilmoon category) (Price: $14.99) Reissue of this classic, early Alio Die album. "Multi-layered sonic densities that can evoke the air of ancient storms one minute, then ebb like an immense black ocean the next. This knows how to alter moods with both thick electronic pulses and prehistoric scrapes of mysterious percussions. Cerebral, spooky, and thought provoking meditative/ambient music that harkens from a ritualistic viewpoint." -E/I Magazine... (more/buy)
	Seren Ffordd - Stellar Nurseries (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $9.99, ltd cdr) 2009. Stellar Nurseries is the first in a series of Seren Ffordd reissues planned to continue over the coming year or so. These recordings, by an artist whose work is always mysterious and sometimes ominous, were previously released on the Umbra and Penumbra labels operated (by Hypnos artist Oophoi) out of Italy, though the artist himself resides in Wales. He first connected with Hypnos on the compilation CD Sounds of a Universe Overheard, to which he contributed a track, and Hypnos Secret Sounds released his album Veils, Shadows. This recording exhibits a pleasing serenity, a great example of the artist's characteristic combination of dark and light elements into a balanced, deep contrast. Stellar Nurseries is a continuous track 1:01:02 in duration, with the following figurative "sections" (with mp3 sample clips): 1. Out of the Void mp3 2. Storm Movement mp3 3. Spiral Dance mp3 4. Floating, Dreaming mp3... (more/buy)
	Atomine Elektrine - Archimetrical Universe (miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Archimetrical Universe showcases Peter Andersson's dissection of the sky, a caeserean section that births massive, geometrically perfect sonic diversions, all spheres and angles, burnished metal dreams and pristine sonic caresses that reconfigure sound into smooth surfaces. To counterbalance the exactness of the sonic development, light rhythms emerge and huge slabs of disrupting tones puncture. Quite possibly Peter\'s finest release yet!... (more/buy)
	A Challenge of Honour - Ashigaru Revealed (miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Dedicated to warrior’s traditions of medieval Japan. Graceful and epic cocktail of atmospheric neoclassical passages, Japanese drums and rhythms.... (more/buy)
	Desiderii Marginis - Years Lend a Golden Charm (miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) To gain a deeper understanding of what is, it is necessary to examine what was – to go to the sources and the origins. With the emergence of this brand new offering by Desiderii Marginis, Years Lend a Golden Charm, we are invited to experience the very birth of what is now a well established and worldwide recognized project within the dark-ambient industrial scene. The contents of the new album is made up of some 73 minutes of material from the first three tape releases from 1993. Highly sought after by collectors but only available in a mere dozen of handmade copies, these songs are now finally made available to a greater audience. When you listen to the music with the knowledge that hindsight brings - it is obvious that these are the roots and the foundations, not only of the first full length album Songs Over Ruins, but of every successive release up to the latest Seven Sorrows. In 1993 there was no set course, no long term plan – and still, maybe it couldn’t have turned out any other way?... (more/buy)
	Aghast - Hexerei Im Zwielicht Der Finsternis (miscellaneous category) (Price: $12.99) Hexerei Im Zwielicht Der Finsternis is dark and gloomy ambience, played in a classical dark wave vein. Minimalism in musical content, compensated by spooky and ice-cold vocals that will haunt you. Macabre enchantresses in lovely disguise will seduce you to end your life and take you to their ghastly realm from which you will never rise. Hear gods cry and angels fall. Listen to the horror and beauty. Let Aghast bewitch you!... (more/buy)
	Atheus - Soundscapes and Drones (miscellaneous category) (Price: $9.99) "Stunning full-length album from Atheus, I have been looking forward to this release ever since the first tentative audio samples appeared via myspace what must be more than twelve months ago now. So here it is, arrived only today and I have played this album through from start to finish three times already, it really is that good. Mysterious, intrusive, threatening ambience, almost drone-like in parts, and sounds totally amazing when adjusted correctly and played very, very loud. Thoroughly mesmerising, I can whole-heartedly say this is one of the most outstanding albums of year and certainly in my top three! Breathtaking." --interstellarsounds.com "Unique all Ambient & Drones release from one of the best Minimal Dub project around." --Cycliclaw.com Track listing: The Sound of Dark Matter Stella Mortis Laudanum Nacht Soundscape One Terra Incognita The Magic Mountain Vox Obscura Drone 37Hz Adagio for Drone... (more/buy)
	Vir Unis - The Winter Ghost (CDR-EP) (AtmoWorks label) (Price: $11.99 cdr-EP) 2009. 38 minute EP-length release. From the darkest depths of a winter yet to come, AtmoWorks presents the latest release from owner and founder Vir Unis, "The Winter Ghost". Created in the vein of 2007's "Return of the Locust Queen", "The Winter Ghost" is a single 38 minute track made up of several distinct parts. From the frozen drones of the opening bars, to angelic voices and detuned piped organs - each individual section blends seamlessly into the next creating an ever-shifting, ever-changing wall of sound. John describes this piece as a self-reflective journey into the long thoughts that haunt the self in this darkest of seasons. It is an expose into the depth of winter, and the isolation that often accompanies it. Listening, it is easy to imagine St. John of the Cross' Dark Night of the Soul, where spiritual loneliness and desolation take hold. Track Listing (click for mp3 sample clips): Sample 1 Sample 2 Sample 3.... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand - She Covers the Sky (CDR) (AtmoWorks label) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. New release from Atmoworks, of which they say: Once again, Steve Brand emerges from his Mac-based musical cocoon to bring us more of his singular art! AtmoWorks is thrilled to bring you "She Covers the Sky", Steve's 5th solo release since the rebirth of the label, and his 9th overall release with us since mid-2008. Steve had this to say about his latest work. "Early in 2009, I had a recurring idea to make music that was dedicated to honoring the return to Earth of the divine feminine, or goddess energy. Female energy. When I have ideas that keep coming up over and over, as this one did, I never over-analyze them, as they find a way to come to life one way or another. Central to the idea of the return of the divine feminine, is the idea that about 10,000 years ago there was a shift from matriarchal societies to patriarchal societies. Some say that this shift of emphasis was due to abuses of power during the more matriarchal period, but now the sacred feminine is returning to Earth—not to seize power once again, but to restore balance between the two energies. This album, whose title refers to the Egyptian sky goddess Nuit or Nut, is characterized by subdued melodies, drifting dreamworld keyboard textures, bells, gongs, voice, and sounds from Mother Earth Herself." Hands down, Steve Brand is putting out some of the most consistently excellent ambient and atmospheric music on the market today, and "She Covers the Sky" is a spectacular addition to an already outstanding legacy. Track Listing (click title to hear sample mp3 of first 3 tracks): Beginning of a New Phase, Restoration The Eternal She Creation: Enveloping, Always Moving, Multiverses Coverer of the Sky.... (more/buy)
	Various Artists - AtmoWorks Presents: Compiled (cdr) (AtmoWorks label) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. Here was have the first AtmoWorks compilation. AtmoWorks owner Matt McDonough (MjDawn) had this to say about this new and exciting venue for the label. "We at AtmoWorks are very excited to bring together a collaboration that speaks about our label, artists and vision. This compilation is the first in what will be a series of "AtmoWorks Presents:" albums. Our hope is that we will be able to showcase our established artists, but also bring light to new talents we are exploring. You can look forward to future releases involving these great artists." A seamless blend of styles and influences carefully mastered and molded together by the tag-team of Vir Unis and MjDawn, 'AtmoWorks Presents: Compiled' is a wide-ranging set sure to please the most discerning electo-heads. Track Listing Gydja - Noaide Bunk_Data - Bytecode_Escape Interstitial - Iterative dreamSTATE - To Wound the Autumnal City Igneous Flame - Lyke Wake Dirge åpne sinn - twinewheel Galactic Anthems - System Sentinels The Elf Machine - The Citizen Dr. Victor - Opening Mantra (DiAnMa) MjDawn - Numerical Alchemy Steve Brand - Lost in the Call (Here Comes a Sea) Vir Unis - The Magic Mountain.... (more/buy)
