Sequences Magazine

This will be the only edition this month due to other projects. Luke Schneider represents a radical new approach to the versatile sounds of the steel guitar, a total reinvention of an iconic instrument. SUSS are the architects of ambient country, with their unique combination of classic Americana instrumentation, with loops and synthesizers, and the unearthly tones of Harry Bertoia sculptures, cluster of thin metal rods with small weights on top, Bertoia coined the term "sonambient". Manikin Records, celebrating its 30th year with a CD titled Third Decade 2012 to 2022, unreleased recordings from musicians who have released albums in that period. Playlist No 213 02.21 Sensory ++ ‘Viral Thoughts’ (album Lessons In Humility) https://jegelie.bandcamp.com 09.36 Cilvarium ‘Beyond The Shadow’ (album New Beginning) https://cilvarium.bandcamp.com 14.12 Rob Papen & Ron Boots ‘Klaus Schulze Tribute’ *** www.groove.nl 21.53 Cornel Hecht ‘PPG Sequence One (Ambisonic Headphone Mix)’ (The Lost PPG Tracks: Music From The

We have lost two of the most influential composers in the electronic music scene in just over three weeks. Klaus Schulze & Vangelis both had music careers spanning over 50 years. I had the privilege of seeing both musicians performing, only once for Vangelis at the Royal Albert Hall in 1976, supporting his first album for RCA, Heaven & Hell. Klaus Schulze as many of you know was a member of Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel & Cosmic Jokers before departing on a solo career with a prolific output of over 100 albums. Greek composer Vangelis was best known for his epic soundtracks to Blade Runner, Chariots Of Fire & more, renowned for harnessing experimental electronic sounds from Avante -Garde to Symphonic, a "one man quasi-classical orchestra" composing and performing on the first take. As we take our journey into this latest edition, let’s reflect with sadness on the power & majestic sounds these two incredible musicians have given us over many decades., R.I.P. Playlist no 212 01.09 Mike Hans STEFFL ‘Return 2’

Not one but eleven new faces to Sequences, including Karmacosmic, made up of four musicians, Rüdiger Gleisberg & Mathias Grassow, well known in this genre for over 40 years with Carsten Agthe & Dirk Schlömer, a musical journey to distant worlds, ambient pads meet spacey sounds and ethnic rhythms. Per Thomhav is Synth Replicants, a musician, composer, and producer whose music is influenced by Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Vangelis. The theme of 'Kshatriy' is based on drone style with ambient and noise elements, with no specific frames and accept any necessary sound sources
...with a delicate touch. American trio Dawn Chorus And The Infallible Sea, consists of zakè, Marc Ertel and Damien Duque. Together they're creating soft-textured and slowly unfolding sonic landscapes. It's been over four years since there was no new music from Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk. This time around, the duo heads in a slightly different direction. 'On Eight Fragments Of An Illusion', they bring their individual strengths

Emma was formed in 1994 by a team of fans and musicians who gathered together to create an organisation promoting electronic music in the UK, producing a regular newsletter and holding yearly festivals. 1994 saw two festivals in Derby, England, the first showcasing the best UK acts inc, John Dyson, Andy Pickford, Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve. The second saw a more international lineup inc. Jonn Serrie (USA) & TK (Germany) both were very successful events. In 1995 the venue was switched to Sheffield. Again, the show had an international flavour with the highlight of two of our most successful artists, Ian Boddy & Andy Pickford, headlining. After those successful festivals, we were looking forward to more years devoted to EMMA, unfortunately, after some heated exchanges during our monthly meetings, with many leaving, left the remaining members said they could not carry on. Sequences editorial staff who were part of that team decided to go it alone with the EMMA name. Hence two years later, in 1997, the fourth E

