Summer 2009 Worth Watching
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* Gert Emmens The Nearest Far Away Place Vol. 2 (Groove)
Yes, the Internet is full of glowing reviews of this Dutch artist and with
very good cause. Emmens is an artistic powerhouse full of creativity, vitality
and style. Vol. 1 just amazed us.
- Rainbow Serpent Live
at Liphook (Manikin) Wow, how in the world we were not paying
better attention to the amazing duo from Germany!?! We've made up for it over
the past 24 months listening to nearly the whole discography, but suffice
to say for anyone looking for variety, great production, and genre crossing
synthetics, Rainbow Serpent has got in equal measure. Their latest live album
is worth your time.
- * Moonbooter Cosmoclimax
(MellowJet) Moonbooter, whom has gained attention composing,
remixing and more, should truly be on your aesthetic radar. The project (run
by Bernd Scholl) perhaps could be described as a hybrid sound melding trance
instrumentation with the more complex and varied world of electronic music.
- * Stefan Erbe Inside
the Images (Blue Room) Erbe has a long history composing
scores for planetarium productions. His latest release compiles compositions
that take one from stargazing to distant locations and back.
- * Spyra High Phidelity
(Ricochet Dream) One of the artists whom has most impressed the
crew here with both his professionalism and diversity is Wolfram Spyra. There's
just no two ways about it: he can move you with energy, sooth you with ambiance,
or shoot through noise to provide a radio wave of clarity and more. This release
on the USA label Ricochet Dream is collection of live material, predominantly
unreleased compositions, including a strong collection from his well received
Philadelphia concert.
- Ian Boddy The
Mechanics of Thought (DiN) Available exclusively from musiczeit.com,
Boddy has now released three live albums from USA radio performances sure
to push the boundaries of new instrumental music This is the latest release
from a 2006 appearance on Star's End, and far superior to mp3/iTunes compressed
formats, it's available as an uncompressed FLAC file purchase.
- Schiller Die Einlassmusik
4 (Sleeping Room) Schiller has done what few have by taking
an infectious progressive electronic sound into the musical mainstream. Christopher
von Deylen's latest album Sehnsucht is an amazing work in terms of
scope, variety and quality. Schiller also composes ambient music as prologues
to their spicy live events. This is the fourth collection of such music composed
for the Sehnsucht tour and anyone serious about contemporary ambient
should listen carefully.
- * Tangerine Dream Choice
(Eastgate) This is avery appropriate EP released to coincide with the
bands single (amazing, we agree to only perform one venue after more than
a decade absent from North America) USA concert. Appropriate in that it features
two great remakes of songs from American motion pictures.
- Food for Fantasy
Fruits of Fantasy (Spheric) Just in time for the warm weather
(in the Northern hemisphere, anyway) comes the newest Food for Fantasy album
from Robert Schroeder and Phil Molto. The project's return to the music scene
after a very long hiatus was more than welcomed by those who recall their
warm electro-grooves and guitar work. Now they keep the good tunes coming.
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