	The Elf Machine - In Living Stereo & Citizens of the Anthropocene (3 cdr) (AtmoWorks label) (Price: $22.99 3-cdr) 2009. Two new "separate but together" releases by The Elf Machine. CITIZENS OF THE ANTHROPOCENE (1cdr) Taking nearly three years to complete their follow up to the much critically acclaimed album "I/O", the elves finally emerged from the studio with "Citizens of the Anthropocene", the first release in this dual set. This new album takes a journey through the synthetic and over-medicated lives of the current epoch in which we live, the anthropocene. What does it mean to be human and living in this age? All ideologies are political and religion-based and the experience we have in communicating with our political systems is mediated by an entity which was once called journalism and is now a hyper vigilant 24/7 global brain which spews forth bit streams and memes into the collective consciousness which is then consumed and regurgitated as new archetypal forms. What does it mean to live an organic or synthetic life? What is the difference ultimately since all originated from the earth or were produced by organic forms? These were all questions raised by the elves as the explored their inner systems in the dark recesses of their basement studio.... IN LIVING STEREO (2cdrs) The second release (two discs in itself), which is packaged with "Citizens of the Anthropocene", is "In Living Stereo". This album is a collection of three long excerpts from two different live events by The Elf Machine. The first show was in 2004 and was a live internet event hosted by Vir Unis on AtmoStreams. The second show was in 2008 at Illinois Northwestern University's radio station, 89.3FM WNUR. The set was performed on Phonaut's late Friday night program. The elves delivered some heavy duty glitch/freeform beatscapes late into the night and the show was captured by Phonaut recording directly to CD, so expect high fidelity recordings on "In Living Stereo". Track listing, with MP3 previews, disc 1 Shadow Response Manifestation re-uptake Spanning Structural Units extracellular loop_5 L-DOPA The Citizen Track listing, with MP3 previews, disc 2 WNUR edit - Volume 1 Track listing, with MP3 previews, disc 3 WNUR edit - Volume 2 AtmoStreams edit - Volume 3.... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand & Disturbed Earth - The First Day Unnamed(cdr) (AtmoWorks label) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. The fourth installment of collaborative works between two of our most prolific and creative artists - Dean Richards (aka Disturbed Earth) and Steve Brand. On "The First Day Unnamed", Dean and Steve have created a brooding and many-layered longform masterpiece. Steve had this to say about the release. "This album literally grew out of the parts and pieces of my trilogy collaboration with Dean/Disturbed Earth that came out in late 2008 and early 2009. That said, this is not a continuation or regurgitation of those works. In the previous trilogy, Dean took my sounds and twisted, bent and re-sculpted them with his own sensibilities and processes, adding his own sounds into the mix. With "First Day...," I have re-cycled and re-processed some pieces that Dean created that didn't make it into the original series, ran them through my own processes and internal filters, adding my own sounds (once again) along the way. The title was inspired by the idea that we strive to encage and cordon off the world by being able to label and define nearly everything without and within us. In doing so, we create the "known," when in reality, much remains unknown, because in truth, we have only investigated that which is most comfortable to us. This disk is characterized by deep terrestrial drones and textures, hints of melody, churning subterranean machinery, the occasional calls of weird animals, distant flute, gongs, and voices." Track listing: 1. The First Day Unnamed - 1:11:27 - mp3 excerpt.... (more/buy)
	Birds of Tin - Altarwise (New - Diophantine Label category) (Price: $11.99) 2009. This is the latest release on the interesting (new to us) label discovery, Diophantine Discs, from which we'll soon have other items available. The two lengthy tracks of Altarwise were recorded in late 2004 and remastered earlier this year. The first track is a 30-minute experimental work that gradually moves through a wide range of sounds (echoing chimes, mysterious noises, subdued clanking, drones). The second piece is an epic 46-minute composition of deep ambient/drone music that manages to float freely through the listener\'s imagination while keeping his attention. While many modern day experimental artists have moved on into the computer realm, Birds of Tin has remained true to the experimental sound of tape loops, lo-fi samplers, and collections of unique toy instruments running through small fx boxes. The sound of the work may have become more cohesive and seamless over the years, but the methods have largely remained the same.... (more/buy)
	Ryonkt - Small Conversations (Experimedia category) (Price: $11.99) 2009. "Ryonkt's Small Conversations is a modern classical ambient masterpiece in four lengthy movements. Soft spoken and gentle Small Conversations embodies all that ambient music is meant to be through perfectly crafted works of delicate beauty".... (more/buy)
	Sylvie Walder - Moments (Experimedia category) (Price: $11.99) 2009. Experimedia presents the first public release of French sound artist Sylvie Walder. Sylvie's Moments pulls one into delicate and intimate moments in time. Drawing from a palette of introversion, nostalgia, absence, longing, and la presence du sacre Sylvie creates a uniquely evocative sound through the intimate tones of her piano as the driving force behind her emotive sonic constructs. Moments is packaged in Experimedia's signature custom designed six panel tall-slim pack and is limited to 150 copies.... (more/buy)
	Ian Hagwood - The Great Allure (Experimedia category) (Price: $11.99) 2009. A very personal and heartfelt album, The Great Allure amasses six passionate movements into a tribute to the memories of traveling by train. Inverted pianos wrapped in a blanket of distant fog seen peering through a train window dripping with wiped away condensation. Forehead against glass with a melancholy gaze towards the passing landscape. Broken voice and hand claps layer subtle nods to Reich. The Great Allure is packaged in Experimedia's signature custom designed six panel tall-slim pack and is limited to 150 copies... (more/buy)
	Shinobu Nemoto - Improvisations #1 (Experimedia category) (Price: $11.99) 2009. An epic album by Japanese artist Shinobu Nemoto, Improvisations #1 showcases Shinobu's ability to create beautiful and interesting sonic textures using minimal means. Using only an electric guitar, stomp boxes, and recording to a 4-track with no overdubs Improvisations #1 delivers 5 massive pieces. Recorded in January of 2009 each piece initially soft and subtle build and layer gradually into powerful and intense guitar noise drones. Improvsations #1 is packaged in Experimedia's signature custom designed six panel tall-slim pack and is limited to 150 copies... (more/buy)
	Billy Gomberg + Offthesky - Flyover Sound (Experimedia category) (Price: $11.99) 2009. Flyover Sound is the collaborative effort of Billy Gomberg and offthesky. The pair bring together their individually unique sounds to create a rich and beautiful album. Complex drone and glitch arrangements play alongside acoustic guitar and subtle field recordings. Flyover Sound is packaged in Experimedia's signature custom designed six panel tall-slim pack is limited to 250 copies, and features artwork/photography by Jason Corder (offthesky).... (more/buy)
	The Circular Ruins - Before the Colors Deepened (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) The music of Before The Colors Deepened drifts between a deep, expansive, and sometimes ominous-sounding, experimental spacemusic, and a more tender, often melancholic, classical style of slowly developing melodic structures and subtle layering. The result is a complex and imaginative series of immersive soundworlds that reward attentive listening, and that will take you on a journey only hinted at in the individual track titles.... (more/buy)
	Nunc Stans - Meridian (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) Nunc Stans has always been inspired by far northern landscapes and the subjective states that accompany or are induced by them. Much of this collection is a sonic analog of those landscapes ... drawn in sound across the silence. A sublime journey through expansive soundworlds, rich with detail, immersive atmospheres, and an underlying grandeur. \"... (more/buy)
	Robert Davies - Gallery Of Spirits (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) Ethereal dreamscapes and flowing apparitions. These drone-based pieces are like wandering the shadowy gardens of a mythic underworld.\" The striking cover images are based on Robert\'s own collage and paint artworks. CD edition contains special bonus artwork photograph... (more/buy)
	Lammergeyer - Beginning To End (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) Beginning To End is a work of subtlety and considerable beauty. The album flows in a very visual, cinematic, and sometimes orchestral vein. If you like musical, expressive, ambient explorations that do not shy away from melody or from sonic invention then be sure to give this fine release a listen.... (more/buy)
	Nunc Stans - The Unnamable (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) The Unnamable is a broad, sweeping work of often immense vistas and beatless atmospheres. These dynamic and engaging dronescapes reveal a darker and more intense Nunc Stans, one aimed more at transcendence than description. Immersive and sonically rich, this release will appeal to listeners of Steve Roach and related deep ambient drone works.\" Performed by Anthony Paul Kerby using a variety of synthesisers, acoustic guitar, and studio processing.... (more/buy)
