My good friend Phillip Wilkerson has another new release via the Timetheory netlabel.  It consists of two slowly moving abstract long-form pieces.

The album title pretty much says it all.

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Listen here and then snag the download via archive.org.

Endless Ascent

I would be truly remiss if I didn’t highlight a most excellent release by the inimitable Stephen Phillips on the Endless Ascent label.

Stephen puts out loads of great music, including plenty on his very own label Dark Duck Records (where he champions many other artists).  This, however, finds him really delving into some beautiful and gentle light ambient.

I like to see him exploring these gentle textures.  I’ve been listening to this one quite a lot lately.  I recommend that you do too.

It’s available for free at the Endless Ascent site.

It’s been a while since I stopped by Lucette Bourdin’s site and I’m so glad that I did so today.

She has posted a new collection of free ambient works entitled “Colors, Shapes & Rhythms”.  I’ve only just begun listening, but already it seems to stretch out from her normal sound.  The first track has hints of Berlin school rhythmic sequences and others contain more percussive elements than is typical of her work.

So far I like it.  But then again, Lucette consistently releases work of great quality and depth so I’m not surprised.  We’ll see what I think after some more listens.

DOWNLOAD IT HERE.

Arcticology

Listen to the first four tracks:

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I’m blogging this without even hearing it because I’m so excited!

My friend, Dale Humphries, has released a new album for 2009.  If it is anywhere near as brilliant as his other three releases then it’s bound to be amazing!

Altus has released an amazing new piece, the final installment of his Winter Embrace series.

This one is more orchestral than some of his other works and reminds me somewhat of my favorite Vangelis album, Soil Festivities.

I HIGHLY recommend this wonderful piece of drifting winter atmosphere.

Winter Embrace III

Long-form symphonic/minimalist ambient. A journey through white wilderness, and discovery of hidden vistas.I hope you enjoy this final chapter to the Winter Embrace series. There’s not much I can say. I feel that the music “speaks” for itself, and that my thoughts and emotions come out much more clearly through it.

News / Info from Altus (aka Mike Carss)

         Artist/Album (Label) – Track

1. Loscil/Stases (One) – Cotom
2. Wialenove/The Sea (LiminalRecs) – Deep
3. David Tagg/Skin Diagram (Archaic Horizon) – Tangled Nerves
4. Nightwind/Structures in Suspension (Jamendo) – Structures in Suspension
5. M. Persson Sounds/Compilation No. 1 – Etherealize
6. Deepspace/Subantarctic Sessions (Lunar Flower) – Mirror Sea

Artist/Album (Label) – Track

1. Elisa Luu/Floating Sounds (Phantom Channel) – R3son8
2. Phillip Wilkerson/Still Point (Earth Mantra) – All Is Always Now
3. Kendall Station/Nebulae and Gridlock (Endless Ascent) – Input Select
4. Palancar/Live at the Sky Castle (Earth Mantra) – Part 3
5. Annode/House of Tricks – Automatic Peace
6. The Inventors of Aircraft/Unknown Language (Serein) – Hazel
7. Ansiform/Collection – Memories II – Diary
8. Villages/The Last Whole Earth (Stereo-type) – Lasting
9. Mooma/Ambient Collective: Whispers In The Night – Where Are We Going?
10. Ryonkt/All The Things Which I See (Lunarflower) – Color and Form
11. Astrowind/Der Leuchtturm (Resting Bell) – Waiting For The Time
12. Soul In Limbo/Drone Download Project (Dark Duck) – I Am What You Will Be (Part One)
    

Artist/Album – Track

• _underrain_/иномирные – intro
• _underrain_/иномирные – unwitnessed
• Long Desert Cowboy/Finareia – 14.03.05
• Phillip Wilkerson/Drone Download Project Year 6 – Naos Drift
• Stephen Philips/Drone Download Project Year 5 – Drone 28
• Darren McClure/Unmoored – Thaw
• Cosmic Jazz Project/Drops and Silence – Dreaming
• Exuviae/Jamais Vu – How We Are Finite
• Annode/House of Tricks – Automatic Peace
• Tange/Tub Full of Tange – 14 May 2006

I realized during the show that the Cosmic Jazz Project album has gone missing from Jamendo, where I initially found it.  I’ll have to take this off my playlists.

Artist/Album – Title

1. Altus/Autumn Breeze – Falling
2. Streams of Europe/Meanders – Emergence
3. Fellirium/Sapphire – Shimmer
4. Copal River/Blood Red Bloom – Ancara
5. Simon Slator/Four Patterns – Four Patterns
6. Kit Watkins/Thought Tones Volume 2 – Tone 6
7. Arcticology/Deep Spring – Ceres
8. Sylvie Walder and Phillip Wilkerson/Transience – Lonely Afternoon Sleep

(The Walder/Wilkerson has yet to be released.  When it is I will post the link.)

This dual release from Fellirium/Wialenove was just released on Russian netlabel, liminalrecs.

It’s a relatively short release with the following tracks:

1. Fellirium – Glowing Mushroom – 10:34
2. Wialenove – Lost in Space – 10:34

Take a listen.

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I played it on Free Floating last week but thought I should highlight it again since it is now available for download.