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Bakis Sirros possesses a refined instinct for shaping modular soundscapes, his approach grounded in a lineage traced back to early sonic navigators, where vintage machinery murmurs from afar and expansive emotional horizons gradually unfold.
His latest collaboration with Neo Ouija presents sound and vision in genuine metamorphosis, and stands as a clear highlight in our Best of 2025. Emerging from shadow and drifting at a distance, opener “Rejected” glides through calm blips, bleeps, and ambient electronic flutter, darker currents offset by an uplifting charge that gently invites reflection. “Logic Bending” follows, lifting atmosphere while rhythmic forms remain in motion; Sirros settles into downtempo strata, threading delicate fragments through soft glitch and shimmer, a familiar motif from his catalog quietly detonating from within.
Gentler moments surface in the sedated circuitry of “Soft Rain,” rise toward the IDM-tinged grace of “Dreamwave,” then culminate in the fully transporting journey that closes the record, “Inertia.” Here, Parallel Worlds opens broad sonic plateaus, carefully assembled with devotion to enigmatic realms, passing through luminous and obscured corridors alike, guiding listeners effortlessly between unseen dimensions. A masterclass in ambient electronic propulsion.
The visual fluidity and morphing forms of the cover’s art—where shapes seem to ripple and melt like liquid caught between states—are mirrored in the music itself, as Parallel Worldsquite literally opens doorways to other dimensions.
Kayla Painter is a guiding light in the modern experimental music world - with a list of achievements it’s impossible to sum up in this limited format. From a string of albums solo and in collaboration, to much in demand immersive live performances, to lecturing, to hosting radio shows and much more besides - all with widespread critical acclaim - she’s an artist with endless creativity and energy.
So I’m delighted to welcome her to quiet details with her stunning album, Tectonic Particles
A gorgeous exploration of textural and harmonic cohesion - full of delicate melodic phrasing, environmental recordings and nuanced sound-design - this is Kayla doing what she does so well, crafting beautiful sound-spaces to get lost in.
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I am also hosting Rural Electric, this week spotlighting Ringo Starr's new country album, Look Up
Wish You Were Here has been a mainstay on all-time greatest albums lists for decades. The multi-Platinum-selling #1 hit record was Pink Floyd’s first to reach the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, becoming the band’s fastest selling album. In 1973, The Dark Side of the Moon had taken Pink Floyd from a hugely successful breakout British band to one of the biggest rock groups on the planet. Wish You Were Here was the band’s powerful response to their newfound global fame.
Featuring the multi-part eulogy to Syd Barrett ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’, the hypnotic ‘Welcome To The Machine’, the scathing ‘Have a Cigar’ with its immortal line “Oh by the way, which one’s Pink?” famously sung not by Waters or Gilmour, but by non band-member Roy Harper, and the essential title track, Wish You Were Here is undoubtedly one of the most important album releases in the history of popular music.
The record’s themes of absence, isolation, transience, and comment on the insincerity of the music business are embodied in the iconic album artwork. The visual puns developed by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell at Hipgnosis remain instantly recognisable visual statements today.
Remembering that time, Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell said:
“In the 1970s, album covers were equally as important as the music, because the cover helped to sell the record. Record stores would carry 10,000 different images in album sleeves, so what we were doing had to look different and stand out amongst the crowd.
I remember turning around to Storm and saying, how are we going to set a man on fire? Because there was no digital way of doing it in those days. He said, Po, you’re just going to have to do it for real. That was it.
One has to remember that Pink Floyd were the only band on EMI and Capitol Records who had the rights to the creative – in terms of album cover – besides the Beatles. That’s why we were allowed to do what we wanted. It was brilliant. Just the same way that Pink Floyd were a very inventive band at the time, so were Hipgnosis. We were determined to keep that abstract, enigmatic image alive and hence, we were able to do that for Pink Floyd.”
In 2025 the ardent support and fascination surrounding Pink Floyd’s music remains. The newly restored version of their groundbreaking 1972 film Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII stormed box offices around the world, with the live album debuting at #1 on the UK Albums Chart, marking the band’s first UK chart-topper in eleven years and the seventh in their career. The film was praised by critics and audiences the world over, with The Guardian describing it as a “mesmerically peculiar portrait of a band on cusp of greatness.” 50 years since its release, Wish You Were Here sounds as resonant and vital as ever, and in reaching this milestone deserves to be celebrated anew. This special anniversary edition allows fans, for the first time, to delve deeper into a pivotal moment in Pink Floyd’s history.
