Sequences Magazine

Hi everyone, we have another array of musical gems to entertain you. It seems we have collected many ambient styles and symphonic excursions in this edition. It’s good to see we are represented by several new female musicians. The stillness and vulnerability of Lyndsie Alguire’s music, the re-release of Danielle Boutet’s 1985 album Pieces, which borders Chanson spoken-word jazz noir and minimalism, with Claire Deak’s solo work is heightened by her experiences building unique sonic worlds and swaying atmosphere. Steve Roach’s ambient classic Structures Of Silence is celebrating its now 40th anniversary with a beautiful remastered limited edition LP, 1CD & two bonus discs created in 2013 on the 3CD deluxe edition. Wayfarer Records has a sampler introducing artists from this US-based company specialising in electronic and ambient music genres. We begin with the superb new album Sacred Places by Hollan Holmes. Playlist NO 247 02.41 Hollan Holmes ’An Elevated Life’ (album Sacred Places) https://hollan-holmes.b

Playlist no 246 Part 2 00.00 Jeff Greinke ‘Cyclogenesis’ (album Oceanic) https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com 06.02 Jeff Greinke ‘Pressure Gradient’ 10.17 Solitaire ‘Fearless’ (album Fearless) ***https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com 21.36 Solitaire ‘Kabbalah’ (album Nocturnes) 26.38 DTime ‘In the Obscure Void’ (album In The Obscure Void On The Edge Of The Horizon) *** https://dtime.bandcamp.com 37.10 Ann Grace & Daniel Lowen ‘toros Mundos’ (album Otro Mundos) https://music.youtube.com/browse/UCq23fpZGDkIoLxbhaW1BpEA 43.06 Ann Grace & Daniel Lowen ‘Etérea’ 48.58 Aphir ‘Wait’ (album The Halo Is Shapeless) https://aphir.bandcamp.com/album/the-halo-is-shapeless-2 53.41 Aphir ‘A Grassy Road’ 56.35 Pietro Zollo ‘April Part 2’ (album April) *** https://piezoit.bandcamp.com 01.06.05 Viaicu Golcea ‘Limerence’ (album Psihodrom Compilation) https://psihodrom.bandcamp.com/album/v 01.11.35 Tukico ‘Hardcore Ambience#13-1’ (Live at Polaris Tokyo) *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXTKIzQ5vxU 01.20.11 Wolf Project

Happy New Year to all our friends & listeners from the team, Mike, Andy and, of course, our host, Karen. Moving house over Christmas has been a busy time for me. Now in temporary accommodation with my daughter & son-in-law before another move later in the year back to the UK. Since starting Sequences in a cupboard (yes, you heard it right) with just a cassette machine, I have come full circle being back in a cupboard again while most of my possessions are in storage with just one trusty Mac computer to work on. This edition will be the only podcast for this month due to the upheaval of the last few weeks. I managed to put together a two-part podcast—the first session featuring sequential, cinematic, neo-classical music and Berlin School. Part 2 delves into ambient light & dark, symphonic, world and even experimental noise. It’s with a heavy heart that I must say goodbye to a good friend I’ve known for several years in the electronic music scene, Wolf Red, who passed away just before Christmas,

Now you’ve gorged yourself on the festive spirit, and your loved ones drag some of you to those Boxing Day bargain sales. It’s time for the music with another special edition featuring VoLt, with band members Michael Shipway & Steve Smith’s solo & various projects. Two of my close friends in this genre have enjoyed each other’s company, especially on many memorable excursions to Germany & Holland to meet others with an energetic passion for electronic music. Sadly, Steve is no longer with us, but we will always have heartfelt memories of our time together. Download Bio: https://we.tl/t-epvURnSQwT Mick The ED Playlist No 245 Volt 00.00 Volt ‘The Far Canal Part 2’ (album The Far Canal) 2003 11.58 Volt ‘First Contact’ (album Star Compass) 2004 22.33 Volt ‘Through The Rings’ (album Through The Rings) 2005 35.44 Volt ‘Explosion Part 1’ (album Nucleosynthesis) 2007 47.35 Volt ‘Atavistic’ (album HJVI ) 2008 01.00.04 Volt ‘Circuits’ (album Circuits) 2012 01.10.30 Volt ‘Fermion’ (album Particles) 2013 01.19.55 V

This month’s first edition will be our last podcast featuring a full lineup of different musicians, with the finale for this year just before the Christmas holiday, another special on a well-respected band and their various solo and other projects. We are back with a more upbeat selection here, including melodic sequential music and several Berlin School-influenced tracks. Only one new name, B. Ashra, to add to the roster of the thousands of musicians/bands we’ve introduced over more than 30 years. We include two of his recent albums, which span ambient music’s dark & light side with meditational & ritual overtones. Talking of dark ambient, Vidna Obmana’s Dante Trilogy is a collection of his early 2000 albums Tremor Spore & Legacy. Kamarius, with his ritual, mystical sound, relaxing and enigmatic atmospheres. Pioneers of French electro,\ Space Art with ‘Personal Duty’, mastered by the legendary Michel Geiss and Dutch musician Remy’s most conceptual project, including a ten-piece choir. Steve Hillman has been

