„Cousin Silas grew a beard, drew another flask of weird.“ – King Crimson: Happy Family Cousin Silas has been creating extraordinarily beautiful ambient music since 2001, drawing inspiration as much from the work of J. G. Ballard and H. P. Lovecraft as from Brian Eno or Michael Brooks. Favorite track: Endless Summer The Sound of Silas (waag_CDr001) by Cousin...

Meltstream really began in 2007 when Steve and Roy first met at Steve Roach’s Soundcurrent Masters Workshop in Sonoita, Arizona. During the week long workshop, the group would improvise over the music of one of the artists present with Roach doing the live mixing. Steve says, “Some of the most personally satisfying and compelling moments for me, were when Roy and I would combine sensibilities. There was a richness and depth there that I...

Barcelona based piano player and electronic musician Bruno Sanfilippo is a classically trained musician and composer who has been exploring the borders of minimal piano concepts and electro-acoustic music for more then 20 years. His CD series PianoTextures sets him in a direct tradition of artists as Harold Budd and Brian Eno, combining slow piano tunes with electronic soundscapes. With ClarOscuro he now makes his step into the genre of...

How to describe the music of Alpha Wave Movement without making links with Steve Roach? Beautiful and extremely enticing, with a delicate ambient approach tinted with these lines of synth which tickle as much that they attack the passivity of soundscapes, the music of Gregory Kyryluk is strongly imprinted of this West Coast School such as defined by Steve Roach or still Robert Rich. Composed between 2009 and 2014, “Archaic Frontiers” is...

Chris Russell originally released album Mystic Zones on MySpace.com in the year 2007, but it was recently remixed and completed in March 2014. Listen especially to Mystic Zone #4 – this is really great musick!...