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On Record: Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Pete Harrison: Adam Saunders Orchestral Music (Heritage Records)
3+ hour, 24+ min ago (330+ words) Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Pete Harrison, Gavin Sutherland (The Magical Kingdom), Barry Wordsworth (Journey to Lapland) Recorded 4 February 2023 at CTS, Wembley (The Magical Kingdom), 12 September 2023 (Journey to Lapland) and 2, 3 January 2026 (all other works) at Henry Wood Hall, London Reviewed by Richard…...
#AmbientAugust no.29 – Loscil – Iona
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (95+ words) Arcana.fm My favourite musician in the ambient sphere working today…Loscil finds music of rare natural purity, often evoking the stunning British Columbia coastline where he lives: Published post no.3,000 – Sunday 30 August 2026 © Ben Hogwood and Arcana.fm, 2024. Unauthorized use…...
#AmbientAugust no.28 – Steve Reich: Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (128+ words) Arcana.fm It is curious that minimalism – often a genre with a great deal of musical activity and kinetic energy – has provided some of the most ambient music in the modern canon. A prime example is the Music for Mallet…...
#AmbientAugust no.25 – The Orb – O.O.B.E
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (147+ words) My first encounter with their music was in the mid-1990s, a late-night listen to the second album U.F.Orb that proved pivotal. As the opening track, O.O.B.E., made itself known, a kind of aural bliss was achieved there and then, weird yet completely…...
James Murray – Arcana.fm
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (189+ words) Reviewed by Ben Hogwood James Murray’s contributions to the quiet details series now number three, building on the Slowreels – Everyday Exotic collaboration with Ian Hawgood and Weeds, his debut solo album. What’s the music like? Murray has a special way…...
Ambrose Akinmusire – Arcana.fm
1+ week, 3+ day ago (161+ words) Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Taylor Eigsti (piano), Harish Raghavan (bass), Kendrick Scott (drums), BBC Concert Orchestra / Miho Hazama Royal Albert Hall, LondonThursday 20 August 2026 Commemorating Miles Davis in the year of his centenary was an obvious inclusion for this year’s Proms, and…...
Miho Hazama
1+ week, 3+ day ago (161+ words) Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Taylor Eigsti (piano), Harish Raghavan (bass), Kendrick Scott (drums), BBC Concert Orchestra / Miho Hazama Royal Albert Hall, LondonThursday 20 August 2026 Commemorating Miles Davis in the year of his centenary was an obvious inclusion for this year’s Proms, and…...
#AmbientAugust no.14 – Future Sound of London – Lifeforms
2+ week, 4+ day ago (175+ words) by Ben Hogwood The ground breaking Lifeforms album from 1994 was one of the standout works of a prolific time for ambient music in Britain. It is effectively a single track, progressing over an hour...and Cascade sets the tone. See…...
#AmbientAugust no.11 – John Luther Adams – Become Ocean
3+ week, 3+ hour ago (328+ words) There is something very elemental about the music of John Luther Adams, and witnessing Become Ocean live made a very strong impression. Listening to it literally repoints your brain, as I discovered back in 2018 with the London Contemporary Orchestra. The…...
#AmbientAugust no.10 – M83 – Coloring The Void
3+ week, 1+ day ago (133+ words) by Ben Hogwood I have always admired the ability of Anthony Gonzalez to paint expansive musical pictures in his work as main writer for M83. However he is an extremely effective ambient writer too, as he showed on the largely instrumental…...