Sequences Magazine

With Christmas nearly upon us, we are going to take time off to chill-out after a busy year with the podcasts. This edition will be the only one for December so as a bonus, we have given you an extra hour of engaging music to enjoy. We would like to thank all of our listeners for your support tuning in throughout the year as well as a special thanks to the musicians who have given us such a range of superb music in 2020. I know it’s been a struggle for many of you where lockdowns have almost destroyed live music throughout the globe but at least it has led to the growth of Internet streaming of live performances. Let’s hope a New Year brings better news for all of us and we can once again appreciate playing to real audiences enjoying the atmosphere created by a live setting on stage. From all the team Mick, Mike, Andy & of course me, your virtual girl, Happy Christmas & a brighter New Year for all humanity. Playlist No 185 02.00 Orbifold C ‘Veil Of Memory’ (album Aperion) www.groove.nl 08.21 Orbifold C

We’ve been overwhelmed with so many promos coming in this month & busy with other projects we’ve decided to do two 3 hour shows parts 1 & 2. Many new names to include in these, so, we will go without the formalities of giving you a short info on those musicians to Sequences. Everything you need to know about the music, go to our podcast page on our website www.sequencesmagazine.com, for the bio pages on those appearing, enjoy the double edition. Playlist no 184 part 2 00.59 Moonbooter ‘Zeittunnel’ (album Beyond The Neon Lights) www.MellowJet.de 06.38 Moonbooter ‘Don’t Cry My Young Boy’ 13.54 Argus ‘Battle On Holy Ground’ (album The Garden Of Grace) www.argus-music.bandcamp.com 21.25 Ian Boddy ‘Omicron’ (album Axiom) www.DiN.org.uk 27.29 Robert Scott Thompson ‘An Open Door For The Escapologist’ www.robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com 33.23 Dark Sparkler ‘2’ (album Are You Working With Me, Or Against Me?) www.darksparklemusic.com 37.42 Dark Sparkler ‘Call IIa’ 42.18 Stimulus Timbre ‘Masana’ (album Unfolding Cy

We’ve been overwhelmed with so many promos coming in this month & busy with other projects we’ve decided to do two 3 hour shows parts 1 & 2. Many new names to include in these, so, we will go without the formalities of giving you a short info on those musicians to Sequences. Everything you need to know about the music, go to our podcast page on our website www.sequencesmagazine.com, for the bio pages on those appearing, enjoy the double edition. Playlist No 184 Part 1 01.27 Axess ‘Meditation’ (album Zen) https://axess.bandcamp.com 10.39 Axess ‘Zen’ 20.51 Stefan Erbe ‘No More Limits’ (album Breath) https://stefanerbe.bandcamp.com/album/breathe 25.51 Stefan Erbe ‘Damaged Not Dead’ 31.58 Stefan Erbe ‘Exhale’ 35.02 Brendan Pollard ‘Plinth’ (isolated Passages Two) www.brendanpollard.bandcamp.com 44.22 Helene Vogelsinger ‘Reminiscence’ https://helenevogelsinger.bandcamp.com/releases 53.00 Wormwood ‘Harptree’ (album My Two Minds Become Air) www.timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com 56.45 Aperus ‘Phase Shift’ (album Ar

Welcome our newcomers to Sequences who always surprise us with their form of electronic music added to the many thousands we’ve had the pleasure of bringing to you over the years. Construction is Nadya Peek & Marko Ahtisasri bringing a unique strong ambient laid back jazz influence sound. Syngate's latest offering A.D.S.R. is a music project of nameless people and their sound generators. A dreamer & love of creating spacious soundscapes NAmbient. The duo Phillip Wilkerson & Jourdan Laik known as Time Being, are in top form as they venture into over 70 minutes of deep-drifting, time-melting, soul-stirring bliss that hovers delicately at the fringes of darkness and light. Music composed by Sergio Mariani surrounding a Steel Guitar among other electronic instruments, to give you peace and tranquility for quiet moments of prayer, pondering, or just to take it easy and enjoy. As one of the three artists in the Band Airsculpture, Peter Ruczynski solo project Softbase is no stranger to the more esoteric and ambient

What a year it has been so far for us in Australia, droughts, floods, fires, fake news & don’t get me going on the worldwide pandemic, look on the bright side only ten weeks to Christmas, if any of us can enjoy it our usual way, It will be a milestone for me in 2021, 55 years since getting involved with electronic music, 30th anniversary of Sequences & if all goes well in this f***ked up world, our 200th podcast. In this edition we many of our regulars showcasing their latest songs and albums, just six new names to mention. A very unique style of dark ambient from Argyre Planitia. The duo Architects Of Existence, dynamic full of mammoth synths, in some instances near symphonic. Desensitized, Deborah Martin & Dean De Benedictis joined forces to craft a thought-provoking work of art, that combines ancient and futuristic moods into a captivating world of sound. Just a single from Lazy Pluto, although rhythmic and dance floor worthy, this track’s primary form takes on the immersion of transcendental meditati

