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Cipher - No Ordinary Man

Ambient music, like any other genre, has many sounds, from purely electronic soundscapes, to cut-and-paste pointillism, to environmental collage. Cipher presents a jazzy take on the quiet side of...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2000-05-01)

Coyote Oldman - House Made of Dawn

This duo of flautists, Michael Graham Allen and Barry Stramp, creates a music far beyond that of the acoustic instrument. Processed through a myriad of effects, the tones of the flute create music...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2000-05-01)

David Bagsby - Transphoria

From Tulsa Oklahoma, Bagsby has been around for a few years doing his thing; he had a fairly interesting release with keyboardist Kurt Rongey as Xen a few years back. On this latest release Bagsby...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2000-05-01)

David Helpling - Sleeping on the Edge of the World

On Sleeping on the Edge of the World, synthesist David Helpling has conjured up 11 portraits of the subconscious, a soundtrack to your dreams if you will. This collection sits well beside...

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(Posted by Paul Hightower 2000-05-01)

Discus - 1st

Progressive rock from unlikely places: Indonesia. Sure, we’ve covered a lot of Gamelan influenced music like the recent Mani Nuemeier releases, Gamelan Pacifica, and even the home-grown...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2000-05-01)

Dün - Eros

Zeuhl alert! One of the best, yet little known zeuhl gems has re-surfaced thanks to the specialty label Soleil Atreides, the same folks who recently gave us Archaia. Dün is rather more in the...

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(Posted by Dean Suzuki 2000-05-01)

Dystopia - The Second Dawn

Most of the time, when I listen to music, I don’t actively think about the intentions of the musicians. I just listen and judge the sounds on their own terms. Only later do I sometimes wonder...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2000-05-01)

Eclat - En Concert - Marseille Tokyo

Recorded in both France and Japan, En Concert is a snapshot of the band on two nights in the summer of 1998. Much of Eclat’s music could be categorized as jazz-fusion, but they...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2000-05-01)

Epidaurus - Earthly Paradise & Endangered

Earthy Paradise is a short five-song album originally released in 1977 that should fulfill any analog purist with its dual-keys-driven, Mellotron-and-organ-heavy sound. In some ways it is...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2000-05-01)

Erik Wøllo - Guitar Nova

This is Wøllo’s latest, essentially an acoustic guitar driven album with a number of other instruments featured judiciously, track depending, and with the exception of the solo guitar...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2000-05-01)

Erik Wøllo - Where It All Begins

If all you’ve known of Wøllo is his later ambient / synth oriented Images of Light period material, you are in for a real treat with this, a reissue of his very first album from 1982....

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2000-05-01)

Fifty Foot Hose - Sing Like Scaffold

Fifty Foot Hose occupy that most rare of places, avant garde psychedelia, a mix very few bands have even attempted, let alone pulled off. The fact that they first honed their craft with their debut...

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(Posted by Steve Robey 2000-05-01)

Forgas Band Phenomena - Extra-Lucide

French drummer/composer Patrick Forgas supplied us with the missing link between Canterbury and zeuhl with his outstanding 1997 release, Roue Libre. Forgas Band Phenomena returns two years...

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(Posted by David Ashcraft 2000-05-01)

Foxtrot Zulu - Frozen in Time

Foxtrot Zulu is a Rhode Island group who should be finding a quick path onto the roots radio wave still prevalent across the US. One of the things that sets the seven piece apart from other roots...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

Fred Thelonious Baker - Missing Link

For those of you wondering who in the world is Fred Baker with the familiar middle name, please allow me to provide background on the educated virtuoso. He’s a Birmingham College of Music...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)

French TV - The Violence of Amateurs

Any new French TV album is always a load of fun and great playing, but with this one (what is this now, the sixth? They used to number them...), the band seems to have taken a big step forward,...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2000-05-01)

Garmarna - Vedergällningen (Vengeance)

Garmarna’s newest release starts out with a grab for the listener’s throat. “Gamen (Vulture)” begins with a flanged rhythmic pattern on two fiddles which builds up to a powerful crash as the...  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2000-05-01)

Garrett List - The New York Takes

You may be aware of Carbon 7 for their new Present release (No. 6), Cro-Magnon, and a few others. But with Garrett List we and they step into a different dimension altogether. The New...

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(Posted by Mike Ezzo 2000-05-01)

Group Therapy - Atlantis

No this isn’t the California band Atlantis. This is a Japanese band called Group Therapy with an album titled Atlantis. This is a seven-piece all-instrumental band: two guitarists, a...

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(Posted by Mike Grimes 2000-05-01)

Harmonia 76 - Tracks and Traces

1976 was a transitional year where Brian Eno changed his context for working with electronics to an ambient perspective. This was due in part to his meeting with synthesizer duo Cluster (Moebius...

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(Posted by Jeff Melton 2000-05-01)