ambient Archive
21 Jun 2016
Album Mini-review: Brian Eno — The Ship
File next to: Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, Low-era David Bowie Though he came to prominence initially as a member of art-rockers Roxy Music (and then, years later, as an in-demand […]
19 May 2016
Asheville Electro Music Festival: High Technology, Human Scale
In his influential 1982 book Megatrends, author John Naisbitt observed that “whenever new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response, or the technology is rejected.” […]
06 Apr 2016
Album Mini-review: Matthew Bourne — moogmemory
File next to: Philip Glass, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Brian Eno The Memorymoog was the last synthesizer produced by Moog Music during the original company’s run; while a deeply […]
15 Mar 2016
Album Review: The Dining Rooms — Do Hipsters Love Sun (Ra)?
More even than the album title, the title of the tenth track on Do Hipsters Love Sun (Ra)? sums up the musical approach of The Dining Rooms on their twenfth […]
10 Feb 2016
Album Mini-review: Endless Tapes — Brilliant Waves
File next to: Brian Eno, Lunatic Soul, *Low-era David Bowie Considering the pedigree of the better-known half of this duo, one might expect Brilliant Waves to lean in a muscular […]
21 Oct 2015
Ozric Tentacles: Thirty Years and Still Underground
Ozric Tentacles is that rare group that appeals to fans of trance/rave, techno, jam, psychedelic, and space/progressive rock. Founded in Somerset, England – they currently make their home in Colorado […]
17 Aug 2015
Album Mini-review: Moby — Hotel:Ambient
File next to: Brian Eno, The Orb Brian Eno once described ambient music as the aural equivalent of wallpaper; it’s designed to be experienced passively rather than attentively. It does […]
14 Aug 2015
Album Mini-Review: Todd Rundgren/Emil Nikolaisen/Hans-Peter Lindstrøm – Runddans
File next to: Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, Tangerine Dream This would be noteworthy if only for the fact that Todd Rundgren rarely collaborates with other artists (Utopia, Ringo’s All-Starrs and that […]
02 Jun 2015
David Torn: The Audience is Here (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… “So,” continues guitarist-composer David Torn, “I don’t intend to recreate any of the pieces on only sky in live performance. However, I can accurately recreate the […]
01 Jun 2015
David Torn: The Audience is Here (Part 1)
As I would discover within the first moments of our conversation, it’s inaccurate to describe the music made by David Torn as “avant garde.” Which is fine, really, because as […]