	Nunc Stans and Mystified - One Thousand Dreams (Blue Oasis/Dataobscura category) (Price: $13.99) An immersive set of richly detailed dreamscapes that flow and shift with a sophisticated ease and engaging lyric beauty. Expect a haunting mix of grainy drone, sonic curiosities, and occasional treated field recording, all bound together by exquisite drawn-out melodic lines.... (more/buy)
	Wolfskin O Ajuntar das Sombras (malignant category) (Price: $13.99) A masterpiece of shadowy atmospheres and drifting currents, featuring multiple layers of archaic sounds, foggy, nebulous textures, and ritual invocations, perfectly combined to form a release of intense depth and complexity... (more/buy)
	Phragments - Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood (malignant category) (Price: $13.99) Equipped with an enriched sonic palate, Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood mixes forceful brass and dark orchestral strings with rolls of powerful tribal percussion, somber wind instrumentation, ominous atmospheres, industrial clangor, and a strong and commanding vocal presence... (more/buy)
	Phaenon - Submerged (malignant category) (Price: $13.99) Visually and sonically enveloping, this is an album of space and texture, slowly revealing a psychoactive soundscape of majestic, arcing timbres, circadian buzzes, and expansive drones. Heavy, and cosmically weighty in the beginning, Submerged evolves into something more minimalist and serene, radiating a celestial beauty, yet becoming even more bleak and suffocating as it progresses over it‘s 66 minute time frame. Experienced from start to finished, there’s a palpable sense of drifting and drowning, of being carried away into an endless, interstellar vacuum... (more/buy)
	Hyios - Consuetudines (malignant category) (Price: $13.99) 7 lengthy compositions of cold ritual drones, arching trajectories, and visceral descents into subterranean caverns, where rich, kinetic textures and deep resonant tones move and morph in a fluid, serpentine fashion, sprinkled with the debris of an ancient culture and something more otherworldly and primordial... (more/buy)
	Terra Sancta - Disintegration (malignant category) (Price: $13.99) Disintegration pushes the levels of intensity to new heights, featuring four long and texturally turbulent emissions of formidable power and depth. With it’s enormous washes of stormy drones and billowing, multi-layered atmospheres, these are tracks that grow and build to such a degree they seem to collapse and erode under their own weight, strewing particles into a vast horizon and creating a broad panorama of ever changing desert colored hues.... (more/buy)
	Caul & Kirchenkampf - Sleep - Night - Death (malignant category) (Price: $13.99) A soundscape for late night reflections, full of quiet, whispering drones, cosmic flutterings, arching climatic tones and textures that ascend and descend in a delicate interplay between beauty and bleak desolation.... (more/buy)
	Eidvlon - Idolatriae (malignant category) (Price: $13.99) 7 tracks of ultra bleak, abstract atmospheres, with sounds and textures that seem to seep from catacomb walls and come slithering out of subterranean chambers. Certainly, this can be classified as a dark ambient record, but at it’s core, it’s more than just that simple classification. There’s a gritty, more jagged edge here, with tetonic shifts, deep rumblings, and crackling, climatic squalls buried under a bed of ghostly reverb and haunting tonal resonance... (more/buy)
	Matt Borghi - The Phantom Light (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $9.99, ltd cdr) 2009. The Phantom Light is the third release in our Matt Borghi reissue series. Originally issued in an edition of only 30 copies in 2006, this Hypnos Secret Sounds reissue will be the first opportunity for this recording to be heard by most Borghi listeners. The four long pieces exhibit Borghi's characteristic simplicity and restraint. Matt says: The Phantom Light is a work that’s comprised four compositions with titles derived from some of the most remote lighthouses on the northern Great Lakes. The works are inspired by sailor’s tales of being adrift on The Great Lakes during storms, and catastrophic weather. Sailors, looking out on the horizon for a sign of life, a light of hope, aimed their ships towards the safety of these phantom lighthouses hoping to get to a safe harbor. Often times these phantom lighthouses just lead to a rocky shoal and a watery death. These “phantom” lights have been a thing of myth for as long as The Great Lakes freshwater seas have been sailed. In many ways, The Phantom Light is a sequel to Huronic Minor, as Great Lakes lore, and Matt Borghi’s own experiences on The Great Lakes were the creative impetus for this work. Track list: 1. Ile Aux Gales (17.54) mp3 2. Manistee North Pierhead (16.33) mp3 3. Seul Choix Point (21.01) mp3 4. North Manitou Island Shoal (20.28) mp3... (more/buy)
	Michael Mantra - Mobius Logic (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) Evocative and crepuscular atmospheres, tenuous sounds from the ink color pastel, minimalistic melodies acclimatized on background of discreet but wrapping field recordings... Evoked and surrealistic soft sonorous landscapes with warm synthetic sounds, mixed to crystalline natural noises, concrete sounds, breaths. A fascinating classic and quiet album of ambient music.... (more/buy)
	Michael Mantra - A/B Illuminated Music (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) A/B Illuminated Music DVD-R provides a visual gradient to the audio-CD (of A/B). Beautiful video art... with a higher purpose. The visuals here provide a true change in state-of-consciousness, and conversion of negative yin emotions into a more positive yang emotion. For maximum meditative state, watch this DVD while listening with stereo headphones. This DVD is dedicated to world peace for all sentient beings.... (more/buy)
	Aube - Metal on Metal (2CD) (silentes category) (Price: $16.99) Alchemical secrets and the magic of metallic materials, of their acoustic characters, and the possible technological manipulations on the sounds that are possible to pull out... Resonances, mantric vibrations, hypnotics bell rings, sounds of cymbals, plates, rings... Tubular elements are used or more ordinary and simple metallic objects of common use are bowed or scraped. Aube acquires the sounds of transforming essence... decomposing and recomposing the shape... Fragmenting, expanding, stratifying and elaborating the sonorous matter, constructs complex wafts, resounding weaves carpets, interlaces thin threads of metallic tensions, crumbles and agglomerates acoustic particles, leaves to flowing, reverberating, harmonic drones.... (more/buy)
	Aube - Le Syndrome Aquatique (2CD) (silentes category) (Price: $16.99) \ This is the long awaited reissue of one of the best Aube works originally titled AQUA SYNDROME, published about 10 years ago by MANIFOLD records. The new reissue includes the original album with a bonus track and a bonus live CD. LE SYNDROME AQUATIQUE is an impressive job of deconstruction and resetting of sonorous material to the work of Aube, this particularly extended in the duration, treaty and expanded time, much to be proposed in a rich edition in double CD. Aube puts molding on and models fragments of concrete sounds of aquatic derivation transforming them in unknown drones, noises, pads, loops, rhythms and mechanics, constructing a fantastic sonorous tapestry of valuable invoice and incredible impact... (more/buy)
	Aube - Reworks Nimh Vol. 1 (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) Ethnic-electronic sound sources transfigured and remodeled into completely new sonic lifeforms with state-of-the-art audio processing algorithms. Residual fragments of the original sound-sources occasionally appear in the mix like aquatic fauna swimming to the surface for a brief second. A magnum opus in four movements. Intensely fascinating work by the unparalleled master of experimental sound design. AUBE is peerless. A minimal mosaic of sound that takes the listener on a slow-motion expedition into the very fabric of tone. A ocean of sound-grains for the listened to swim in. Spoken language doesn\'t (yet) contain words that properly describe these sounds... an absolute must have for the experimental music devotee... (more/buy)
	Nimh - The Unkept Secrets (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) \ After few months of distance from the escape of The Missing Tapes and the relative Rework by Aube, Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio) sets aside the ethnic-lysergic visions that have characterized the previous album and continues along the distance of sonorous search and fascinating experimentation electronic, already undertaken with works such as The Impossible Days and Subterranean Thoughts. Nimh expands the range of sounds and instruments, revealing his own secrets through a new, dark but stylistically unclassifiable CD, in which he arranges with extraordinary originality and in an absolutely personal way elements of drone music, dark ambient, electronics, ritual, ethnic, field recordings, enriching every track with the recurrent presence of evocative sounds of electric guitar in varied filtered and elaborated way... (more/buy)