Here we go again, another round of superlative sounds from musicians based around the globe. Let us get straight into the new names added to the list of the thousands who’ve given us listening pleasure over the years. Azu Tiwaline sound from the desert, drawing on Berberian and Saharan trance music that connects human beings with nature. Recorded on various fixed and modular analog gear during a particularly gloomy and rainy winter, US-based Corey Holmes. Pabellón Sintético performing entirely on the Moog Mother 32 & a member of the Argentina band Cartas De Japon, whose path ranges between cosmic, ambient, and sequenced electronic music. With a nearly 30 year career in the underground Chvad SB often leans towards an aggressive & industrial edge. The symphonic & classical scores of their music from David Pena & Terry Lee Nichols, the latter a message for all the earths people from the great late astronomer & science communicator Carl Sagan & finally experimental dark ambient music by Jason Herrboldt, producing

For our new listeners over the past few months, we are not here to give you cool chill-out mixes or easy listening stuff which some of you mentioned about. As we’ve said in previous years our mission is to bring you a very varied selection of music in our electronic music world that taxes the senses & perhaps gives you insight into sounds to take to another level in your enjoyment of a new musical experience, On the agenda for this edition are eight new names. Peppermoth, with his sonic palette leaning generously on his classical upbringing, sampling field recordings & the experimentalism of Kieldfal. David Pena whose compositions conjure vast worlds and cinematic visions through their evocative soundscapes. STRFKR using hardware synth tones bounced across the stereo field, gelling together for a listening experience that’s meditative and enveloping. A life deeply dedicated to music and the healing arts brings Serena Gabriel to team up with Steve Roach's unique atmospheric contributions, adding a soulful in

Welcome to Sequences. We are delighted to bring you another podcast flowing with so many aspects of electronic music, names who you all know with some of their latest works, & more new artists to grace our airways too. These include Jonny Woods 100% solar-powered studio featuring a variety of esoteric modular synthesizers, like those from Buchla and Wiard. Laroth & Spuntic on TXT recordings specialize in releasing ambient and downtempo IDM / Electronica, Merrin Karras mood with strong elements of Berlin School, space music, classic trance & ambient all intertwined. Magic Bullit (Mick Magic), a collaboration with french electro-experimentalist M. Nomized, a soundtrack to a film that does not exist by r.beny, Tauon a.k.a. Olaf Gretzmacher a German producer creates a percussive and spheric soundscape, & ‘White Noise’, the single from Sferix, a grooving & meditative chill-out track. On the ladies' side Ulla, letting space silence simplicity & repetition be her guide, Noveller forming unexpected sonic routes,

It’s great to see more new acts on our latest edition, eleven in total, Reinhardt Buhr creating a one-man improvisational band, hypnotizing drumming & ensnaring electronic patterns Andrea Belfi has become renowned for, Australian TheAdelaide, crafts soundscapes inspired by solitude & confinement, blessed with 80’s sound Cyclotimia heads towards rhythmic post-industrial influenced by Tangerine Dream & Klaus Schulze, very dark ambient with touches of industrial & horror recordings from Nox. Aubade, is a song or poem greeting the dawn. James Cooke a.k.a. Graintable, in a series of one-take hardware jams, three strongly inspired by the Berlin School of classical electronic music, Totemdag, Small Chief & Eirox, with Forest Robots work reminiscent of Erik Satie, Henryk Gorecki, Harold Budd, & Nils Frahm. More from the female side, Lisa Bella Donna using vintage synths, focusing on modern classical ambient sounds, the electroacoustic sounds of Olga Wojciechowska, & Angelina Yershova improvised piano keys & electron

We will keep this short with 19 artists on this edition, back to our usual 3-hour slot. All the genres you love in Electronic music are here from Berlin School to Ambient textures, experimental to modular scores. No vintage track this time with so much new music arriving. Opening track from Sam Rosenthal & Jarguna, their first electronic/ambient collaboration "Sun washed Evening Fire", featuring the Kosmische guitar of Erik Wollo. Playlist No177 01.30 Sam Rosenthal/Jarguna ‘Evening Market Of Petal Fields Part 3/4’ (album Sunwashed Evening Fire) *** www.projekt.com 05.49 AeTopus ‘Viridian Deep’ (EP Deep Variants) www.aetopus.com 12.20 Hyperkube ‘Realm’ (album Remnants) www.hyperkube.bandcamp.com 23.23 Hyperkube ‘Flux vs Flow’ (album Flux vs Flow) *** 33.08 Jim Ottaway ‘Clouds Hide The Sun’ (When Eternity Touches Time) www.jimottaway.com 38.07 Jim Ottaway ‘Diamonds in The Rain’ 43.33 Caterina Barbieri ‘Rebellion’ 51.00 Caterina Barbieri ‘Fantas’ (album Ecstatic Computation) www.caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.co

