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Now that the two collaberations I've been working on for sometime are complete ('The Martian Chronicles' with Oophoi and 'Lament of a Forgotten God' with Gliese 614), I'll be getting back to some solo music - picking up 'Fractured' again and looking into something new.

Do tell, do tell.

Sorry to hear about the lackluster reception. For what it's worth, I think it's a stunning album and one of my favorites by you. Captures that deep forest (no, not the band) vibe amazingly well. I don't have that many friends who "get" ambient, but I'll try to spread the word about Maalbeek as best as I can.

Best of luck. A new album this year would certainly be tasty.

Robert Rich - 32 releases (including collabs)
Alio Die - 34 releases (including collabs)
Vidna Obmana - 37 releases (including collabs and FFB stuff)
Steve Roach - 62 releases (including collabs)
Oophoi - 66 releases (including collabs and EPs)

...aaaaaaand the winner:

Mathias Grassow - 82 releases (including collabs)

For immersive Grassow releases: his recent collab with Tomas Weiss, Quiet Calling II, is amazing. I believe the drones were made from cellos. A lot of his older CDR releases are great, deep, drone works as well: Space, the Empty Sky, The Soil of Awareness, The Dreamquest Sessions. This used to be sold through Klaus Wiese's site, but I don't know if they're available anywhere now.

Lots of good stuff this year. I enjoyed a lot of releases already mentioned ("Phantoms," "Rigning," any of the many Roach albums), but to keep things interesting, here are 10 others that've also impressed me:

Arktau Eos - Ai Ma Ra
Ben Frost - By the Throat
Mathias Grassow - Transpersonal
Mathias Grassow & Tomas Weiss - Quiet Calling II
Igneous Flame & Disturbed Earth - Harmonium
Lustmord - [ The Dark Places of the Earth ]
Raison d'etre - The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice
Robert Rich - Live Archive (hell yes!)
Bruno Sanfilippo - Piano Textures II
Troum - Eald-Ge-Stréon / Abhijñâ

I've got a huge soft spot for Kenji Kawai's scores for the Ghost in the Shell films.  Bizarre and beautiful; wonderfully atmospheric.

I'm eagerly trying to complete my Seren Ffordd discography.  Is there any chance recordings like Vajra Storm, Calling, and MooN will ever be made available (whatever the format)?

And wow, the audio samples for Gigi's new one are glitchy, indeed.

Hmmmm...where are you finding these samples, good sir?

Very stoked for this.

So, I purchased the mp3 versions of Due Acque, Lumin, and Mycosphere.  Great performances, but the ripping job was terrible.  Typically, for gapless albums like these, I'll drop the tracks into Goldwave, delete the small silence between them, and basically "stitch" them together into one unbroken mp3.  When trying this with these tracks, however, I noticed that the ends are "frayed," so to speak; that is, the waveform becomes distorted/jagged around the track transition points.  So, even after removing the tiny gap, I still get an annoying little pop/click when transitioning to the next track.  It's a thing I've noticed in damn near every track of each of the 3 concerts I purchased.  You can see some of the problem spots circled here.  On listening to the concert in its entirety, I've also noticed several pops/clicks in the middle of tracks. 

I'm getting really damn sick of paying for mp3s that haven't even been ripped/encoded properly (CD Baby has been a particularly egregious offender in this regard, but even Amazon has given me some bad apples).  To anyone else who's ordered the mp3 versions of any of these concerts, have you experienced similar issues?  To those who ordered the FLAC versions, do those seem to be problem free?  Anyone ordered FLAC and then converted to mp3?