	Nimh - Subterranean Thoughts (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) This album showcases a kaleidoscope of many different sounds, from the lysergic visions of Rewind to the cinematic suggestions of Recovered Memories, from the tight and dark atmospheres of Back to Laudomia to the ritual elements of Perpetual Cycles, from the rhythmic distortions of Subterranean Thoughts to the hypnotic stasis of The Liquid Dream and the lyrism of the title-track reprise at the end of the disc... (more/buy)
	Nimh - The Missing Tapes (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) Stratospheric sounds from another dimension, where multi-cultural sound-worlds collide. Processed electronic emulations of traditional Thai (and other indigenous) instruments, esoteric percussion, breathing, drones, feedback, shortwave radio, disembodied voices floating in air, and hazy field recordings all combine is a most intoxicating manner. With THE MISSING TAPES, NIMH returns to a more adventurous style, pushing the boundaries of sonic innovation past anything that we\'ve heard before. An amazing 50+ minute sonic-travelogue of electroacoustic experiments.... (more/buy)
	Nimh / Nefelheim - Whispers from the Ashes (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) Ideally inspired by the Inquisition era, like some titles of the tracks may suggest, Whispers from the Ashes presents Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio) and Nefelheim joined together for the production of a dark oriented CD that alternates obscure and haunting atmospheres with more gloomy and sometimes dramatic and highly evocative episodes... In a blend of low frequencies, metallic sounds, echoes of distant voices and human screams, whispers, concrete noises, ritual processions, suddenly an acoustic guitar chord, some reverberate piano notes, the sound of falling rain, bits of thundering percussions emerge... Like in a disquieting voyage to a far away past, in a stakes and witches age, featuring persecutions of heretics and superstition..... (more/buy)
	Maurizio Bianchi - Dead Colours (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) \"incredibly dark, melancholic and tough, in the vein of David Lynch\'s atmospheres... Fantastic!... (more/buy)
	Maurizio Bianchi - Menstruum Regles (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) \ Continuous loops, raw unexpected cuts, noise alternated to musical parts, single sounds, drones, notes of piano, buzzes, soft pads, electric current workers... Two long traces, 75 minutes, a listening experience over any edge and reliable definition.... (more/buy)
	Maurizio Bianchi - The Self-Portrait of M.B. (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) An unusual self-portrait of Maurizio Bianchi in a minimal and introspective version, a discreet sonic self-portrait, elaborated with soft and nearly abstract electronic sketches, cyclical waves, tangles of intersected sounds, stratified, continuously changing, manipulated and molded through uses of effects, filters, reverbs, choruses, delay... Expanded paces, rarefied and apparently quiet atmospheres, but at the same time always full of a constant sense of gravity and heaviness, of vulnerability, always on the extreme border of the abyss that leads towards the unknown, the dark, the not to be defined and the mystery.... (more/buy)
	Frequency In Cycles Per Second & Maurizio Binachi / M.B. - Der Abgrund (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) \ Music of the great dynamics and great dramatic mood, powerful, aggressive sounds, drones, sour electronic rumors, but also deep sounds underground, more static parts, dark and expanded atmospheres, dark and buried rhythmic mechanics movements, echoes of reverberating metals.... (more/buy)
	Rod Modell - Plays Michael Mantra (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) An unusual self-portrait of Maurizio Bianchi in a minimal and introspective version, a discreet sonic self-portrait, elaborated with soft and nearly abstract electronic sketches, cyclical waves, tangles of intersected sounds, stratified, continuously changing, manipulated and molded through uses of effects, filters, reverbs, choruses, delay... Expanded paces, rarefied and apparently quiet atmospheres, but at the same time always full of a constant sense of gravity and heaviness, of vulnerability, always on the extreme border of the abyss that leads towards the unknown, the dark, the not to be defined and the mystery.... (more/buy)
	Spielerei & Mantacoup - Cold War (silentes category) (Price: $13.99) An enthralling cosmic excursion, utilizing a universe of electronic tones, binary codes, digital trances, visionary software, and microchip meditations... utilizing sequencer riffs, electronic swells, tight rhythmic programming, and pulsing analog arpeggios to pull listeners throughout the frontiers of space and time. Melodic, soft sounds expand and gently caress the listener while submerging them into vast digital panoramas. Propulsion through the science of sound. Seven fantastic tracks realized during a collaboration between Dennis Knopper (of SPIELEREI) and Jeroen Vermeent (of MANTACOUP)... (more/buy)
	Wintersilence - Transmission Fields (2 CD) (silentes category) (Price: $16.99) Review by Auralpressure.com: "a heady blend of music so full of love and the lust for life that the joy it brings is unsurpassable. The drifting sweeping passages brings forth a message of hope and joy in these darkened times of unrest and uncertainty. A simple drum beat is forged through the layers of iridescent patterns of electronic waves creating the ultimate dreamscapes in which to lose oneself. Journeying onward you encounter subtle drones and shaman chants that take you into another dimension freeing the burdened soul. Every one of the nineteen tracks are so varied and different in their execution and yet they meld together seamlessly into one complete portion of music that eludes description."... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand/Ishq - Spiritual Science / The Voice from Home (double-cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $19.99, double-cdr) 2009. A great new 2-disc collaboration between the recently-prolific Steve Brand, and Ishq (aka Matt Hillier). AtmoWorks says: AtmoWorks is thrilled to offer a two disc collaboration between AW veteran Steve Brand and electronic music mainstay Matt Hiller (aka Ishq). Steve had this to say about the releases, and how they found their way into reality. 'I've been an Ishq fan for about 3-4 years now, as well as all the other mutations, Elve, and Colourform. I found his work as part of my complete indulgence in the Ultimae label, when Ishq kept showing up in the "If you like this, you'll like this" area. I bought "Orchid" and was hooked. I immediately loved his delicate atmospheres and unique beats, his intuitive and spiritual approach to music, which really felt like home to me. We share a common belief in the healing nature of sound, which we both weave into our work. At the time, Matt offered several free downloads of loops, so I used a few in a longform piece I was/am working on called, "Pale Blue Orb." I sent Matt a copy and he responded with a very nice email. I decided at that moment, just to ask if we was interested in a collaboration. A few weeks later I was thrilled to receive an entire DVD of unique material in the mail from Cornwall England, and here we are. Effortless and organic. I considered releasing these as two separate albums, but I really feel that they are companion pieces that augment one another, almost needing to be heard together. These disks are a very nice co-mingling of the Ishq sound and mine own. Probably a bit murkier and darker than Ishq, but you can still very much hear the Ishq-ness within the sounds, along with my own treatments and personal aesthetics. Disk 1, "Spiritual Science" consists of 3 long tracks of vaporous atmospheres and spaces. Disk 2, "The Voice From Home" is longform drifting, lilting, diaphanous soundscape that times in at just over 50 minutes, meant for low-volume repeated play.' From our perspective, this is simply a brilliant combination of styles and textures - taking the very best of each of these accomplished artists' talents and blending them together into something wholly new and wonderful. Track Listing - Disc 1 Soft Temples Flame of Nuit Nature is Sung Track Listing - Disc 2 The Voice from Home... (more/buy)
	AtmoWorks Presents - Compiled (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. Here was have the first AtmoWorks compilation. AtmoWorks owner Matt McDonough (MjDawn) had this to say about this new and exciting venue for the label. "We at AtmoWorks are very excited to bring together a collaboration that speaks about our label, artists and vision. This compilation is the first in what will be a series of "AtmoWorks Presents:" albums. Our hope is that we will be able to showcase our established artists, but also bring light to new talents we are exploring. You can look forward to future releases involving these great artists." A seamless blend of styles and influences carefully mastered and molded together by the tag-team of Vir Unis and MjDawn, 'AtmoWorks Presents: Compiled' is a wide-ranging set sure to please the most discerning electo-heads. Track Listing Gydja - Noaide Bunk_Data - Bytecode_Escape Interstitial - Iterative dreamSTATE - To Wound the Autumnal City Igneous Flame - Lyke Wake Dirge åpne sinn - twinewheel Galactic Anthems - System Sentinels The Elf Machine - The Citizen Dr. Victor - Opening Mantra (DiAnMa) MjDawn - Numerical Alchemy Steve Brand - Lost in the Call (Here Comes a Sea) Vir Unis - The Magic Mountain ... (more/buy)
