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Quick Link – Coolstreams from Music Soujurn – Featuring Lotuspike Artists

Featuring Darhsan Ambient, Terra Ambient, Markus Reuter, Rudy Adrian, Johan Agebjorn and Spotted Peccary artists Between Interval, Deborah Martin & J. Arif Verner, Jon Jenkins & David Helpling and Erik Wollo:

http://musicsojourn.com/POD/Ambient/AC/index.htm

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Terra Ambient’s Wanderlust NOW AVAILABLE

Terra Ambient’s Wanderlust has hit the street

Following his widely acclaimed 2004 Lotuspike release, The Gate, Jeff Kowal (aka Terra Ambient) now delves deeply into his most personal space, sculpting a sonic cathartic experience for all to hear.

“It’s a journal,” says Kowal. “What started out as an expected sequel to my previous release, turned into an emotional sketchbook of some major changes in my life, including a move to the American Southwest.”

Previously on “The Gate”, Kowal used strictly acoustic and live recordings to express himself, but this time he turns to the use of electronics and synthesizers to find a deeper voice in Wanderlust. Kowal explains, “Re-integrating digital and electronic sound sources helped me to capture some of the gritty, subtle and grandiose sounds that this music needed.”

Wanderlust does in fact range from the subtle to the grandiose: epic, sweeping and luscious, Wanderlust plays more like a movie soundtrack than an ambient CD. Delicately balanced between tribal, ethno-acoustic earthiness and searing electronic pads and leads, Wanderlust takes the listener on a journey.

“Sometimes the music is expansive, sometimes it’s quiet and myopic,” says Kowal. “Once the project started to gel, it really became something to dive into and get lost with.”

Aside from synthesizers, Kowal brings many other acoustic and electric instruments into the mix, including frame drums and percussion, didgeridoo, electric guitars, bass, bansuri and PVC flutes, and a modular analog system.

For samples and to buy it, head over the the store >

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Terra Ambient on Stars End June Top 20

STAR’S END 1-6AM SatNite/SunMorn  88.5FM WXPN Philadelphia, PA
Top 20 For June 2009 (alphabetical)  Compiled by Chuck van Zyl

ARTIST – ALBUM – LABEL

Between Interval – The Edge of a Fairytale – Wanderings
Cluster – Qua – Nepenthe
Robert Davies – Gallery of Spirits – dataObscura
Steve Dinsdale – New Church – Northern Echo
Paul Ellis – The Last Hiding Place of Beauty – Groove
Forest Fang – Phantoms – Projekt
Arve Henriksen – Cartography – ECM
Johann Johannsson – Fordlandia – 4AD
Kevin Keller – Deep Flight – Zebra
Lammergeyer – Beginning to End – dataObscura
Mara’s Torment – Across for Show… – Atmoworks
Nils Petter Molvaer – Hamada – Emarcy
Palancar – Elysium Planitia – Blue Water
Robert Rich – Lumin: Live Archive vol 6 – Soundscsape
Bruno Sanfilippo – Auralspace – AD21
Scanner – Rockets, Unto the Edges of Edges – Binemusic
Saul Stokes – Metacollage – Stokesmusic
Terra Ambient – Wanderlust – Lotuspike
Tosca – No Hassle – K7
Various Artists – Pop Ambient 2009 – Kompakt

http://www.starsend.org