Those who join us for the first time on Sequences are Terminus Void’s ambient music from Seattle-based American musician. Peruvian avant-garde artist Manongo Mujica uses a fusion of electronics and cello percussion, creating a sound montage of immersive, hypnotic atmospheres. Two from Projekt, Alain Elettronico remixes from the label’s artists, uptempo melodies & rhythm-driven tracks and Swedish composer Henrik Meierkord, who uses the cello as his main instrument to create minimalistic ambient pieces. The View From Vega, an unashamedly vintage-sounding album in all its analogue glory from Ben Edwards, better known by his pseudonym Benge, has six tracks that slowly unfold their oscillations in organic melodic soundscapes. Ice Planet 9000’s track ‘Great Cloud’ is a celestial odyssey featuring cosmic soundscapes and music that ascend through a swirling super-massive nebula. We leave you with our two female musicians. Anna Wall’s album ‘Dream Theory’ is about music connecting to our conscious and subconscious min

After several years buried in books, manuals, patch cables and messing with a DIY synth, JakoJako (real name Sibel Koçer) was playing her first live sets in Berlin, spending every spare cent on Eurorack modules. The trio Emeralds with soaring sounds stylistically indebted to deep German electronic music pioneers. ACTIVE DARK FILAMENT is a Canadian electronic music artist creating textured cinematic compositions, often containing a narrative edge. Like nearly all of Inquiri’s music, there is a distinct element of heartache mixed with hope, elements of drone voice field recording and intense layers of sound to draw in the listener. From The Mouth Of The Sun is on a mission to bring its dynamic breed of electro-acoustic classical music to the masses this year. 'Seabuckthorn' is a guitarist meticulously putting together layers of overdubs, richly textured percussion and brooding reverb-drenched atmospheric sounds, lastly, White Noise From Electronic Toys creating music to calm down your mind during difficult tim

Just a quick intro: this will be the only edition this month due to being very busy with other projects, but an extended one, covering another hour of diverse electronic sounds. Most of the albums featured are new releases from previous musicians & bands who have over the years been with us on Sequences since our journey started podcasting in 2012. It’s quite a line-up here. We won’t go into details, but as always, definitely check out bio pages for more info on those appearing in this issue. Synth Replicants is our opening band, which has a completely new and unique sound, still synth-based but with an added guitarist; enjoy. Playlist No 241 01.40 Synth Replicants ‘In The Fading Starlight’ (album Time Of Legends) https://synthreplicants.bandcamp.com 07.26 Synth Replicants ‘A Hymn For The Pioneers’ 13.41 ToXyGeNeDK ‘Transitions Of Time Part 5 Extended’ (album Transitions Of Time) https://toxygenedk.bandcamp.com/track/transitions-of-time-part-5-extended 26.02 Michael Bruckner ‘A Secret Life Part 1’ (album

Our lineup in this issue includes the third volume of their benefit compilation of Various Artists From Ukraine, now 19 months since Russia invaded with no end in sight. Ambient space music, performed by David Luxton, was inspired by astronomy and celestial themes. His mission is to make transcendent music from the inner and outer worlds. Modular synthesis Ombre Cohen experimenting with semi-modular synths and an ever-growing Euro rack case. The latest addition to the Winter-Light’s artist roster, a new ambient drone project, is created by Dan Barrett, a.k.a. Aetherium Nebula. His primary focus is manifesting atmospheres inspired by the intersection of sadness, spirituality and far-future cyberpunk science fiction. With her love of Africa, Lis Addison uses electronics, voices, and nature sounds on the album, which are intended to blend equally into the music the way all beings work harmoniously in an ecosystem for its health and benefit, and our vintage track from Harvey Bainbridge surfs the ambience of deep

We kick off this edition with Robert Schroeder’s new release, ‘Into The Light’, drifting away into dream worlds by letting yourself be beamed into other dimensions with space effects, mysterious spheres, deep strings and dreamy melodies. Erik Wollo returns with an assemblage of acoustic guitars. Erik says everything you hear is acoustic, with no synths used on the new album ‘Cloud Of Strings’. One musician who has graced our airwaves many times has been ELEON. His new album is a stunning atmospheric world of divine dimensions with guest musicians, including Grammy-nominated recording artist David Helpling. Polypores returns for his second album on the Din label with ‘Multizonal Mind scramble’, a feast of modular textures and syncopated glitchy oscillators that swell and fade into strange sound worlds. On the female side, Lucy Claire produces a fusion of classical cinematic and world influences intertwined with bittersweet piano motifs. Now and again, we like to look back into the past, this time with Airsc