	Craig Padilla / Skip Murphy - Analog Destination (groove category) (Price: $13.99) \"Craig Padilla and Skip Murphy have made in this work a kind of space electronic music which turns out to be emotional and enigmatic. Inspired by the analogic sonority, they have composed a series of themes that will no doubt attract the lovers of the purest line of Space Music. The structure of Analog Destination consists of diffused melodies that come and go, floating environments that surround these melodies, powerful sequencers, and sound effects that in some passages are an important part of the ambiance. There also are moments of experimentation, yet always keeping to the most melodic aspects of the music.\" -Edgar Kogler... (more/buy)
	Ron Boots - Beyond the Boundaries of Twilight (Groove category) (Price: $13.99) \"Musician Ron Boots did several planetarium concerts in the past seven years or so, but it never came to a cd-release. Beyond the Boundaries of Twilight, released at Ron’s Planetarium concert in Bochum, Germany on May 24, fills this gap, offering 71 minutes of both atmospheric and dynamic but always captivating music. The background of the conceptual music is told by Ron on the second piece The Story. Although almost all music on the album is made by Ron, the encompassing music at times is complimented by some great guitar parts by Frank Dorittke (aka F.D. Project).\" -Bert Strolenberg / Sonic Immersion... (more/buy)
	Saul Stokes - Metacollage (Saul Stokes category) (Price: $24.99 ltd) 2009. Stokes's latest creation Metacollage forges an original path of new era electronic composition. Fluttering organic forms of electronics create the backdrop to carefully composed, beautifully arranged music. Darren Bergstein of E/I online magazine writes: He more or less provides the reasons why electronic music probably fascinates most of us: unheard-of sounds rendered flesh and set within new contexts that refuse to simply tow idm/ambient/what-have-you lines. Metacollage is packaged in a collector\'s edition wood case designed by Stokes. The Metacollage logo is stamped using a special Japanese archival ink. Each CD comes with a signed satin finished interior info card. The interior of the CD case is felt lined and protects the cd from scratches... (more/buy)
	Steve Roach - Dynamic Stillness (2CD) (Projekt category) (Price: $16.99, 2CD) 2009. Great new 2CD release by Steve Roach. "Dynamic Stillness presents ambient-electronic pioneer Steve Roach in the deep end of the pure atmospheric, rhythmless soundscape genre. Across the 2-CD release, amorphous shifting sonics glide in a phenomenal flow, highly cohesive and yet ever-changing. Dynamic stillness indeed! These eight long-form tracks (140 minutes in all) undulate softly and slowly, radiating light even as darkness hovers along the edges. It’s an album of subtle pieces, more often than not with emphasis on the stillness as opposed to the dynamics. Disc two’s closing Canyon Stillness plays like a dark inversion of Structures From Silence. A cold breeze blows through it all like a black mist. After so much softness it makes for a surprisingly chilling, engaging finish." -Phil Derby, Electroambient Space\"... (more/buy)
	Byron Metcalf / Mark Seelig / Steve Roach - Nada Terma (Projekt category) (Price: $13.99) 2009. Nada Terma merges the boundaries of ambient, world music and sacred-meditative styles. On Nada Terma (translated as: discovering spiritual treasures through the world of sound) East Indian tonalities blend with Sufi-like trance percussion immersed in atmospheres, drifts and drones, arriving at a state of relaxed, focused awareness. The continuously-woven 73-minute piece is sequenced into seven discrete segments, perfect for yoga, contemplation and bodywork... (more/buy)
	Steve Roach / Erik Wollo - Stream Of Thought (Projekt category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. Stream of Thought explores the nuance of shifts within our perception. Segments of illumination juxtaposed with amorphous interludes and moving, flowing rhythm culminate in an unforgettable, shifting, dynamic experience. Relax and float downstream. Tranquil drifts, passionate rapids, midnight star gazing and blazing sunsets await. This is a vivid soundtrack for the senses designed to take the listener to the outer reaches of the imagination... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand - Children of Alcyone (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $11.99, ltd cdr) 2009. The second release by Steve Brand on our Hypnos Secret Sounds imprint, Children of Alcyone demonstrates the characteristic otherworldly quality of the artist's best work. Generally quite simple, at times singlemindedly minimal, this work is nonetheless possessed of a depth and complexity that are revealed upon repeated listening. Stretched-out drone structures combine with subtle tribal/ethnic elements to create very effective atmospheres for almost hypnotic relaxation. Though we're tempted to call Brand one of our favorite "new" artists, in fact he has been active as a recording artist for quite some time, having released many recordings under the name Augur, along with a handful of solo and collaborative works under his own name this past year. Steve Brand says: "The inspiring energy for Children of Alcyone was/is the books of Barbara Marciniak. Marciniak's books are said to be channeled information from the Pleiadians, our distant multi-dimensional ancestors from the Pleiades constellation. (Alcyone is the name of the "central sun" of this constellation.) Upon being introduced to these books, I was immediately taken by their wit and irreverence, the nearly unfathomable timeline of events, and their uncanny relevance to things that are currently taking place here on Earth (the first of these books were channeled in the early 90's). The initial sound sketches for "Children" were begun in September of 2007 in the tidal wave of energy that was Steve Roach's "Into the SoundCurrent" masters' class, and elaborated upon, refined, and re-energized over the intervening 3 years in my own studio. The result is a sometimes murky, sometimes soothing, sometimes phantasmagorical series of excursions through multiple timelines, and myriad possible half lit universes that other versions of ourselves inhabit. My friend, and frequent collaborator, Jonathan Benham, not only created the art for this disk, but contributed energy and sounds to a couple of tracks with his array of homemade instruments during a series of improvisations between he and myself captured at my studio." Track listing, with mp3 sample clips: 1. Golden Cloud - (08:17) - mp3 clip 2. Light Age - (22:51) - mp3 clip 3. Outside the Grid of Time - (17:15) - mp3 clip 4. Into the Central Sun - (12:30) - mp3 clip... (more/buy)
	Underjordiska / Spectral Lore (Stellar Auditorium category) (Price: $14.99) This split is a collaboration far different from your typical let\'s throw some left-outs from our previous records, make a intro or two and off to the printing plant mentality, instead being a concept split album which should be heard as one, rather than two albums on the same cd. It is a journey from the surface of the sea to the very depths of the ocean, and then back towards the surface again. Each musician undertakes one part of the journey; two compositions over 30 minutes, featuring actual underwater recordings, aquatic drones, unique instruments (from a mandolin to a duduk) and even melodic post rockish moments. There is a continual flow of movement to the music, as the listener, embodied within this audial environment, descents and ascends through the ocean, towards a deepest point that seems to bear a particular significance: but is it the goal, or the journey itself that matters more?... (more/buy)
	Procer Veneficus - Saltwater & Glassmoon (Stellar Auditorium category) (Price: $14.99) Mr. Derek Schultz aka Night of Procer Veneficus has been composing hallucinogenic odes to otherwordly entities, foggy swamps, far away constellations and ash covered mountains since 2004, having unleashed a large catalogue of recordings featuring his unique brand of either black metal, acoustic or organic ambience. Saltwater and Glassmoon is about the depths of the sea, and its sounds illustrate a drowned orchestra performing large, adagio movements from within the deep, dark ocean. According to the words of the man himself, Deep and slow December ambience; kelp forest orchestral reveries filled to the brim with rich Pacific longing. Midnight moonlight music for crystalline blue air and silver oceanic melodies waning into sleep, slipping softly over the continental shelf into the enveloping refuge of abyssal silence.... (more/buy)
	Sempervirens - Dirge of the Dying Year (Stellar Auditorium category) (Price: $14.99) Dirge Of The Dying Year uncovers eight realms filled with unfettered beauty and pure thought, eight worlds stretching out as the eight fatal directions of the compass, all engulfed under an insatiable fog. Somewhere between Biosphere\'s Substrata, Northaunt\'s Barren Land and the early recordings of Brian Eno, Dirge... is the last and most mature recording of the Sempervirens catalogue, and a promise to far greater things in the future. Few individuals have mastered the art of soundscaping to a similar degree to the Estonian ambient artist Margus Mets, aka Sempervirens. His, largely unreleased, output of 6 full length albums and numerous other uncompiled material has been an exemplary effort to create soundworlds where boundaries are only set by the imagination of the artist, and where field recordings, deep drones, distant transmissions of some classical music broadcast, or even acoustic guitar breakdowns are found under precise multi-layering , flowing seamlessly as if they were never separate in the first place.... (more/buy)
