10 netlabel ambient albums you should own, part 2
I was gratified by the response to my first of these posts, so lo, I presenteth another. Believe me, I could do this all the time. Netlabel ambient has been […]
JUSTIN SULLIVAN – Navigating by the Stars (2003) Intense pastoral beauty
Justin Sullivan is the lead singer and songwriter of legendary punk/protest/uncategorizable English band New Model Army, which got started in the early 1980s and is still going strong today. If […]
10 netlabel ambient albums you should own, part 1
I have about 10 years of catching up to do, so I had a brainwave: a series of posts highlighting the best free netlabel ambient releases on my hard drive. […]
ALTUS – The Sidereal Cycle 1-3 (2012) Netlabel goodness post 4
The day that I discovered netaudio was a happy day indeed. I had actually become really interested in ambient music shortly before that, somewhere around 2002 or 2003. I gave […]
NO-MAN – Together We’re Stranger (2003) Ambient folk perfection
The career of Steven Wilson has featured an interesting reversal in focus. Wilson’s name should be no stranger to lovers of ambient music or progressive rock. His band Porcupine Tree […]
LUCETTE BOURDIN (1954-2011) A retrospective
As a netaudio ambient music aficionado, I’ve developed a sense for sniffing out the best stuff, and as I’ve said before, the good stuff is as good as anything you […]
MY BROTHER THE WIND – I Wash My Soul in the Stream of Infinity (2012) Perfect neo-psych freakouts
Every now and then the jaded listener of retro-rock comes across something so great and so fresh-sounding that it restores his faith in the beauty of the analog. This album […]
IQ – Frequency (2009) Melodic perfection in the service of art
This is the first progressive rock album I have reviewed on this blog. So let’s get the nonsense out of the way. If you are one of those people who […]
WHITE BLUSH – White Blush (2012) Yesterday’s haze today
I was both pleased and concerned when I got my first actual request from an independent musician for some coverage here in my humble corner of the cyberworld. I mean, […]
HAWKWIND – Hawkwind (1970) For Huw Lloyd-Langton
Last week, Hawkwind’s original guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton passed away. I’ve spent a lot of time with a lot of Hawkwind albums over the years. God knows there are enough of […]
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