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Diatonis (Diatonis/ MP3.com: The Convolving Universe

Read "The Convolving Universe" reviewed by John W. Patterson

by John W. Patterson
June 1, 2001

If you enjoy spectrally ambient choirs and echoes of things unseen calling like Sirens, beckoning, breathing invocations of unknown delights and distant realities – then by all means sample this release!It is ten tracks of looped, processed, mixed, twisted, multiplied and layered experiences of sonic deepness. Sometimes dark and mysterious — then light-filled infusions of grace and light, Diatonis never fails to deeply satisfy that curious void that serious ambient space fans can never seem to fill.

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Stephanie Sante (Sant: Immaculate Conceptions

Read "Immaculate Conceptions" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 2001

To see an artist’s progress and growth from one release to the next can be a truly inspiring event. Such is the case with Stephanie Sante’s 2001 Immaculate Conceptions release as compared to her earlier notable release. Sante’s newest creation is light years, infinite spaces, and billions of parsecs ahead of anything I have previously heard by her. The awesome sound-visions she has sculpted have propelled her, (in light of my well-trodden listening paths), upward to the hallowed ranks of ...

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Diatonis (Diatonis/ MP3.com: Landscape of a Dream

Read "Landscape of a Dream" reviewed by John W. Patterson

by John W. Patterson
April 1, 2001

Music reviewing, I confess, can be pure tedium – pop in the CD, open the liner notes, look at the press kit blurbage . . . yada, yada. You wait for the first track to cue up and you think to yourself, countless many times, “Here we go again,” and you let the music speak as you have before – but fortunately, you sometimes encounter “wonder and beauty” afresh. Such is Diatonis’ Landscape of a Dream.I found 110% ...

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