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James Johnson: Entering Twilight
by John W. Patterson
I recently saw this release listed in a newsgroup as ambient music to fall asleep to I agree. This release of Johnson’s evokes that moment when you are coming down from awe or an intense epiphany. I mean it conveys that sense of relaxed but fading wonder, the in-between places of undirected contemplation.The ...
Paul Vnuk, Jr.: Silence Speaks in Shadow
by AAJ Staff
Paul Vnuk has done some fine ambient work in collaboration with Vir Unis" and Steve Roach in the last decade. Here he is on his own in an extended ambient atmosphere, a sound-picture" or as he calls it, psycho-environmental music." The album notes speak truth: The open windows and industrial sounds of a rain-drenched city can ...
Stefano Musso: Sola Translatio
by AAJ Staff
This esoteric recording by two Italians who go under many pseudonyms is definitely along the lines of the mystical American ambientmaster Robert Rich. This is not a surprise, as Alio Die" (Stefano Musso; the pseudonym means On another Day" in Latin) collaborated with Rich on the equally arcane 1997 album Fissures. Like Rich, the Italian duo ...
Vidna Obmana: Soundtrack for the Aquarium
by AAJ Staff
Vidna Obmana" (whose real name is Dirk Serries) evokes the sunless wet gloom of his native Belgium in this two-CD set which, as its name says, is music composed by Obmana as background sound for an aquarium installation. The first disc has seven sections of his atmospheric (or rather, aquatic) ambience, dating from '92 and '93. ...