It’s always a pleasure to introduce musicians in Mick’s domain of Australia, which includes a relatively new composer on the scene, Matt Goodluck, who has a long history in the music business and is also a member of Australia’s largest Pink Floyd tribute act, Echoes of Pink Floyd as lead vocalist and tours nationwide. Cinematic ambient composer Paul Headon, a.k.a DREAMSCAPIST new album ‘Mind Space’, takes us further into what may be the unknown, meditation/atmospheric/ambient/music for sleep. As supporters of the female side of electronic music, not one but five grace our airwaves. Natasha Barrett’s artistic research project provokes a new awareness of our outdoor sound environment. Kirsten Agresta Copley is an international award-winning harpist. Hania Rani builds on earlier successes unfolding at an exquisite pace. Stefana Fratila ongoing creative research culminated in Sononaut, eight open-source VST plug-ins created for digital audio workstations, and welcome to the world of INSANIA (a.k.a Ryo Pike). E

Hope you all enjoyed the last edition, delving into the music of Bas Broekhuis Detlef Keller & Mario Schonwalder, more specials are to come later in the year. Now it’s back to our usual look at new releases from those musicians we featured over the years, including the epic journey-style album called ‘Oracle’ from David Wright & vocalist Carys, the calm & relaxing atmosphere in an ambient universe from Steen Chorchendorff Jorgensen. Experimenting with synthesised sounds, Rayspark Industries takes us to unknown territories. Focusing on the universe’s beauty, wonder & complexities brings us Infinite Universe by fellow Aussie Jim Ottaway. Romanian artist Kamarius, a world fusion of spiritual, meditative & cinematic sounds. The many styles of electronic music from the prolific UK musicians Ivan Black are just a few we are featuring with their new albums. We must say compiling this podcast has been one of our more laid-back editions for some time. We begin with Micado’s first album with nine tracks, all in coprodu

Feat: Thomas Fanger: Frank Rothe: Klaus Hoffman Hoch: Lutz Graf Ulbrich: Raughi Ebert: Thomas Kagermann: Frank Rothe: Frank Specht: Gerd Wienekamp: Dedicated to the Memory of Thomas Fanger 1962-2022 & Klaus Hoffman Hock 1951-2017 Download Bios: https://we.tl/t-IO2wh9Hc4x Playlist B.K.S. Playlist 00.00 Detlef Keller & Mario Schonwalder ‘Another Temptation’ (album The Two Piece Box) *** 11.29 Broekhuis, Keller & Schonwalder ‘An Imprombtu Item’ (albumLive @ B-Wave) *** 20.50 Fanger & Schonwalder Feat: Cosmic Hoffman ‘Cosmic (pre Earshot Mix)’ (album Earshot) 30.51 Mario Schonwalder ‘Earthtime’ (album The Eye Of The Chameleon) 1989 40.40 Mario Schonwalder ‘Memories Of Oz’ (album Close By My Distance) 1992 50.19 Bas Broekhuis Esher Drawings Part 4’ (album Esher Drawings) 1991 54.54 Fanger & Schonwalder Feat: Cosmic Hoffman ‘Woodland Mix’ (album Mopho Mr Babe Remixes) 01.01.37 Broekhuis & Schonwalder ‘Philadelphia Remix’ Repelen The Last Tango live 2011-2013) *** 01.07.17 Keller & Sc

It’s great to see the feedback from some of you who enjoyed the Modular/vintage edition. Now, back to our usual look at recent new releases, with another round of superlative sounds from musicians based around the globe. Seven new names added to the list include, Under Water Sleep Orchestra, a nightmarish trip within blurry worlds and a nostalgic journey of dark ambient with a cinematic edge. The duo A Winged Victory Of A Dividing Pair music built on their foundations in ambient and neoclassical. Dramón brings experimental climatic and noisy music inspired by ambient and electronics as the basis of his creation. Incorporating gentle guitar synth flute and percussion, dappled with nature sounds, comes from Carlos Denger. Known for his performances using lap steel, guitarist Frank Schultz takes a drifting journey into a cavernous and droning ambience. The unusual setup by Edouard Ferlet of two pianos, one of which is mechanical, echoes the work of Philip Glass or Nils Frahm. To stir emotions through well-orches

