Short but sweet recent documentary about American new age music pioneer Iasos. From Jacob and Nick @ Far Off Sounds: Far Off Sounds, a webseries about obscure, unusual, and ecstatic musical experiences, presents Iasos, a mini-doc about one of the founding fathers of what is now called new age music. When Iasos performed for […]
Hands up who doesn’t touch their CD collection much anymore? I see plenty of hands. Until a few weeks ago, mine included. I still own a truckload of vinyl and CD’s. But neither has been getting much love from me in the past five years or so. It hardly needs saying, but I’ll say it anyway: file downloads […]
Enjoy my new mix spotlighting the deep, seductive, personal sound of American synthesist-pianist-composer Tim Story – chamber music for the 21st century. With a rich catalogue reaching back to the early 1980’s, Tim Story remains a highly distinctive voice in American ambient. The 90 minute mix spans his first album (1981) to his most recent (2014) and touches […]
I’m very happy and relieved to re-launch Ambient Music Guide as an all-device-friendly website. The responsive layout works on desktops, tablets and phones. It took me 7 months of work to design and build this baby – I hope you like it. Please post a comment on FB or email me if something on your […]
“Go as deep as you can go.” – Stephen Hill 40 years is a long time for any radio show. For a radio show that plays music not easily defined or understood by many, an unbroken 40 year run seems little short of miraculous. Yet Music From The Hearts of Space still stands, a testament […]
And so it came to pass, so many years after leaving our shores. Kicking off the second leg of their 2012-13 world tour, the recently reformed Dead Can Dance gave a focused, powerful performance at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday night to a rapt home crowd. Astonishingly it was the duo’s first Australian show […]
Last week (Sept 15) marked three years since the untimely passing of Pink Floyd co-founder and keyboard player Richard Wright. Never did a key member of such a major rock act have such a low public profile as did this quiet, unassuming man. He was nearly always in the background, by no means a media […]
