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Zhongyu - Zhongyu Is Chinese for Finally

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What first hits me as a listener on the album opener “Apple of My Mind’s Eye 2” is the strong Chinese influence, in the instrumentation, scales and percussion used, which should...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2017-01-22)

Various Artists - A New Career in a New Town: More Songs by David Bowie

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For the Fruits de Mer Member’s Club annual freebie last year, Keith Jones produced an exclusive CD of David Bowie covers titled

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2017-01-22)

UTU - Pieces of the Unknown

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And while we’re on the subject of inventive combinations of acoustic and electric instruments (see

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2017-01-20)

Mantaray - Numinous Island

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Mantaray is the duo of Susumu Yokota and DJ Ray. Yokota is a prolific Japanese trance and ambient composer; DJ Ray hails from New Zealand and he predominantly DJs at parties in Australasia. Yokota...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2017-01-19)

Alio Die & Zeit - Raag Drone Theory

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I find the collaboration of Alio Die and Zeit to be one of ambient music's most fruitful, and Raag Drone Theory could be their finest combined effort. From a lineage perspective, this...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2017-01-19)

Sam Coulson - Electric Classical

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The YouTube guitar star who was drafted to replace Steve Howe in Asia has his own album, totally solo, electric guitars only (mostly Stratocasters, with some multi-tracking, of course) covering a...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2017-01-18)

Jack o' the Clock - Repetitions of the Old City - I

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Sometimes music will hit you just at the right time, when the combination of circumstance, mood, and sound just works, and sometimes the reaction is so subjective it can be hard to work...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2017-01-16)

Spirits Burning & Clearlight - The Roadmap in Your Head

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This is the second collaboration between Spirits Burning master of ceremonies and multi-instrumentalist Don Falcone, and Clearlight – or more precisely Cyrill Verdeaux, who is the mastermind...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2017-01-15)

Amirtha Kidambi / Elder Ones - Holy Science

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It is well known that John Coltrane’s music was influenced by exposure to Indian ragas. Here is a case where some of Coltrane’s ideas are applied back to South Asian traditions. Not...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2017-01-13)

Adrian Moore - Traces

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The music on this CD falls into three categories: the abstract ("Junky," "Dreamarena"), hearing natural sounds in a different context ("Study in Ink,"...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2017-01-12)

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