	Alio Die & Aglaia - Private History of the Clouds (Infraction category) (Price: $14.99) 2009. Latest from the Infraction label. They say: "This has been in the works for almost 1.5 years. Is there finer ambience (save Oophoi perhaps) coming from Italy outside of these two acts? And a collaboration to boot. Nice. 900 copies in the Japanese style mini-lp matte gatefold sleeve. Beautiful layout courtesy of the ever-impressive designwork of Pyhai.... (more/buy)
	Vidna Obmana - An Opera for Four Fusion Works (4CDs) (Hypnos label) (Price: $34.99, 4CDs) It was always our intention to lower the price of Vidna Obmana's An Opera for Four Fusion Works series once the final act was released. Not only have we cut the price on the "Acts 1-4" package from $41.99 to $34.99, we've also slightly reduced the individual disc prices, for those of you who have purchased part of the series, but not all. For those unfamiliar with this Vidna Obmana "series" release, each "Act" involved a collaboration between Vidna Obmana and a different recording artist, and was released separately. "Act 1" was a single-disc release, but packaged in a 4-CD case designed to hold all four Acts together. Acts 2, 3 and 4 were released in a paper sleeve with a booklet, to be inserted in the Act 1 case (or, of course, they fit into a standard CD case if you prefer not to buy Act 1)... Act 1 featuring Dreams in Exile, $10.99 (more/buy) Act 2 featuring Bill Fox, $9.99 (more/buy) Act 3 featuring Kenneth Kirschner, $9.99 (more/buy) Act 4 featuring Steven Wilson, $9.99 (more/buy) Acts 1-4 combined, $34.99 (more/buy)
	c.j. mind & man ufo (eXperiment) - Source (faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. If you like music of Steve Roach - you will like this too! The natural beginning of all life on the Earth intertwines with estrangement pressing on the person the incomprehensible power of an external world (space). Too extraneous and severe really to be a monastery of each of us, as if a mourning bed-sheet swallowed light. In this contradiction, someone finds something attractive for search of the external forms not similar to ours, but probably forgets that its house, a family and surrounding close friends as anybody another is important to him. And being behind an understanding side, and remains not untangled ball drawing to only when on it is unique a question exciting you to you by all means (here and now) it is necessary to receive it is unique a right answer. Stay in a womb, a birth, individual search of sense of existence, leaving in the other world. Spring (awakening) before fading in a cold twilight of mature autumn (death). All is marvelously simple. After all the, Nature does not suffer intervention in its nature. When it exists without our presence – flows and sounds absolutely other light. But the Creator comes and by a wave of an invisible conductor's baton twists a surprising pattern on beauty, in which the voice of a far-far star is audible. The teamwork purpose (the present album) consisted, first of all, in desire to grope some integrity of a universe and attempt to find room for this perception in presented on seventy five minutes of a music material. Limited edition of 500 pieces, FAR-24... (more/buy)
	Robert Rich / Faryus - Zerkalo (faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. Tangential glimpses remotely echoed, untethered from touch. No time nor place, no past nor future, internal, external. Sculpting from energy, clouded motion vaguely slipping. Evanescent vibration, without meaning apart from its own open secret.... (more/buy)
	Martin Franklin & Michael Northam - An Opening of the Earth (faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. Reissue of strange and experimental out of print recording, this time on the Faria label. "Excavating the sonic crust with heavy synthesised drones, trebly buzzes and popping bursts of sound--eerie as hell." -Darren Bergstein, I/E (from review of original release)... (more/buy)
	Faryus & Vadim Bondarenko - 8 Atmospheres (faria category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. This album is the successful combination between two different worlds: bewitched electronics from Faryus and meditative parts of piano and clarinet from Vadim Bondarenko. In addition, this CD contains poetic video clip created by Alexander Sveshnikov... (more/buy)
	Vir Unis - Stand Still Like the Hummingbird (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2009. New work from AtmoWorks artist and founder Vir Unis. In ways it is aligned with earlier work that Vir Unis did with Steve Roach or Saul Stokes and solo work like Mercury and Plastic as well as Book of Mutations. There are deep and ultraviolet colored aural landscapes to explore while geometrical images of rhythms and electro-acoustical hybrid grooves forge new paths..... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand - LightTools (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2008. LightTools is Steve Brand's first long form piece, taking over a year to complete. Constructed of keyboard textures, bells and voice, this 63 minute piece takes the listener on a journey through brightly lit zones of intoning celestial choirs, only to submerge into volcanic, rumbling clouds of mercurial darkness, returning again to skscapes that are at once familiar, yet alien.... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand/Disturbed Earth - Broken Gold (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2008. Broken Gold is a longform track composed by two very talented and prolific AtmoWorks' artists, Disturbed Earth & Steve Brand. Broken Gold seethes and undulates with a variety of very stereophonic and swirling atmospheric sounds that have been crafted by these two artists from their respective studios... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand - Because We Were Once Covered In Gold (cdr) (AtmoWorks category) (Price: $12.99 cdr) 2008. Steve Brand returns with his second AtmoWorks release, following up on the success of "SoulSpiral". His new release, "Because We Were Once Covered In Gold", is a 5-part journey through some of the most moving and subtly-textured ambient to date. Steve had this to say about the new release: "'Because We Were Once Covered In Gold' was created about the same time as my album, "Bridge to Nowhere," and both were inspired by channeled material I was reading at the time. The gyst of that material is that our natural state is that of masters of a unimaginable number of realms and selves, and that we are in fact, limitless and empowered multidimensional beings, only temporarily encased in flesh and bone. Through the channels, these beings recalled long forgotten civilizations, planets and cultures far grander and creatively rich than ancient Greece or Egypt. I began to get a real sense of the depth of time, of place and of feeling that I wanted to convey and recreate in music. There were times when working on 'Because We Were Once Covered In Gold' that I sat back and listened to what I had done (or what came through me) and thought, 'When did I do that? WHO did that?' Created almost entirely of keyboard textures, only occasionally punctuated with bells and natural sounds, this album is meant to be a key for journeying, rediscovering and connection."... (more/buy)
	Lucette Bourdin - Ancient Memories (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) Lucette Bourdin is an extremely talented musician who creates stunningly beautiful music, floating melodies, and wonderful textural ambience. This is her 3rd release on Dark Duck Records and continues in her beautiful floating drones style that can also be heard on all of her Dark Duck Records releases.... (more/buy)
	Lucette Bourdin - Drums and Repercussions (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) This CD is Lucette's 5th release on Dark Duck Records and with each subsequent release, her musical craft gets more and more focused, as well as introduces us to a whole new side of her sound. This release features her trademark ambient sounds, along with gentle beats and rhythms that fill the sound out and bring a whole new flavor to her palate of sound... (more/buy)
	Stephen Philips & Numina - Descent of the Falcon (cdr) (Dark Duck category) (Price: $12.99) On 10 May 2008, Stephen Philips went to Denver Colorado, entered the Mysterium, and embarked on yet another massive improvised jam with friend and talented ambient artist Numina (Jesse Sola). The approximately 6 hour jam revealed a variety of interesting things as these artists began to musically mind-meld. They ran the gamut of sounds and styles over these 6 hours and explored some new territory at the same time.... (more/buy)