The adventure continues now, coming into the Easter break, with some of the latest releases in our world of electronic music. Steve Roach & Jeffrey Fayman’s 2002 album Trance Spirits remastered, orchestrating a thunderous sound, with an expansive array of synthetic soundworlds, textural guitar and timbre-rich Middle Eastern and West African-influenced drumming. Composed over ten years by David Helpling with guest musicians comes the double album IN, exploring the magic of space with its cinematic overtones that ascend to shattering crescendos. Enter London-based trio, Decommissioned Forests, an ambient-infused, post-industrial journey through uneasy electronica, accompanied by a sometimes bleak, sometimes hopeful spoken-word narration. Russian artist Non Dolet, Slavic folk-tinged melancholy, and pseudo film soundtrack infused beauty of a most original sounding nature. Once again, Divine Matrix and Johan Tronstam’s quality of music recalls the classic 80’s style of Tangerine Dream and other luminaries of the g

Another collection that’s seen more ambient, ethereal, atmospheric music for our second March edition. Always eager to hear a new album from Steve Jolliffe; like the last few releases, just one track of changing structures & sounds. New faces to grace our airways are Elinch from German, a modular synthesist whose calm, slow-moving sound canvases develop into minimalist ambient epics. Female artist Allegorist has been meandering through stories with her purposeful and introspective take on electronic music, with London-based musician and filmmaker going under the name of Blessed Are The Hearts That Bend has a soundtrack to a non-existent film; listeners can create the movie in their head as the album washes over you, a film without pictures. It was totally unexpected to hear about the recent passing of Thomas Fanger, a significant player as a solo artist & with his collaboration with Manikin musician & label owner Mario Schonwalder & friends over the last couple of decades. As we sadly say farewell to Thomas,

Over the last month, we’ve had very little in the way of Berlin School & the more uptempo electronic genre, giving way to a large number of promos heading our way carrying the musical styles of modular, symphonic, neoclassical & diverse selection of ambient sounds. Once again, introducing new exciting artists in many fields, fifteen in total. It’s been a while since we played some vintage sounds, from the late 90s into the new decade are two tracks from the group influenced by Kraftwerk, Elektronische-Maschine. To celebrate the music of the first 25 years, Timescape have a series of compilations released with Instrumental vocal and ambient highlights, with a track from their new EP “The Endless Journey” recorded in 2021, opening this edition. Playlist 207 01.46 Timescape ‘Destination Unknown’ (EP Endless Journey) http:/www.timescape.dk/ 05.52 Elektronische-Maschine ‘Electro Feelings’ (album Das Netz) https://elektronischemaschine.bandcamp.com 2003 11.03 Elektronische-Maschine ‘Retrospection’ (album Energy

Welcome to another extended edition highlighting our goal to give you an expansive range of electronic music which taxes the senses and emotions. Fourteen new artists appearing, reflecting a very harmonious range of tones, melodic and rhythmical for some, others going beyond the norm to the experimentation side of unusual sounds in this genre. Too many to mention, I will let the music do the talking with our opening tracks from Stefan Erbe's new album Distopia. Playlist N0 206 01.34 Stefan Erbe ‘The Day We Lost Ourselves’ (album Distopia) https://stefanerbe.bandcamp.com 07.42 Stefan Erbe ‘Forever’ 13.02 Nattefrost ‘Midnight Forest’ (album Dendrophile) https://nattefrostdk.bandcamp.com 21.03 Nattefrost ‘Defend The Nature’ 24.32 Micado’Voices’ (album e(M)otional (M)oments) https://micado.bandcamp.com 31.00 Micado ‘Abstract’ 38.51 Micado featuring Small Chief, Owann, Hyperkube, Sensory++ ‘Departure To Heaven’ (album One Week In Heaven ) 45.19 Micado ‘Celestial Dream’ (featuring Owann) 51.43 Eraldo Bernoochi

