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Robin Spielberg

A New Kind of Love
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A New Kind of Love AV talks to Robin Spielberg
Ms. Spielberg’s music has ranked in the top ten in its category on iTunes, the digital on-line music service launched by Apple. Gaining new fans around the world via the world wide web has launched new interest in the artist’s work abroad. Several albums are now distributed in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and Korea. Her song “The Promise” provided the soundtrack for Mitsubishi’s car commercial in Taiwan. Last Autumn, Ms. Spielberg’s interview for PBS television’s Nightly Business Report focusing on the “new digital revolution in music” aired nation wide.
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Pete Kelly aka Igneous Flame
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AV's State of the Ambient Union 2008
Things have certainly changed from when I started looking
up ambient resources on the web a few years ago, some established sites and
forums have come and gone, but I think the main change is that the ‘ambient
world’ has become wider. Certainly for musicians, MySpace (in
particular) has really opened things up. While it has a lot of rubbish attached
to it, the networking side really does work. The correspondence I've had with
other ambient musicians has been very encouraging (the private messages thing
that goes on behind the scenes), as has been the comments and messages from
fans and 'friends'.
I would say that the vast majority of previously unknown
artists' music I've come across recently has been from MySpace and the 'viral'
nature of it leads to a degree of 'cross-pollination' that I don't think exists
anywhere else. I get friend requests from people outside of the ‘ambient world’
and I find this very refreshing. It’s the whole social-networking element,
which has brought about this diversification.
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A Warning from the Elders by Byron Metcalf
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AV's Spotlight Review
A Warning from the Elders by Byron Metcalf AV Spotlight CD Review
I have been listening to Byron's music for many years now and I have yet to be disappointed by any of his releases and none of his albums have ever been routine or repetitive in nature. Byron is not only an expert drummer but he is also a transpersonal guide and educator, a shamanic practitioner and holds a master's degree in counseling psychology. Impressive credentials but they would not mean much if he was unable to take his ideas from his imagination and bring them to fruition in the form of a finished audio experience. Never fear because Byron has never had that problem and A Warning from the Elders is proof that yet again he has drawn from the deep well of his spirit and is offering up music to the listener born out of those deep experiences that each of us has but never brings out into the light of day.
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Jim Cole

Innertones
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AV's CD Focus Interview
Innertones AV talks with Jim Cole
Jim Cole began practicing harmonic singing
in 1991, inspired by the unique vocal sounds of Tibetan monks and David Hykes
and the Harmonic Choir (especially their album Hearing Solar Winds). He founded Spectral Voices and then,
intrigued by the reverberant cistern recording of Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening, they found home in an
empty water tower. In 1996 he received
an artist fellowship award from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts for work
in harmonic singing, which supported the
production and release of Spectral Voices' debut CD Coalescence.
Jim has collaborated with Alpha Wave Movement (their CD Bislama released
on Spectral Spiral Music), Mathias
Grassow (The Hollow and The Last Bright Light), Kevin Makarewicz
(Labyrinth Walk Live), and has contributed to works by Paranoise
(Private Power, Ishq and numerous live performances - also with the
acoustic-based version of Paranoise: "Mawwal"), vidnaObmana (The Surreal
Sanctuary, The Contemporary Nocturne, and live in concert), Amir Baghiri
(Rooms), Steve Roach & Byron Metcalf (The Serpent's Lair),
Mike Hovancsek and Pointless Orchestra (Temporal Angels, Scattered
Meditations, The Angel Scratch Radio Project and Under Moons)
and several other projects.
Click here to read Jim Cole's interview about Innertones
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