	The Winterhouse - Lost (Blue Oasis/DataObscura category) (Price: $13.99) Follow-up to the acclaimed debut album on Blue Oasis, Slow Promises, by the combined talents of Robert Davies and Anthony Paul Kerby (The Circular Ruins, Lammergeyer, Nunc Stans). The drone mastery of Davies is overlaid with Kerby's melodic subtlety and sonic creativity in an organic, addictive, and flowing musical narrative. Much of the music has a brooding vastness and grainy density, with scatterings of embedded field recordings and curious sound baubles. These are melancholic stories of loss and isolation, but told with an artist's eye for the beauty of it all. Lost stands as another testament to the power and depth of contemporary ambient music and its ability to open remarkable sonic vistas and meaningful moving landscapes... (more/buy)
	Entia Non - Updrafts (Blue Oasis/DataObscura category) (Price: $13.99) On Updrafts, Australian sound artist James McDougall serves up another gorgeous helping of scrambled field recordings, reconstructions, brittle textures, warm mechanisms, environmental rumblings, and a host of minute sonic abstractions and abrasions. The aural canvas is a rich shimmering, and sometimes skittering, collage of our human sound-world. Ripe with details, subtle developments, and underlying ambience, but flowing down unforseen channels like a stream-of-consciousness narrative. Microtonal and minimal, yet often lush and so very human, Updrafts is a welling up of the sonic world surrounding us every day. It is a testament to a world heard ... but not heard. An admirable follow-up release to the earlier Fold.... (more/buy)
	Robert Davies - Geography of Memory (Blue Oasis/DataObscura category) (Price: $13.99) There is a thread running through all of Davies' work, it can perhaps best be named phantasy. Song titles signify these very visual, phantastic worlds, and the music moves us through them as in a dream. We drift, transfixed, within uncertain landscapes suffused with evolving visions, shadows, and apparitions. The land of faerie, of phantoms, and of the unconscious. Robert's music is founded in this subterranean, subconscious realm, and is grounded with deep drones that gently weave a sombre and mysterious web of enveloping sound through which we return to something more primal, but also to something more magical.... (more/buy)
	Deepspace - The Glittering Domain (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $9.99, ltd cdr) 2008. Deepspace is a pseudonym for Mirko Ruckels, a German-born ambient/electronic musician who now resides in Brisbane, Australia. His previous releases have been self-released, and The Glittering Domain is his debut on Hypnos Secret Sounds. We at Hypnos view Deepspace as one of the top up-and-coming ambient music talents of the past few years, and electroambientspace.com agrees, naming him New Artist of the Year for 2007 and saying: "Mirko Ruckels is a great new talent, a cross between Steve Roach and Stars of the Lid, with a dash of Budd and Eno." Abstract and definitely "ambient" in nature, The Glittering Domain simultaneously exhibits a strong musical sensibility, with a sound and structure reminiscent of artists such as Vidna Obmana and Numina. Though Hypnos may be best known for unstructured "drone" style recordings, we really enjoy a recording like this one that has more of a tonal basis. Deepspace described by stillstream.com: "Lush, exquisite, flawless, refined, striking, beautiful... we could go on and on with adjectives to describe the music of Deepspace. One of our favorite discoveries in the past year, this is an artist to keep a close eye on - and one we encourage all our listeners to visit right away." Track listing, with mp3 sample clips: Introduction- The Chord of the Abyss MP3 clip Encountering Giants MP3 clip The Colossals MP3 clip Crushed by the Weight of Angels MP3 clip Elevenward MP3 clip Lacrimosa's Visitation MP3 clip The Glittering Domain MP3 clip The Sleeper (Close) MP3 clip... (more/buy)
	Ron Boots - See Beyond Times - Look Beyond Words (groove category) (Price: $13.99) "Obscure loops minimalisms are stumbling pitch in the misty corridors of a dreamlike hypnosis. Immerged cosmic waves, these circles become more aerated rambling under a single pulsation which wanders among consistent synth layers borrowing the perfume of a soft vocal breeze." -Sylvain Lupari, Guts Of Darkness... (more/buy)
	Birds of Tin - Rinpoche (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $11.99, ltd cdr) 2008. Birds of Tin is a pseudonym for experimental sound artist Brooke Oates. He has previously collaborated with Rapoon and Augur (Steve Brand), and released several solo and collaborative works on a variety of labels, most notably Manifold and Mystery Sea. We are pleased to announce the first release by Birds of Tin, Rinpoche, on the Hypnos Secret Sounds sub-label. This recording comes from an in-studio live improvisation from 2002, and covers a strange and varied sonic territory. Working in the realm of sound art as much as "music," the artist creates an effect that is hypnotic and at times seemingly psychoactive. "Birds Of Tin is the one man project of Brooke Oates and there has been no new release since 2004. That perhaps might be right, since the recordings here on 'Rinpoche' were improvised in 2002. Birds Of Tin had releases on Manifold, Solipsism, Mystery Sea and XZF. What Oates does here is pretty much outside the lines of Hypnos: no finely woven tapestries of synthesizers, but a likewise finely woven pattern of all sorts of heavily treated sound objects. Lots of echo and reverb on the tea cups that is. Two pieces, together spanning some seventy-five minutes, whereas one would have been enough. Another difference is the improvisational aspect of the music, also not unlike Hypnos. Birds Of Tin seems to me a man who loves his record collection - don't we all - and particularly records by zoviet*france and to a lesser extent Rapoon. Sometimes things are a bit too haphazard in the way its put together, but then in other moments he proofs to be capable of producing a nice tune. A pair of scissors to splice the tape would be handy though." --Reviewed by Frans DeWaard, Vital Weekly Track listing (with mp3 sample clips): 1 mp3 2 mp3... (more/buy)
	Augur and Birds of Tin - Strange Seeds come from Odd Flowers (Steve Brand category) (Price: $11.99) As we get ready to release our first project by Birds of Tin, we're happy to offer this earlier recording which was a collaboration between Birds of Tin, and Steve Brand's earlier musical identity, Augur. "Solo and collaborative tracks from these two musicians. Excellent atmospheric electronics and found sounds. Very highly recommended." -Self Abuse Records... (more/buy)
	Numina - Sound Symbols (Numina category) (Price: $12.99) 2008. Description by Numina: "This was a 3-year work in progress which started out as the Almost Live project for the Ambient Ping download project. Over the years I expanded it with the intention of releasing this as a full-length album but it got sidetracked until November 2008 when I had some time to not only re-mix and re-master the original but also add brand new material throughout and what developed is "Sound Symbols."... (more/buy)
	Various - Echoes of Polyhymnia (Hypnos label) (Price: $9.99) 2008. New, special price! Polyhymnia was one of the Muses of Greek myth, specifically the Muse of sacred hymn. Echoes of Polyhymnia compiles music in ambient and related genres composed and recorded exclusively by women. This genre is so male-dominated generally that we had a lot of fun gathering interesting ambient sounds, including some works that have one foot in ambient territory and another foot in one of several different, related genres. It covers styles and flavors as diverse as ambient, drone, glitch, vocal collage, goth and electronica. Hypnos manager (and artist) Lena Griffin curated this specially-themed compilation which gathers an assortment of ambient & atmospheric sound works from around the world. This project reveals a totally new angle on ambient music, more diverse and wide-ranging than all previous ambient compilations from Hypnos. Ranging from ethereal to dark to pretty to spooky to melodic, we think this album displays a solidly worthwhile musical and soundscape content beyond just the curiosity and "I've never seen that before" factor of the theme. "The nine Muses struck up a lifestirring melody. Polyhymnia, nursingmother of the dance, waved her arms and sketched in the air an image of a soundless voice, speaking with hands and moving eyes in a graphic picture of silence full of meaning." --The Dionysiaca of Nonnus Track listing with mp3 sample clips: 1. Margaret Noble: "Nufon" mp3 2. Stellaria Fennica: "Hibernia" mp3 3. Kristin Miltner: "Slew Wave" mp3 4. Clarissa Borba: "Floating Tones" mp3 5. Sara Ayers: "There Was No More Time" mp3 6. Rose Bolton: "An Unheard Message" mp3 7. Gydja: "Wave-Particle Duality" mp3 8. The Floating World: "Kanam" mp3 9. K. Cornelius: "Of The Ancients" mp3 10. Lena Griffin: "She Forgot, She Dreamed" mp3 ... (more/buy)
	Ben Fleury-Steiner - Drifts (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $11.99, ltd cdr) 2008. Hypnos Secret Sounds reissue of an out-of-print early release on Fleury-Steiner's own Gears of Sand label. Drifts is a nice set of electronic ambient tracks combining different repeating loops which overlap at different rates, falling (or drifting?) in and out of sync with one another, creating ever-changing organic ambient textures. Mastered by Robert Rich... (more/buy)