G’day to you all from around the world. Once again, the music beckons your attention and hopefully livens up your day. You know what to expect, sounds to please the ears and heart. Most of the artists you recognise here preview their new albums and tunes for the first time on Sequences. Just three newcomers: from Austria, Johannes Winkler's debut album ‘Vogelperspektive’, the former pilot takes us on a journey through soundscapes and ambient structures inspired by a legacy of airborne perspectives. The synth sisters Mareena & JakoJako, two talented musicians and friends, embark on a joyful voyage through sound, fully immersed in an all captivating wall of sound, and finally, a bit of a mystery, translated from Chinese, Cipher Zero, on a label of underground music based in China. We dive straight into the second album by Holland Holmes on Spotted Peccary. Here we have a plethora of synthesizers ebb, flow, and surround each other like shifting tides in a sonic mix of Berlin School sequences, traditional melodi

It’s certainly starting off this new year with a host of new releases, already filling this one & our forthcoming Feb edition, featuring some of our well known musicians with their new albums, including who's music has spanned over many decades includes Airsculpture, Andy Pickford, Erik Wollo, Ian Boddy & Sam Rosenthal. It was great to see one of the old school, Peter Beasley back with a new album who has been fighting with Parkinson disease since 2002. We welcome three new comers to Sequences, Sarah Davachi with ambient drone on an epic scale, ethereal & expansive. The slow melody & harmonies of Chrys Bodcast space journey, & the band Bodhiheart, 4 highly respected musicians who have performed & recorded with some of the greats in various genres. The opening track from Airsculpture, a lockdown recording with the original concept, was to lead on it being a Halloween broadcast, with lots of spooky darkness. In the end little of this survived and it ending up touching all kind of musical bases. Definitely our s

Happy New Year to all our listeners, friends & musicians. Making their debut on our first edition of 2022 are the band 70db consists of two well-known musicians Steve Schroyder & Wolfram Spyra, plus Rainer Vonviel, Udo P. Leis, & B. Ashra, with a live set of electronics commissioned for the 100th birthday of the Schöneberg Town Hall in Berlin in 2014,. The special thing about the live performance of "70db" was the use of 3 real church bells weighing tons on the stage to use with the music. Argentinian transgender woman Sofía Lecuona Pugno, (a.k.a Nait Saves) expresses ethereal ambient glitchy electronica & minimalistic piano music. Camila artist name Caminauta, an Independent composer and ambient musician dedicated to films soundtracks scores, and interdisciplinary art projects, & Ajna & Onasander join forces to create a dark and brooding soundtrack to one of the most highly attested witches in Latin Literature, Canidia, evoking the heinous deeds of Canidia the Witch, propelling the listener into her ancien

Sequences Podcast No 202 (extended edition) This is our last podcast for this year, with some great music to finish it off with. It’s certainly been another 12 months of never-ending constant media attention, fear & panic about the pandemic. As we all were looking forward to the Christmas holidays, now comes the rhetoric of a new variant. Here we go again more lockdowns, mandatory jabs & for the unvaccinated especially in my home state Queensland, locked out of many pleasures in life of going to pubs, cinemas, festivals, gyms, clubs, etc. On a lighter note music has certainly taken away some of the stress we’ve endured over the last 12 months. It’s been another year for us of countless new artists appearing on Sequences with 15 new names to finish off within our extended 4-hour show. Abraham Fogg begins our last journey of the year with a powerful & dynamic blend of electronica, techno & chamber music. .Sequences Podcast No 202 01.58 Abraham Fogg ‘The Ceremony’ (album Blakulla) www.abrahamfogg.com 06.16

Happy to say we had a great response to our 200th Special Edition with over 3700 plays just on Soundcloud alone, one of the ten music sites Sequences can be heard on. Once again it’s a big thanks to all the musicians who gave their support & music to this show, many of those Mick has known & met over the years in this scene. This is the first of two editions for December with the second one another extra hour added to accommodate the large number of promos submitted over the last six weeks. Just a few new names to add to the long list of musicians & bands we’ve introduced over the last 9 years of podcasting. A deeply intimate exploration into downtempo realms on Over The Moon from the dynamic producer Keerd, thoughtfully constructed, melodic and alternating between ambient and sophisticated beat-driven explorations. Paolo Angeli, the Sardinian sorcerer, manually magics beautiful multi-layered music from his unique prepared guitar, achieving the tonal range and sonic pressure of a post-rock ensemble. 21-yea

