The Ambient Music Blog

Chris Harvey third album, called “Colonization” is out now (released in April) and Chris was kind enough to send me a copy to listen.

“Colonization” is really a great record, something between Electronica and Ambient (it is stated “Experimental Ambient Electronica” on the press release and that’s perfect description), a subtle mix between very calm atmospheres and some rhythms.

Chris Harvey is remarkably crafting 18 different ambiances, in a very unusual format, where tracks are short (1 to 5 minutes), delivering the heart of each song in a very straight forward way, not really usual for the Ambient genre.

From the press release :

‘Colonization’ continues to move his unique style forward, providing further melodic and sonic refinement to produce music from “the retro-future that may yet come to pass”, promising to be a treat for avid fans and those who prefer their electronic music to be aimed at their frontal lobes.

Cool stuff.

Visit the artist website : Chris Harvey “Colonization” & buy the record.

Tangram (aka Peter Fabok) just released a new ambient space music album : “Tepidarium“.

“Tepidarium” is a complete and free album to download in MP3 format, it is the second from Tangram, the first one was “Aura” another great release.

This record is very old Berlin school style, with lots of analog sounds and sequences… The tracks are reasonably shorts, if you except the 10 minutes masterpiece “Well tempered humidity” a song in the pure style of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream.

The quality of the record is top, not pure ambient, but very cool and relaxing sequencer music.

One of the masterpiece of the year… and a free mp3 download !

“Moon Ritual” is the first record of Ephemeral Mists, aka Brett Branning. You can buy the CD from his website as wel as listen to some sample on his MySpace account.

The music of Ephemeral Mists is really a mix of electronica, down-tempo, world music and ambient :

Ephemeral mists began its musical journey during the end of 2008, when composer, Brett Branning (Abandoned Toys & The synthetic dream foundation), began fusing his cutting edge ambient electronics with the ancient musical traditions and instruments of the middle east and far east. The result is a stunningly beautiful ambient world of sound that goes well beyond the cliches of the genre and reaches for daunting new artistic and creative heights.

The mix between modern sounds and old and traditional ones is really good, and both blends perfectly for our listening pleasure ! My preferred track so far : “Eastern channels” because I love electronica so much ! “Awakening spirits” is also a great opener for the record, and a good sample of Ephemeral Mists music…

Jean-Michel Jarre will be on tour in 2009 and 2010. Those who missed the last one may want to give a go to this one as all reviews of the last tour were fantastic !

Currently the dates published so far are for Europe only, but France is still not in and a lot more dates will be added to the rest of the world for September.

Don’t miss him this time, tickets are already for sale !