In this 4-hour special, we focus on musicians who have used new modular & vintage synths in their studios, with tracks taken from the 80s to the present day, which have been featured on various editions of our previous podcasts. Modular synths, once considered virtually obsolete, have been one of the most surprising growth areas in music technology over the last decade. The main appeal to musicians is obvious: their unrivalled flexibility makes them the most versatile form of an imaginable synthesiser. Customisation is one of the main appeals of modular synthesisers, with small-format and relatively cheap Eurorack is one exciting way that sound connoisseurs are building upon the classic sound technologies of the past while taking advantage of new alternative modules that are jam-packed with never-seen-before features. Download Bios at: https://we.tl/t-WtORXBud2P Playlist Modular & Vintage Synths Special Edition No 235 02.03 Steve Roach ‘Molecules Of Motion’ (album Molecules Of Motion) https://steveroach

With many recent releases, this edition gives us more ambient electro-acoustic & downtempo music, including two pioneering musicians from the 80s to the present day. Steve Roach with the 20th anniversary of ‘Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces, where the label Projekt collects all four parts into a single release — close to five hours of electronic ambient music, which allows the listener blissful hours on the high frontier between deep listening music and the spirituality of pure sound. The musical alchemist Robert Scott Thompson combines his mastery of the electroacoustic, acousmatic, contemporary instrumental and avant-garde genres on Placid. Our modular track comes from the album Myuthafoo, based on creative sequencing processes that playfully unravel Caterina Barbieri's deep-rooted interest in time, space, memory and emotion. Following lengthy negotiations upon the release of her 2022 debut, Nova Cat (yes, a cat), reluctantly agreed to Projekt Sam Rosenthal’s addition of ambient music to two tracks on her s

We welcome eight new acts to Sequences, including Christine Ott’s two bands, The Cry, an improvising trio with multiple textures & the duo Snowdrops, a unique combination of contemporary classical, jazz, electronic music and film score. With her distinctive voice Amaya (Maud Of Moth), a Madrid born residing in Edinburgh, dances all over her deftly woven compositions. Not using a name but numbers 58918012 score a pretty dark/melancholic/sad /cinematic and even a bit depressive sound—another stark & desolate release, ‘Hinterland’ from Electronic Death Black Dogs. Norwegian cinematic ambient electronic project LIGHTS A.M has everything from uplifting energy, playful sequences and experimental sound design to fearful moods and melancholic melodies. The collaborative project, From Overseas & City Of Dawn, brought together by a love of melodic guitar-based ambient music and tape loops, wrapping up with Slow Beethoven performed in the empty seven-storey steel water tank’s sonic environment, an extremely resonant spa

Only one edition this month due to moving my daughter & son-in-law out of my place into their newly renovated home. Meanwhile, I present our first Sequences audio tape from 1992 remastered was born from the demise of the UK Electronic music audio magazine, Inkeys and the short-lived Syntrax. Our debut edition, released in 1992, was the only one mastered on audio cassette, which, unfortunately, is now unplayable. This is a remastered version without the banter between tracks (we couldn’t extract) using the original CDs & cassettes (which, luckily, were okay). There were no downloads in those days. All promos came by post & visiting various festivals; the tracks on the original tape were cut short, but now they are complete except for those that needed an edit due to their length. I was a complete novice starting this project with no experience. I have to blame my good friend for many years Clive Littlewood (Electronical Dreams), for starting this audio magazine. Armed with only a cassette recorder, no sof

With a third of the year already gone by, the so-called pandemic has quietly dropped out from the main media news, but more worrying is the war continuing in Ukraine with no end in sight. As you know, we’ve supported Ukraine & Russian musicians with no malice to the latter, any music from them kept out of the politics of this war. The lineup for this edition is mostly names that have appeared before on Sequences, except for Alpha Romeo’s sublime mixes of retro synth urban vibes with quality production. Beatless mixtures of treated guitar and electronics inspired by nature and effects treatments by Trem 77. On Tone Science no 7 are modular synthesists Andrew Ostler, three aspects of drones sequences & audio processing, with Dark Sparkler creating a stormy shipwreck of a patch with siren calls & turbulent water., finally Shajan on the relaxing subtle and multi-faceted music from another excellent compilation from BSC Music. The vintage track comes from the prolific German experimental musician Conrad Schnitzl

As always, we are governed by the releases that come in every month; we’ve certainly had our fair share this time of ambient, symphonic, neo-classical & experimental stuff for this podcast. In addition to what would have been Vangelis’s 80th birthday, there are tributes from Michael Neil on his album ‘Into Infinity’, & Aural Films, with thirty-seven artists from around the world who have contributed their own reflections on his vast career, four & half hours of music, we’ve selected four tracks from this special collection titled ‘Tears In The Rain’. Someone you may not have heard of, Philip Jeck, who died last year, worked with old records and record players salvaged from junk shops. He really did play them as musical instruments, genuinely creating moving and transfixing music where we hear the art, not the gimmick. On the album ‘Stardust’ he collaborated with Faith Coloocia. We begin with Johan Tronestam’s latest release, full of melodic music on 'Cosmic Drama Part 2'. Download bio pages: https://we.tl