Two hundred, not out! Sounds like a cricket score but in fact, it’s a measure of the achievement of Mick Garlick in publishing ‘Sequences’. Initially, an audio cassette, then a magazine/CD, and now a podcast. Sequences magazines were compiled by Mick with reviews and interviews by several other contributors, all edited by Mick into a cohesive look at contemporary and vintage Electronic Music. One of the main contributors in the early days of Sequences was Carl Jenkinson, who has reprised his role for this special 200th issue and prepared a look back at some of the people and events he recalls from the time he spent with Mick the ED): to be found on our Podcast web page with messages from several musicians Mick has known over zillions!!! of years, 31 tracks kindly submitted by familiar names in the scene, many of them especially composed for this edition. (Michael Shipway) 01.58 Volt ‘Quantum 200’ www.groove.nl 10.19 Ian Boddy ’Silver Surfer’ https://dinrecords.bandcamp.com 15.55 Andy Pickford ‘Altitude’

Finally welcome to another extended podcast no199, filled with great sounds from recent album releases before our 200th special edition with exclusive tracks from well-known musicians to celebrate 30 years since the formation of Sequences, beginning with audio cassettes, progressing to magazines with accompanying CD, podcasting from 2012. & Mick’s journey in electronic music started 55 years ago, (yes he’s that old geezer). We kick off with two legends & pioneers of electronic music Steve Roach & Michael Stearns collaborating on Beyond Earth & Sky, this is, celestial stunning boundary-defying music. Playlist No 199 01.48 Steve Roach & Michael Stearns ‘Primal Return’ (album Beyond Earth & Sky) www.projekt.com 07.19 Steve Roach & Michael Stearns ‘The Long Road’ 18.31 Ian Boddy ‘For Here To There’ (album Nevermore) www.DIN.org.uk 33.12 Frore & Shane Morris ‘The Eye Of Everything’ (album Horizon) www.spottedpeccary.com 45.11 Rodrigo Passannanti ‘Once In A Lifetime’ (album Inner Dialogues) https://rodrigopassa

It’s the Australian way, g’day possums, welcome to Sequences, lots of new tracks for you to hear, a cracking set of truly gifted musicians, many again appearing here for the first time, plus some of our regulars, who always come up with some outstanding music as well. Extended for another half houår for your enjoyment, the list is long & as always we like to bring you more female artists, seven in total with some breathtaking sounds here. Just a quick word on our 200th edition which is on time for an October release, with most of the tracks composed especially for Sequences which was started 30 years ago on audio cassettes, after the demise of the excellent In keys & Syntrax. Playlist No 197 01.44 Nadia Struiwigh ‘Starring’ (album Pax Aurora) www.nousklaere.bandcamp.com 05.55 Nadia Struiwigh ‘Organic’ 12.43 Oleg Byonic & Yana Chernysheva ‘Across The Ocean’ https://olegbyonic.bandcamp.com 19.13 Intelligentsia ‘Ethnogenesis Part 1’ (album Ethnogenesis) www.Intelligentsia.bandcamp.com 24.02 Intelligentsia ‘

Playlist No 197 . Six new names to add to the list, two from Cyclicaldreams label, Mind phaser & Francisco Nicosia, the former a cerebral and emotional exploration of time and space. Gifted female Serbian producer Lydia & Singto Conley beautiful symphonic scores with soft electronic piano melodies. The most deeply relaxing calming music by Chuck Wild is known as Liquid Mind, & dark mysterious ambient sounds on the collaborative album by Subterranean Source. Group Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sequencesmagazine/ Website: www.sequencesmagazine.com Email: sequencesemma@gmail.com michael.garlick@icloud.com Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/sequences-magazine-podcast/id500441651 https://soundcloud.com/mick-garlick Latest edition on the German radio show: Modul303 http://modul303.com/ Player FM: https://player.fm/series/sequences-magazine Listennotes: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/sequences-magazine-sequences-electronic-6qYJ3ndPT_z/ Amazon: all editions from no 44 to t

