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Wednesday 31 August 2011

NEW RELEASES WORTH CHECKING OUT

A concept triple CD of ambient/space music inspired by the electronic music of the late 70s.You can find out more from Michael, himself, on YouTube.
A purely electronic expression of five long-form pieces that blend ambient sound design with rhythmic electronics and a mixture of synthesized sonics, both melodic and cerebral.
Premonition Factory (Sjaak Overgaauw, The Netherlands) is a self-taught musician, currently living in Antwerp, Belgium.The music of Premonition Factory has been classified as ambient, with a touch of experimental and avant-garde.
Just released. A New Age album that is a cut above the rest in the genre.
Arguably one of Salva Moreno's best yet!
"Ancient Wisdom" is the new work of Psicodreamics inspired by Celtic myth and the wisdom of the ancients.
This new collection from Xan Alexander, one half of the synth music group The Omega
Syndicate, features his usual blend of atmospheric ambience mixed with high energy
sequences and solos, alongside more experimental material.



Sunday 28 August 2011

THE GLIMMER ROOM NEWS

NEW ALBUM STARTED
These past few weeks I have been really busy trying to get a spark for the new Glimmer Room album, to be honest it has been a bit of a struggle to get into as I have not written any new TGR music since A Diary Of Occurrences, but I think I am getting there. I am aiming for a follow up to 'Diary' with this one, as to me 'Diary' feels like a bit of a general overview of the whole Borley story and I want to focus on some finer details starting with the house itself. I am not sure as to just how this is going to work out as I have never started an album with such a defined idea of what I want to achieve with it. 
DIARY OF OCCURRENCES
This has been getting some really encouraging radio play the last month or so.
Echoes, Galactic Travels, Secret Music and Stars End in the States
ARFM here in the UK
Ultima Thule in Australia.
It also has featured in various podcasts including Astreaux World, Musiczeit, Magnatune.
PARALLEL  SUN
Some of you might be aware that I also am a member of Parallel Sun alongside OJ from The Jupiter 8, we perform a semi-improvised prog'ish brand of electronic music. Anyway we are currently about 2 thirds through the recording of our first album 'Room 15' so that is keeping me very busy as well.

Friday 26 August 2011

JEFF WOODALL NEWS

Just a quick update with a new production track.


Feel free to drop by for a quick listen at your leisure!!
 


SUNDAY SYNTH PLAYLIST FOR AUGUST 28/29

PROJEKT ERDE: Beteigeuze (Mysterious Vibrations)
PALANCAR: Aureum Chaos (Elysium Planitia)
JONN SERRIE: Enroute To Delta Pavonis (Thousand Star)
JAJA: Arise (Oum)
KEVIN KENDLE: Horsehead Nebula (Light From Orion)
MAITREYA: Night Vision (Telluric Waves)
KEVIN BRAHENY: Starflight 1 (Galaxies)
DANIEL BLANCHET: Apollo 11/Constellations (Les Voilliers De L'Espace)
ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT: Two Dimension Expansion (Beyond Silence)
THUNDERBEAT: Sirius (Cosmic Dream)
MICHAEL STEARNS: Seven (Within The Nine Dimensions)
WAVESTAR: Landfall (Mind Journey)
CHUCK VAN ZYL & PETER GULCH: Regeneration Mode (Regeneration Mode)
FEATURED ALBUM IS "THE PLANETS" by NEUE.




NEW JANUS ALBUM

LIGHT YEARS - THE UFO ANTHOLOGY album by Janus is a celebratory and FREE download for fans as a thank you and marking the occasion of 30 years of his UFO themed musical works. The album download contains a massive 16 tracks in total, some familiar to fans plus previously unreleased works and brand new compositions produced specifically for this special release.
The album is now available to freely download for 4 days only from Friday 26th August to Monday 29th August(midnight) inclusive  www.janus.soundfuturesdirect.com/store/