	Saul Stokes - Villa Galaxia (Binary section) (Price: $12.99) 2008. Always one of the most popular artists on the Hypnos and Binary labels through the years, Saul Stokes is also one we've been very proud to "launch" into the ambient/electronica world, going back to Saul's first album which was also the first album on Hypnos, Washed in Mercury in 1997. The first new work by Saul Stokes on Hypnos/Binary since Fields in 2005, this is certainly one of the most anticipated discs we've released in years. Saul Stokes says: Stokesí 8th solo album to date, Villa Galaxia is a hyperfusion of sonic exploration seeded in Stokesí seminary music past, while arcing into a completely new genre defining collection of songs. Stripping away any notion of ambient drone or chill out labeling, Villa Galaxia surfs its own ocean of contemporary electronic music culture with eccentric listenable experimentalism wrapped in catchy lyrical orchestras of electronic fireworks.... (more/buy)
	Igneous Flame / Achromus - Flicker (Miscellaneous category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. Flicker is primarily tonal with an under-current of ethereal mystery and depth. Constructed from Achromus's synth textures and Igneous Flame's e-bow guitar lines and abstracted harmonic shapes, melodic phrases are woven around tonally shifting soundscapes. The album's dark luminosity shines throughout. Composition, guitar, sound-design and production by Igneous Flame Composition and synths/pads (source sounds) by Achromus... (more/buy)
	William Basinski + Richard Chartier - Untitled 1-3 (William Basinski category) (Price: $14.99) 2008. Reissue of an interesting collaboration that quickly went out of print in its original edition. Both Basinski and Chartier are on the more experimental or minimal side of the ambient music world, but we've found many Hypnos store customers to be interested in both artists. "New, updated and remastered version of William Basinski and Richard Chartier's universally acclaimed work Untitled 1-2. Originally released in 2004 on the noted Japanese label Spekk, the original edition of 1300 sold out within 2 months. This new version Untitled 1-3 includes two new works, Untitled 3 and Untitled 3 (reprise), and has been remastered with care by Taylor Deupree. Untitled 1 contains Chartier elements from 1991-1992 and Basinski elements from 2003 using the Voyetra 8. 'Untitled 2' contains Chartier elements from 2003 and Basinski tape loops from 1981 and 2001 using the Voyetra 8. Untitled 3/3 (reprise) contain Chartier elements from 1993 and the 2006 sound installation Mixing Desk commissioned for the Bleeding Edge Festival at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California and Basinski elements from 1997 using the Voyetra 8. Untitled 3 mixed by Basinski. Untitled 3(reprise) mixed by Chartier." --Reviewed by forcedexposure.com... (more/buy)
	Sans Serif - Tones for LaMonte (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $11.99, ltd cdr) 2008. Sans Serif is an alter ego of Forrest Fang, the talented multi-instrumentalist and composer whose most recent solo album Gongland was released on Projekt in 2000. He has also collaborated with Carl Weingarten on the album Invisibility released on The Foundry, as well as contributing instrumentally to the works of other artists such as Robert Rich. Unlike the more traditionally structured and "musical" work Fang releases under his own name, the Sans Serif project is focused on minimalism. This project in particular is a tribute to the influential minimalist composer LaMonte Young, whose work was known for the use of long, sustained tones and alternate tunings. Tones for LaMonte bridges the two, related worlds of avant-garde classical influence, and modern ambient drone. Track listing, with mp3 sample clips: 1. Alpha mp3 2. Omega mp3 3. Gamma mp3 4. Delta mp3 5. Theta mp3 6. (infinity) mp3... (more/buy)
	Steve Brand - Bridge to Nowhere (Ltd CDR) (Hypnos Secret Sounds section) (Price: $11.99, ltd cdr) 2008. Steve Brand has just recently started releasing music under his own name, after more than 20 releases in the experimental realm under the name "Augur." Now Brand has a number of recordings scheduled for release on Hypnos, and also on the AtmoWorks label, and the first of these is Bridge to Nowhere. Brand's work has always had a ritualistic element, and sound sources include: medicine drum, udu, rattles, various flutes, bells, conch shell, thumb piano, cora, Indian fiddle, found, natural and handmade objects, voice, field recordings and keyboards. Bridge to Nowhere is a spacious, slow-breathing exploration of a meditative state, and nowhere in Brand's work is the ritualistic element more present than in this case. Ambient music in general is often considered to be "spacy" or conducive to altered states of consciousness in general, but this music specifically seems exploratory, meditative, and even a bit "druggy" and strange. As fans of this music ourselves, we particularly love it when an artist seems genuinely to have tapped into a reality outside our own -- to have slowed down the world or distorted it, or viewed things through a prism or kaleidoscope. The work of Steve Brand functions in this way, and we're pleased to be able to deliver this incredible, no-side-effects sound trip, to Hypnos listeners! Track listing, with mp3 sample clips: 1. Bridge to Nowhere 1 - (14:43) - mp3 clip 2. Breathing Light - (20:40) - mp3 clip 3. Bridge to Nowhere 2 - (20:00) - mp3 clip 4. Through the Lens of Love - (20:00) - mp3 clip... (more/buy)
	M. Griffin - Fabrications (Hypnos label) (Price: $12.99) 2008. Originally announced in 1997 as the follow-up by Hypnos founder Mike Griffin to his debut Sudden Dark, Fabrications has been reworked, abandoned, restarted from scratch, back-burnered, reimagined, and left frozen in carbonite. Among those who have followed Hypnos from the beginning, Fabrications achieved a certain notoriety as the album always promised for release in the coming year, which never quite arrived. 2008 is finally the year in which Fabrications is revealed, perhaps appropriate for the 10-year anniversary of its original planned release date, 1998. Generally known as an ambient minimalist, utilizing synthesizers for most of his work, this time M. Griffin took advantage of "real world" sounds, captured with binaural microphones using a portable digital audio recorder. For this release, Griffin built up collages of numerous location recording elements, including cars driving on freeways, people walking in long echoing hallways, the ocean waves in Kona at night, a metalworking factory with heavy machinery crunching away, distant trains, and clothes driers. These elements were manipulated, combined, worked-on and re-worked, and overlaid with looped spoken elements later created by Griffin in the studio. The end result comes out something like the Zoviet France soundtrack to a David Lynch film, that is, a dark and dream-like collage of loops, spoken fragments, disembodied whispers, and the echo of far-off machinery... Track listing, with MP3 sample clips: Water is Silver Gravity Behind Air Sense Space Devise Sky is Glass Lit... (more/buy)
	Jason Sloan - Static (Waterscape category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. "STATIC is a 22 min piece that is divided into two movements. The first is comprised of mostly organ sounds with a small amount of guitar, and the second is guitar only, which builds eventually into a wall of pure sound. One may be heavily reminded of Steve Roach's approach to space music. Highly recommended for space music fans and fans of shoegaze." - Waterscape Records... (more/buy)
	True Colour of Blood - The Cave of Knowlege (Waterscape category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. "Eric Kesner is the man behind True Colour of Blood. The Cave of Knowledge is a 22 min drone. Kestner perfectly combines dark ambient moments with minutes of pure clarity. Like most of the Waterscape releases this is a pure blessing for headphone trips into a world of shimmering guitar drones and ambient soundscapes." - Waterscape Records... (more/buy)
	Taiga Remains - Descend from Ivory Cliffs (Waterscape category) (Price: $13.99) 2008. "Taiga Remains is Alex Cobb, who is also the man behind the Students of Decay Label in America. Descend from Ivory Cliffs is an almost 23 min drone-epic that mixes some of the most beautiful melodies your ear has ever listened to." - Waterscape Records... (more/buy)
	vidnaObmana - An Opera for Four Fusions Works (Acts 1-4, 4CDs) (Hypnos label) (Price: $34.99, 4CDs) 2002-2007.Now that Acts 1-4 of vidnaObmana's epic OPERA FOR FOUR FUSION WORKS project have been released (spanning 2002-2007), we're making available a discounted package of all 4 parts together, for those of you who have not purchased any of the parts along the way. The usual disclaimer applies... this music is not in any real sense "opera" music, and the term is used only to suggest the varied, multi-part quality of this ongoing release. AN OPERA FOR FOUR FUSION WORKS is a unique project by Vidna Obmana and Hypnos -- a four-CD album, released one CD at a time. The first disc comes in a case (similar to the one used for Robert Rich's Humidity) that will have space for all four discs, though slots 2, 3 and 4 will be empty. The listener can then purchase the later installments as they are released gradually, and insert them into the case. Act I used guitar pieces from Dreams in Exile, Act II used Bill Fox's saxophone recordings, Act III worked from the foundation of Kenneth Kirschner's piano works, and this last installment utilizes the voice of Steven Wilson ( No-Man, Porcupine Tree, and the artist behind Bass Communion)... (more) | (buy)