Sequences Magazine

It’s been a busy month again outside the music scene and with so many promos coming our way, decided that in the time we had between other projects would compile & release together two separate editions for November, giving us a breather for our last sessions of the year in December. The first podcast, no 221, features melodic uptempo music, progressive, sequential & energetic, with Berlin School-influenced tracks to round off a storming set of sequencing heaven for some of you. In the second, no 222, we delve into ambient music, the light & dark side, experimental and neo-classical, creating atmospheric futuristic & dramatic soundscapes, genuinely engaging. PlaylistNo 222 01.00 Desensitized ‘Logic Of Expression -Praetoreum’ (album Chaos In Premonition) https://desensitized-spm.bandcamp.com 05.41 Desensitized ‘Ionic Realms -Victronomy Plubonius’ 10.48 Nova Stellaris ‘Astralis’ (remastered) youtube.com/channel/UC4_iagpF5T44XKQda7aVh9Q 13.57 Nova Stellaris ‘Starscape (remastered) 20.09 Nova Stellaris ‘Tri

It’s been a busy month again outside the music scene and with so many promos coming our way, decided that in the time we had between other projects would compile & release together two separate editions for November, giving us a breather for our last sessions of the year in December. The first podcast, no 221, features melodic uptempo music, progressive, sequential & energetic, with Berlin School-influenced tracks to round off a storming set of sequencing heaven for some of you. In the second, no 222, we delve into ambient music, the light & dark side, experimental and neo-classical, creating atmospheric futuristic & dramatic soundscapes, genuinely engaging. Playlist No 221 01.32 Ian Boddy ‘Teutonium’ (album Coil) https://dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album 08.02 4th Eden ‘Ghost Machine’ (album Epsilon) https://4th-eden.bandcamp.com 15.57 4th Eden ‘Ad Astra (To The Stars’ (album Delta) 24.05 Projet Ophite ‘Pary’ (album EDIA)https://projetophite.bandcamp.com 30.07 Projet Ophite ‘Tuchide’ 36.20 David Wright ‘Reco

Ten years ago, our podcasts were released on iTunes. We’ve had many requests from listeners who didn’t use iTunes, saying they would like to hear early shows not available on any of the music sites we published on now (Soundcloud is popular). Your voices have been answered with the very first edition. Over time we will bring the missing podcasts up to date on those websites. Sequences was born out of the demise of the very first UK Electronic music audio magazine, Inkeys and the short-lived Syntrax and became a major UK electronic music magazine. Formed in 1991 as an audio cassette and no 14 to the finale issue in 2009, no 32 as a printed magazine/CD. In 2012 we published our podcasts on the internet, beginning with a nostalgic look at musicians featured on our CDs, which came with every issue of the printed magazines and not forgetting our early cassette tapes. Each edition was available on iTunes monthly. To date, this has increased nine more music sites, including Soundcloud, Player FM, Listennotes, Am

With Mick being occupied with other commitments, this will be the only edition for this month. You know what to expect, music to please the ears and heart. Most of the artists you recognise preview their new albums and tunes. Just a few new names on this latest podcast. Sébastien Guérive with his new single "Omega VI”, an extension of the album composed during the period of creation of the live show to introduce a more rhythmic piece, using a semi-modular synth improvisation around a theme to obtain a heady and atmospheric trance.The album GERRY, (Music Inspired by the Motion Picture), composed by Sylvain Textier, creates a neoclassical project with pop influences as romantic as the poetry from Lamartine, which inspired him, and Maciej Raurowicz (a.k.a. Macraur) creates electronic music based on repetitive and melodic motifs and loves to play the piano. We begin with tracks from Eagle’s recent output, Chocolate Cosmos with Brian Brylow, a.k.a. Parallaxe & Daft Muzak for Radio Volume 1, this music has added

Ron Boots is among the most engaging Electronic Musicians ever exporting music from The Netherlands. Since the late 1980s, his work has been rooted in the Berlin School yet reaches far beyond the basic fundamentals of the genre. Combining elements of Contemporary Instrumental, Film Soundtracks and Spacemusic, Boots' music moves easily between the mainstream and the cosmic. In 1995, together with Kees Aerts, Ron founded the well-respected Groove Unlimited label. This was initially a vehicle for Ron and Kees to release their own solo albums and collaborations, such as BAH. The label has continued to this day, with an ever-growing worldwide roster of Electronic artists. Kees left Groove in 2011, leaving Ron to continue alone, but they parted as friends. Playlist 00.00Ron Boots ‘Acoustic Shadows’ (album Acoustic Shadows) 2006 07.45 Ron Boots ‘Eric V/D Heijden & Friends ‘Mercalli’s Scale’ (album More Live, By Popular Demand) 1992 19.28 Ron Boots ‘Cries In The Mist’ (album Various E-Scape 2018) 2018 27.48 Step

