Steve Roach "The Delicate Forever"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Electronica, Ambient
Label: Projekt Records
Release date: July 11, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. The Delicate Forever (24:42)

2. The Well Spring (13:35)

3. Where the Mysteries Sleep (12:35)

4. Perfect Sky (13:45)

5. HearAfter (9:10)

Line-up: 
Steve Roach - all instruments

Description/Reviews: 

Steve Roach’s new studio release, The Delicate Forever, presents a reverie of gentle and etheric ambient sound meditations that awaken complex and resonant states of emotional and psychological perspectives. The nuanced, minimal electronics interplay with a masterful use of musical space, breath, silence, and rich textural colors in a subtle dynamic flow. Nurturing the senses in inexplicable ways, these sound paintings become an evocative environment for activating a state of rarefied reflections. 

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The Delicate Forever

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Erik Wøllo "Timelines"

Country: Norway
Sub Genre: Electronica, Ambient
Label: Projekt Records
Release date: February 4, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Inception - 06:39
2. Blue Rondo - 07:01
3. Color of Mind - 05:01
4. Visions - 06:11
5. Pathfinder - 07:29
6. Spirit of the Place - 05:15
7. Along the Journey -06:39
8. Timescape - 04:54
9. Ocean - 05:20

Line-up: 
Erik Wøllo - synthesizers, guitars and percussion

Description/Reviews: 

Timelines is the 18th solo album from veteran Norwegian ambient/electronic artist Erik Wøllo. It’s a warm, epic and shimmering cycle of memorable electronic music. Timelines continues in that tradition with nine engaging pieces exploring the idea of music and time: how elements of past, present and future affect a listener’s perceptions.
Layers of acoustic guitar loops and pulsation-patterns create the foundation on which Wøllo’s distinct melodic piano themes are played. The pieces bring emotional synth lines and powerful deep basses together with delicate percussion arrangements. As a natural and important counterpoint to the expressive piano themes, Wøllo’s electric guitar ebow solos are both intense and haunting.
Wøllo’s background in 70s prog-rock is noticeably present on this album. Strong rich themes, chords and rhythms all lead towards crescendos and counterpoints within the songs. Well-structured, yet all the while retaining a spacious ambient and cinematic feel, Timelines is a natural continuation of the electronic palette heard on Wøllo’s recent albums.

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3 tracks online

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Steve Roach / Kelly David "The Long Night"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Electronica, Ambient
Label: Projekt
Release date: January 21, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Last Light - 10:52
2. Season of Nights - 10:16
3. The Deep Hours - 12:25
4. Calm World - 13:06
5. The Long Night - 14:09

Line-up: 
Steve Roach
Kelly David

Description/Reviews: 

The Long Night is a deep-breathing sigh of the eternal nocturnal: gossamer atmospheres for the still hours of the night. Focusing on non-rhythmic, textural-harmonic electronic soundscapes, this collaboration unfurls like slow-moving, moonlit clouds. Although The Long Night leaves the lighted world behind, its midnight path leads to a state of gleaming serenity and calmness. This music is contemplative, though not brooding: a meditative environment filled with open spaces and tendrils of sound composed of shifting subtle moods and gleaming electronic passages.

The collaboration began during several late night sessions at Kelly David’s Denver studio, where the two artists carved-out the basic tracks using only analog modular instruments. The sonic palette expanded when the recording moved to Steve’s Arizona Timeroom studio, bringing in a deeper textural quality utilizing processed acoustic sounds and an expanded collection of analog and digital synthesizers, plus subtle outboard processing. The final mix by Steve further uncovers a dimensional depth, delivering on the subtle and intricate tones of David’s and Roach’s years of journeying the ambient night skies through the long nights.

The Long Night is a sixty-one minute mental excursion into unforeseen creative possibilities when the night becomes a special time beyond sleep, a contemplative zen noir of minimal radiant ambience.

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2 tracks online

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Alio Die & Sylvi Alli "Amidst the Circling Spires"

Country: Italy/USA
Sub Genre: Electronica, Ambient
Label: Projekt Records
Release date: January 21, 2014
Tracklist: 
1.The inner sea (silver sea) 05:33
2.Dreaming tree 09:05
3.Crepuscular birds 10:25
4.La grotta delle Naiadi 11:42
5.Numinous veins 09:11
6.Across a splendid vista 08:07
7.Revenir 04:28

Line-up: 
Sylvi Alli: Voice, percusion and electronics on 7
Alio Die: Drones and loops, zither, rattles and seeds
    with:
Lingua Fungi: zither and effects on 3
Lorenzo Montanà: electronics on 4

Description/Reviews: 

Amidst the Circling Spires is a captivating electro-ambient journey into an interior space, weaving visions of strong emotional impact. Sylvi’s heavenly voice drifts within the highly processed acoustic sounds created by Alio Die: a hybrid between – sonorous soundscapes and acoustic mysticism. The treated tones are an essential magma – organic and animated – luring the listener in like an ancestral call or an ancient saga. The loops, played with carillon, kalimba, zither, different objects and field recordings, blend into finely-detailed layered and treated.
Sylvi’s voice is intense and moving, evanescent and precise – each song a mantra exploring a unique soundworld. Her vocals interact deeply with the melodies and atmosphere of Alio Die as they weave together like dark roots underground.
The ecstatic and ritualistic landscapes that these artists offer shine with a magic all their own – giving rise to a multiple array of meditations perfectly mixed with unique pathos and abstraction.

Media/Samples 
2 tracks online

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Steve Roach "Future Flows"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Electronica, Ambient
Label: Projekt
Release date: April 23, 2013
Tracklist: 
1-An Omnipresent Sense Prevails - 10:58
2-Spectrum Of Change - 9:35
3-Air Meditation - 5:55
4-The Texture Of Remembering -11:14
5-Rapt In Night - 4:04
6-Heart Of Light - 3:52
7-The Future Flows From Here -16:59
8-Regeneration Revelation - 8:21

Line-up: 
Steve Roach - all instruments

Description/Reviews: 

Future Flows is the second piece of a triptych of discs that began with the excellent Soul Tones, and will conclude in a few months with the final, name-as-yet-unknown disc. As he moves into this next stage of the series, Steve Roach shifts from soft, cocoon-like soundscapes into big flows with more texture and a forceful presence, along with moments of encroaching shadow. In his press materials, Roach likens the music here to other “symphonic ambient” works like Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces.

Read the full review at hypnagogue.net

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3 tracks online

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