"FOR THOSE TAKEN TOO SOON" 00.00 Michael Garrison ’To The Other Side Of The Sky’ (album In The Regions Of Sunreturn & Beyond) www.groove.nl 05.18 Michael Garrison ‘Shadows Of Time’ (album An Earth-Star Trilogy) 10.08 Carlos Guirao ‘Walking Across The Garden Of Your Mind’ (album Revelation’ *** 22.09 Carlos Guirao ‘’Pista7’ (ensayos bajo una tormenta) 29.00 Jacek Spruce (E=Motion) ‘Hesitation’ (album Infinite Motion) www.syngate.net 36.11 Jacek Spruce (E=Motion) ‘Gobal Beat’ (album Dream Within A Dream) www.syngate.net 41.11 David Ward Hunt: Wavestar ‘Timenode’ (album Zenith) ***www.groove.nl 51.58 David Ward Hunt: Wavestar ‘Edge Of Morning’ (album Moonwind) www.groove.nl 01.01.02 Patrick Kosmos ‘Airgasm’ ( album Trance Neutral Zone) www.groove.nl 01.10.42 Patrick Kosmos ’Lucid Dreams’ (album Lucid Dreams) *** 01.18.03 Char-el ‘Into The Infinite’ (album Heaven & Earth) https://char-el.bandcamp.com 01.28.27 Char-el ‘Aurora’ (album Worlds Without End) 01.34.16 Gert Van Santen: Waveworld ‘Fundamentals’ (DVD Fu

Just one podcast this month, but extended into a double edition with over 40 artists appearing. Part 1 featuring more uptempo sequential rhythms, berlin school & melodic synths, which are colorful, lively & in parts intense. In part 2 the ambient side, some dark & experimental, others more ethereal & spacial, with symphonic scores, new age & downtempo music too. Check out all these musicians & bands on our website’s podcast page, which includes artwork & info. Playlist no 195 Part 2 00.00 Jim Ottaway ‘Alpha Crucis’ (album Focus Zone, Music For Studying) www.mindfulmusicassociation.com 05.42 Meg Bowles ‘The Ridgewalker’ (album Focus Zone, Music For Studying) www.mindfulmusicassociation.com 13.35 Ambiente Solstice ‘Awaken From A Dream’ (album Abandoned Peace) www.higherlevelmedia.com 20.11 Ambiente Solstice ‘Atmospheric Phenomenon’ 24.52 Nivhek ‘After It’s Own Death Side A’ (album After Its Own Death/Walking In A Spiral Towards The House) *** www.grouper.bandcamp.com 35.45 Max Corbacho ‘Catacombs Of Percept

Just one podcast this month, but extended into a double edition with over 40 artists appearing, part 1 featuring more uptempo sequential rhythms, berlin school & melodic synths, which are colorful, lively & in parts intense. In part 2 the ambient side, some dark & experimental, others more ethereal & spacial, with symphonic scores, new age & downtempo music too. Check out all these musicians & bands on our website’s podcast page, which includes artwork & info. Playlist no 195 Part 1 01.38 Colin Rayment ‘Bullet Train To Kyoto’ (album Polyphonic Memories) www.colinrayment.bandcamp.com 10.43 Fanger & Schonwalder feat: Lutz Graf-Ulbrich ‘Tränenpalast’ (Analog Overdoes) www.manikinrecords.bandcamp.com 16.08 Fanger & Schonwalder feat: Lutz Graf-Ulbrich ‘Eichkamp’ 22.49 The S.E.T.I Project ‘The Emperor Moth’ (album Mad Dog Daze Part 2)*** www.thesetiproject.bandcamp.com 32.42 Sojus1 ‘Zero’ (album ORWO) www.sojus1.bandcamp.com 38.34 Alan Elettronico ‘Electric Dream’ (album Electric Mind) www.projekt.com 43.41 Mic