Andy, our team member, is finding it hard on his memory which is understandable after having a stroke, to carry on trying to update the website for the time being. I will post the bios as PDFs on our Facebook group page, giving time for Andy to improve. Always a pleasure to welcome new faces to the long line of musicians we’ve had on our podcasts since 2012. Los Angeles-based artist and producer Cynthia Bernard, known as Marine Eyes, is one half of the ambient duo Awakened Souls with her debut solo album ‘Chamomile’. Tewksbury’s new record ‘Brutes’ is just that, made up of just two expansive pieces. Interestingly, these loops were recorded on gargantuan 60-foot analog tape reels, then played through eight guitar amps at once, which were actually highly listenable. Orchestra Indigo produces larger-scale compositions that tend to be minimalistic neo-impressionist works that are always designed to evoke emotions, Omri Cohen and Snoopy Over The Hills, who have a common passion for ambient music created using mo

SEQUENCES PODCAST NO 217 The good news is Andy, our team member, is steadily improving and has now managed to update the podcast page on our website. Welcome to the musicians on Sequences airing their music for the first time, and we have two stars that are worlds apart in their professions. Legendary vocalist and highly acclaimed film composer Lisa Gerrard has joined forces with Los Angeles-based composer/ record producer Marcello De Francisci, for the stunning new album 'Exaudia’, presenting a vivid collection of epic and empowering compositions,… and ex snooker world champion Steve Davis in the three-piece group The Utopia Strong, reflecting on their sound as an enlightening voyage into inner space, which moves into darker and still more evocative sound worlds whilst remaining fundamentally off the map. Danish composer Ole Hojer Hansen, producer, visual designer & musician, opens this session with two tracks from his 13th solo album Nox. Playlist No 217 02.39 Ole Højer Hansen ‘Grainy Day Opening’(album

I hope you all enjoyed our 80’s UK edition, with many hours of research going into tracing back musicians in that decade and trying to gather information from those who suddenly stopped making music in later years. We feature twenty-two new album releases, many names you know already, who have given us excellent sounds throughout their musical careers. Representing their debut on Sequences are Nox, dark ambient edged with industrial and horror recordings. Hailing from India, Sacred Seeds with strong emotive textures combined with melodic patterns. French composer Gpano, his music in the genre "ambient and ‘Berlin School. A new solo project by Nimrod Scott crafting ambient space music soundscapes. Collection of rare recordings of the St. Petersburg project Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, its author Evgeniy Savenko creating multi-layered visions of dreams from parallel worlds. Carsten Schnell, inspired by the music of Kraftwerk & Jean Michel Jarre, rounding up with Estonian Robot Koch’s remix of an album originally

This podcast is dedicated to those pioneering bands/musicians, of the UK Electronic/Synthesist movement in the 80s, with a selection of tracks from that decade. PLAYLIST 01.00 Mark Shreeve ‘Assassin’ (album Assassin) 1984 https://www.cd-services.com/markshreeve.htm 12.04 Wavestar ‘Cabala’ (album Moonwind) 1987 https://johndysonwavestar.bandcamp.com 20.53 Ian Boddy ‘Déjà Vu Part 1’ (album The Climb) 1983 https://dinrecords.bandcamp.com 29.06 Paul Nagle ‘Le Lay’ (album The Path) 1984 https://paulnagle.bandcamp.com 36.21 Peter Beasley ‘York Aspiring’ (album Coruscation) 1987 https://peterbeasley.bandcamp.com 46.35 River Of Dreams ‘Rendezvous’ (album Return Journey) 1986 self-release 54.02 Gyn Lloyd Jones ‘Icesteps’ (album Icestep) *** 1989 www.synthmusicdirect.com 01.04.49 Kevin O’Neill ‘Island Suite’ (album Islands) ***1987 https://kevinoneill1.bandcamp.com 01.15.09 Mike Brooks ‘Dangerous Vision’ (album Dangerous Vision) 1987*** self-release 01.22.33 Adrian Wagner ‘Ice Planet’ (album Merak) 1988 R.I.P https://

Our team member Andy is on the road to recovery after suffering a stroke and spending 91 days in the hospital, hopefully, we will be getting our website updated with the bio’s for no 207 to our latest 2014. A few more new names appeared for the first time. Brooklyn-based composer and producer Rachika Nayar finds the protean guitarist and producer expanding on the ghostly netherworlds of her debut with vivid fluorescent cinematic maximalism. Two new releases of dark experimental ambient drone music on the Russian label Zhelezobeton. Using analogue synths & field recordings, Field Lines Cartographer often creates dark, occasionally bucolic soundscapes. Joseph L Young’s fifty-five-minute excursion into a sonic landscape shifts under the listener's feet with twists and turns. Cass Anawaty & Brian Fechino presents a collection of four pieces that range from pensive and reflective ambient meditations using mainly guitars, & Psycho & Plastic’s latest single lingers in the memory once it’s passed, the merging of del

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