We’ve decided to extend this edition to 4 hours to accommodate a stack of new releases that have steadily come in over the last few weeks. I know this is a long session but you can always take time for a break, have a drink, or whatever you fancy. Before we get the show on the road, here are newcomers to Sequences, 4th Eden from Wales composing melodic, spacial tuneful sounds. If Massive Attack or similar got down in the mud and rolled around a bit they might end up sounding like Rites of Fall. A Kosmiche conjuration exploring spectral echoes, pulses, and harmonic figures phasing through time from Ogre. Listening Center, in growth dream-like melodies and electronic sound palettes. Michael Whalen a two-time Emmy award winner, a tour-de-force of electronic music which seamlessly blends his natural gift for melody with fresh textures and percolating rhythm, Rayspark Industries collaboration with Urban Meditation under the name of Apollo North, a collection of “experimental” ambient electronica, leaning toward

French musician Zanov, opens this podcast with his latest release “Chaos Theory”, composing music that is both simple & complex, orderly & unpredictable. The modular synth project of Helene Vogelsinger with her debut album, “Contemplation”, exploring a combination of evolutive patterns, ambient textures, voices, orchestral instruments & field recordings. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Leila Abdul-Rauf enters a world all of her own weaving brass, piano, and various other textures, into filmic soundscapes. Russian band Aesthesys, mixing progressive rock with touches of neo-classical sounds. Post-Folk space from the duo NIMH & Rapoon, on the Winterlight label. Italian ambient/electronic musician Jarguna and Swedish cellist Meierkord’s first collaboration, offering lush sonic detailing, a lacework of evocative ghostly strings and spacey shimmering electronics & Maria Warner created as an artist pseudonym for Michael Neil's excursions into Berlin School retro electronic music, are some of the many new albums r

Hi everyone, I hope you are all safe & well with the current pandemic, signs in some countries' normality is slowly opening up again. Introducing the feminine side, Japanese composer Ryo Utasato with a rich body of work that runs the gamut from electronica to ambient to world music to rock and beyond. Under her own name, Caroline McKenzie uses piano, synthesizers & her voice to make rather calming music, harboring from the worries of the day. Polly Fae’s new release’ Metamorphosis’ on Projeckt, an album laced with sensual vocals upon jagged, moody and somber electronics, balancing against an instrumental atmosphere of eerie calm. New York-born Berlin-based musician and filmmaker JJ Weihl, implementing drum machines vocoder, sound collage, theremin, and electric guitar, creating a small laboratory both in the studio and on stage. Various artists on Portals, featuring 13 tracks of Berlin school inspired electronic music from legends of synthesis like Steve Roach, Ian Boddy, and Steve Moore. With his second

We welcome you to another special edition, the music of David Parsons, an influential musician who has been so important in our genre of electronic sounds. I came to hear David’s music in 1983, the album ‘Sounds of the Mothership’ by accident when visiting a classical record shop, from that day I have a big fan of his unique blend of Western technology & Eastern music. David continues to live in New Zealand (or Middle Earth, as he has taken to calling it since his homeland became the cinematic home for The Lord Of The Rings trilogy), and still writes music for television and film. With his experiences traveling through Central Asia over the years have given him an insight into his own music. The darkness that has remained a defining element of his sound today, he says, “not darkness, really. It's more like a sense of awe. You go to the Himalayas and you hear the rumble of the ice and the low long horns of the monastery. Tibetan Buddhism has that darkness: it’s not evil, it’s the awesome power of the univer

I’ve got to say this is one of our more melodic, sequential & tuneful edition, but not without a few more ambient tracks of ancient-modern sacred space music, and experimental complex sonic tapestries verging on the dark side. We like to welcome the musicians featured for the first time on Sequences. Icing Wolf with her great mix of 80's EM, ranging from Jarre to TD, another melodic release from Liam Boyle, on Waveforms. From Tucson Arizona, guitarist and composer John Gregorius. creates his own wonderful blend of guitar-based music. Shinjuku Thief, classic Gothic, Industrial, Electronic, Ambient masterpiece, paying homage to German expressionist film of the 1920′s and supernatural horror from the 1500′s. Lively and spirited new work from Masa Takumi incorporating ancient instruments like the shamisen and the koto, a stringed instrument that is the national instrument of his native Japan, with modern sounds. Off-key melodies and gentle analog from the days of old by Letters Of Mouse, rounding up with João V

