ambient Archive

System 7’s Second Summer of Love (Part 3 of 3)

Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: What kind of synthesizer gear did you use on Flower of Life? Steve Hillage: Well, there’s quite a bit of our antique EMS. And […]

System 7’s Second Summer of Love (Part 2 of 3)

Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: From my perspective, your guitar work seems to be more integrated into what System 7 does on Flower of Life than it perhaps was […]

System 7’s Second Summer of Love (Part 1 of 3)

A shorter edit of this feature was first published on The Tonearm. Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy embarked on their fascinating musical journey several decades ago. They began working together […]

A Chat with Roedelius

An edited version of this feature was first published in The Tonearm. Hans-Joachim Roedelius is a towering figure in music. A founding member of groundbreaking bands Kluster/Cluster and Harmonia, Berlin-born […]

Billy Fuller’s Kosmische ‘Fragments’ (Part 3 of 3)

Continued from Part Two… What other synthesizers did you use on these tracks? The main one is the one that we’ve always used in Beak> as well, which was one […]

Billy Fuller’s Kosmische ‘Fragments’ (Part 2 of 3)

Continued from Part One… Something you just said made me think about this. When I talk to artists, it often comes up that they consider sequencing to be nearly as […]

Billy Fuller’s Kosmische ‘Fragments’ (Part 1 of 3)

A much shorter edit of this interview was first published in The Tonearm. Billy Fuller is a versatile bassist with a dazzling CV. He’s a founding member of modern-day experimental […]

Album Review: Midge Ure – Man of Two Worlds

Midge Ure is quite a character in the musical world. With a CV that includes important work in Thin Lizzy, Ultravox and Visage, he also co-wrote “Do They Know It’s […]

Album Review: Alf Jetzer – Unfolding

Based in Switzerland, Alf Jetzer makes atmospheric music with elements of worldbeat, ambient and trance, all informed by classical and pop textures. His sound paintings are more impressionistic than melodic, […]

Album Reviews: Two from the Hyperspace Communications Label

Next World Sound Vol. 5 Dark ambient: that’s the most succinct distillation Ican come up with to describe this LP. Featuring one side each of works from a pair of […]