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Here's what Electronic Sound have to say about their latest issue...

Turn on, tune in, chill out. We're diving deep into the world of Ambient Music for the first Electronic Sound of the year and we're bundling the magazine with a superb double CD featuring 24 soundscapes [including a track by John Foxx] from across the spectrum of this fascinating genre.

The centrepiece of this month's cover feature is a jam-packed A To Zzzzz Of Ambient encompassing countless artists and records alongside labels, sub-genres, events, installations, books, fanzines, radio shows, concepts and much more. It's an entertaining as well as informative directory. Brian Eno pops up all over the shop, as does Alex Paterson, and the list also includes things such as Deep Listening, Whale Sounds, Drone Metal, Repetition, Tone Poems, Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals, Hypnosis, Floating, Ambient Church and Reversing Lorries. Yes, you read that last one right.

There's lots of other good stuff for you elsewhere this issue, including a rare interview with enigmatic Swedish maverick Karin Dreijer, aka Fever Ray. Acclaimed Northern Irish DJ and producer David Holmes meanwhile gives us the lowdown on his new solo album and cultural polymath Don Letts talks about the influences that have made him the one-man tour de force he is today. Plus Mueran Humanos, Universal Harmonies & Frequencies, Peter Howell, Bas Jan, Montañera and Alex H Duncan. The latter is a plant and fungi synthesist. Yes, you read that right too.



Electronic Sound are combining this month's magazine with Ambient Light / Ambient Dark, a magnificent double CD that brings together 24 ambient soundscapes spanning nearly half a century. Moving from weightless and dreamy drifters to eerie and unsettling atmospheres (and back again) over the course of its two discs, the full tracklist of this eclectic collection is:-

Disc One
01. Ho Renomo [Cluster & Eno]
02. Wenn Der Südwind Weht [Roedelius]
03. Phrase IV [Serge Blenner]
04. Atmosphere Part II (Edit) [Adelbert Von Deyen]
05. The Sea Inside [John Foxx]
06. Articulate Silences [Stars Of The Lid]
07. Quiet Joy [Pauline Anna Strom]
08. Desert Glass [Marta Salogni & Tom Relleen]
09. Hypnogogia (Featuring Dolphin Midwives) [Sophie Birch]
10. Winter Cop [Tim Hecker]
11. Under A Glass Bell [Patricia Wolf]
12. Light And Dust [Dasha Rush]
13. Botanical Garden Follow A Strange Illusion [Legowelt]
14. The Empty Vessel 013 [Mark St John Ellis & Lisa Gerrard]

Disc Two
01. dlp 2.1 [William Basinski]
02. Equal To No Weight At All [Marta De Pascalis]
03. CPR-12* [KMRU]
04. Heavenly Spheres [Penelope Trappes]
05. Snow And Pollen [Phew]
06. Coop [Philip Jeck & Chris Watson]
07. From The Earth To The Ceiling – Part 1 [Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook]
08. The Somnambulist [Legion]
09. Wuub (Edit) [Woob]
10. 9 Elms Over River Eno (Channel 9) [The Orb]



The magazine and accompanying double compact disc can be purchased from Electronic Sound's website...

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Rob

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