A couple of new editions to Sequences, Gloam Audiocraft, covering many crossover genres from dark ambient to neo-classical, two from The Ambient Zone, Benoit Pioulard relying on guitar & voice as a basis for his work & Luca Longobardi a classically trained musician interweaving electronic nuances & atmospheric soundscapes, a fragile skeleton of melancholy. Nicholas Gunn who has produced and composed over 20 solo albums, along with countless other productions, selling and reaching millions worldwide & two time Emmy winner and a Grammy nominee Paul Speer, active in the contemporary instrumental movement. New album releases come from Steve Jolliffe, Stefan Erbe, The Sailing Planet, Tedd Arnold, Steve Orchard, Wolfgang Nachahmer, AnAstromo, Alexis Nembrode, Kevin Braheny Fortune, Thomas Ikon & a track from Russian band Aesthesys forthcoming May release Alignments. The ladies represented by Macu & Ambient Fabric, processed guitar lines, vocals and field-recordings are the basics for her mostly improvised

As you know its been a trying time over the last couple of months for all of us as we fight, “the virus”, especially for our friends & listeners in Europe, UK & the USA who have lost many love ones. Here in Australia, we’ve been fortunate to have kept the death rate very low. With most of us in lockdown, we hope our latest edition will for the next 3 hours give you some relief away from this devastating disease spreading throughout the globe. From all the team Mick, Mike, Andy & Karen, stay safe & healthy. Playlist No 170 01.43 The S.E.T.I. Project ‘Done And Dusted’ (album We Lack Dreams) www.thesetiproject.bandcamp.com 15.31 Velvet Universe ‘It’s Getting Better/Music For Spacemen’ (album Voyager) 22.29 Moonbooter ‘Mono Ton I’ (album Both Sides Of The Moon) www.MellowJet.de 25.37 Moonbooter ‘Mono Ton II’ 30.49 Moonbooter ’Neil Armstrong’ 36.17 Andy Pickford ‘Drums In The Deep’ (album Nemesis 24bit collectors Edition) www.andypickford1.bandcamp.com 39.52 Andy Pickford ‘Inside The Circle’ 53.15 Chris

As we like to feature the female side of electronic music, we are happy to say the following are featured for the first time on Sequences. Carolina Eyck is known as one of the best theremin soloists worldwide. Polish multi-instrumentalist Olga Wojciechowska, known as Strië, a multi-instrumentalist whose work drifts between modern classical experimental music. Klairzaki is a one-woman-band composer, passionate of synths and drums since her childhood & finally a collection of sound meditations with flute harp electronics and pedal effects by Sarah Jane Hargis. The debut from the male musicians includes Portugal based FØREST FIRES, the new creative project of Pedro Barceló, the subject of climate and change and its consequences, through minimal and dense ambient electronica. Another Portuguese music project, Mikroben Krieg displays gritty undertones & experimental breakbeats with spacey melodies. Kyiv-based electronic/experimental music producer Stonefromthesky, & German Volker Rapp the founder member of the Ge

All calm here in Oz, for now, unfortunately this can’t be said about some of our friends in the UK, up to their waist in water over the past month. Onboard with this edition includes Hollan Holmes, ten impassioned electronic compositions influenced in part by the Berlin school. A compilation of dynamic, pulsating sequencer-driven pieces by grum~pe . Magnificent, majestic and immersed soundscapes created by Steve Roach. Lisa Bella Donna the multi-instrumentalist composer & modular synthesist. The universe of Nights Amore, emotional ethereal music that can be beautiful & sad, created under the influence of bipolar disorder during a 10 year period, with over 30 hours of music. One half of Coral Cave, Tito Voiighaus melodic rhythmical style. Presenting cosmic, spacey synth-rock David Wright, featuring the guitars of the late Klaus Hoffmann-Hock, just some of the excellent music to immerse yourselves into. The vintage track comes from Urban Sax, the French multimedia performance ensemble, on this early 1985 vin

It’s been a crazy spring/summer here in Oz, after all the fires & drought, the rains came, fires out but now the floods, landslides & extensive beach erosion, especially in New South Wales & Victoria. Heaviest falls in 30 years, some having a years worth in 48 hours & more to come. Let's look on the bright side we still have some storming music for you and I must omit it’s a very diverse selection. Philippe is a composer of new age music & ambient electro in the line of Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis & Era. Ex Tangerine Dream players Paul Haslinger and Peter Baumann new self-titled album Neuland. Exciting melodies and detailed subtleties of Mikael Fyrek. Through cosmic vortexes & comet zones the synthetic neo-kraut vessel E-Musikgruppe-lux-Ohr. Drawing influences from vintage ambient synth libraries, New Age/spiritual music and menacing horror film canon from Stateside Steve Moore, elements of genres as diverse as jazz post-rock and even classical can be heard playing their part in this original mind-bending