Friday 19 August 2011

SUNDAY SYNTH PLAYLIST FOR AUGUST 21/22

KEVIN BRAHENY: The Way Home Part 2 (The Way Home)
CRAIG PADILLA: The Light In The Shadow (The Light In The Shadow)
ROACH, BRAHENY & STEARNS: Desert Solitaire (Desert Solitaire)
PROTON KINOUN: Skyward Dreams (Apeiron)
MICHAEL NEIL: Helman Tor (Cornubia)
ACHELOO: The Bride Of Taar (Sirens)
TONY GERBER: Dream Ochre (Colour My Dream)
PAUL ELLIS: The Click And Chime Of Passing Time (From Out Of The Vast Comes Nearness)
DMITRY MAZUROV: Oblivion (Creature On A Lavatory Pan)
PREMONITION FACTORY: Chasing The Unknown (Sense Of Time)
TIME BEING: As You Pass This Way (A Dimension Reflected)
DEAN DE BENEDICTIS: Little Colorado River Gorge (Travels Rendered)
DAVID HELPLING & JON JENKINS: Not A Soul, Not A Sound (Treasure)

Thursday 18 August 2011

SOME MORE CLASSIC ALBUMS





Here's a few more albums that so impressed me when I first became aware of electronic music.

Saturday 13 August 2011

SUNDAY SYNTH PLAYLIST FOR AUGUST 14/15

DANIEL BLOOM, MEESHA, WELLENFELD, GLENN MAIN, STEFAN ERBE, BRIAN VASSALLO, DIVINE MATRIX, BRENT ALLEN SCOTT, JON JENKINS, THE GLIMMER ROOM, JEFF WOODALL, ULRICH SCHNAUSS, PARALLEL WORLDS, GILES REAVES. There is also a feature on KARDA ESTRA.
Sunday, 10 a.m.-12; Monday, 10 pm-midnight (UK time).
www.arfm.co.uk

ARTIST NEWS: DIGITAL HORIZONS

Released July 2011. The 22nd Cd release from Digital Horizons since the first in 2002
4 tracks.
1. canopies1  6.15
2. canopies2  6.02
3. canopies3  7.42
4. canopies4  5.15

Available from www.reverbnation.com/digitalhorizons as a full download, individual track downloads or a 'proper' cd.
Also look for the Digital Horizons page on Facebook.

Wednesday 10 August 2011

ARTIST NEWS

JANUS (CHRIS NEWMAN)
For 4 days from the 26th of August to the 29th inclusive I've produced a totally free download album celebrating 30 years of music for fans called " Light Years-The UFO Anthology". It contains familiar works from my UFO themed material over the years in addition to several exclusively produced tracks for the release and some rare unreleased pieces. It's free as I say for all to download on any of those 4 days this August from www.janus.soundfuturesdirect.com/store
In other news I'm currently working with Logan Hawkes (from the Ancient Aliens TV series) on a major 2 part episode production of his book "Encounters of the Old West" for The Unknown Show. Logan's narrated it and I'm producing the music. As an aside it's interesting to note that Logan was called in by Speilberg to assist the producers of the new film "Cowboys and Aliens".
Warm wishes as always,
Chris

Monday 8 August 2011

EARLY ALBUM INFLUENCES





Here's a few of the albums that made such an impression on me in "the old days" :-) More to follow.

FEATURED ALBUM OF THE WEEK

This weeks featured album was "Slow Down" by Andreas Baaden.
For more information go to www.andreasbaaden.de

PLAYLIST FOR AUGUST 14/15

DEEP IMAGINATION: SPACE (AWARENESS)
SMITE MATTER: FROM THE SHADE (Track not release on any album)
DAVE BREWER & FREE SYSTEM PROJEKT: COTTAGE #3 (RICOCHET GATHERING 2000)
MIKE DICKSON: VULTURE (SIX CONSEQUENCES)
FABER: SPACEFISH (SPACEFISH)
BRYAN EL: MOONSHINE (SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION)
FEATURED ALBUM: ANDREAS BAADEN (SLOW DOWN)
Tracks: Red Rooster
Broken Dreams
Above The Clouds Of Jupiter
PART 2
KARDA ESTRA: ETERNITY STATION (NEW WORLDS)
JONAS KROON: THE KING (MELO)
RAMSAYGEE: SOAR (EXOTIQUE)
MAEASY: LORD OF THE SKY (TOPP COSMOS)
ROBERT FOX: EARTH (TOUCHING THE SERPENT'S TAIL)
JAJA: BEYOND (OUM)
PETER CHALLONER: LUNAR TIDE (LUNAR TIDE)
ANDY PICKFORD: THE SENTINEL (NEMESIS)