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"This album comes with Classical and Symphonic background, some re-worked material that was released in 2001 already as a solo project, on this occasion with acoustic drums and guitar support.,
Studio Album, released in 2025
Songs / Tracks Listing
1. Epiqurium 1 (18:24)
2. Epiqurium 2 (5:07)
3. Epiqurium 3 (19:12)
4. Epiqurium 4 (4:21)
5. Epiqurium 5 (13:06)
6. Epiqurium 6 (5:04)
7. Epiqurium 7 (11:50)
Total Time 77:04
Line-up / Musicians
- Robert Webb / keyboards, Orchestral Synthesis and Webbotron
- André Schornoz / bass
- Timo Vuoppola / guitars
- Mattias Olsson / drums, percussion
Releases information
Composed by Per Sundbom
Additional compositions and arrangements by Robert Webb
Engineered by Robert Webb at Garden Shed studios, Greece
Produced by Robert Webb, Per Sundbom and Ingemar Hjertqvist
Cover: Dan Pettersson
Label: Self
Format: Vinyl, CD, Digital
June 1, 2025
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I am also hosting Rural Electric (Mostly) Country Music from 7-9 pm right after the Island Messenger.
This week's theme is traditional holiday songs performed by country artists
Ian Anderson about the song Birthday Card at Christmas: "My daughter Gael, like millions of other unfortunates, celebrates her birthday within a gnat’s whisker of Christmas. Overshadowed by the Great Occasion, such birthdays can be flat, perfunctory and fleetingly token in their uneventful passing. The daunting party and festive celebration of the Christian calendar overshadows too, some might argue, the humble birthday of one Mr. J. Christ. Funny old 25ths, Decembers…"
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California Guitar Trio - 10 Christmas Songs
Not that there is an abundance of progressive rock-tinged acoustic guitar trios among the ranks, but this aggregation stands tall among its peers as the guitarists' inventiveness surges forward with this altogether warmhearted reckoning of Christmas carols and other pleasantries. The guitarists' nimble yet at times forceful approach is wholly evident during their highly rhythmic spin on "Jingle Bells." They perform the classic "Greensleeves" with a sensitive, chamber-like approach while also tackling the Lennon/Ono favorite "Happy X-Mas (War Is Over)." However, part of the magic resides within the trio's ability to delve into the inherent frameworks of each song, while also reformulating themes and rhythms into personalized statements. Essentially, the artists have produced a rather poignant Christmas outing, awash with interweaving lines and lilting harmonies, as they complement their superior artisanship and forward-thinking deployments with a cheerfully rendered collection of holiday favorites.
Winter Solstice EP from Markus Reuter: Soundscape versions of traditional songs usually associated with this time of year, at least here in Germany. In addition to the meditative soundscapes (which are based on the series of pitches of each tune) I've also overdubbed straight versions of the original melodies. Enjoy this parallel universe... It's strangely hypnotizing. Only available from December 1st to December 31st.
released December 17, 2018
Cousin Silas - Variations on a Theme of Winter
ambient electronic experimental guitar sound alchemy soundscapes thomas mathie cousin silas United Kingdom
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I am also hosting Rural Electric (Mostly) Country Music from 7-9 pm right after the Island Messenger.
This week's theme is Funny Country Christmas Songs
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RELEASE YEAR: 2025
BAND URL: https://airbagsound.bandcamp.com/album/airbag-dysphoria-live-in-the-netherlands
A live album by Norwegian prog rock stalwarts Airbag is not something to be taken lightly; it is a huge-sounding representation of some of their most outstanding and inspired epics being performed by a tight, well-oiled machine that knows exactly how to stir the senses and stimulate the mind of the audience. Captured for posterity at the legendary and prog-friendly venue Poppodium Boerderij in Zoetermeer last year and bolstered by a perfectly crisp sound adding heaps of atmospherics to the proceedings, this offering serves as a great reminder of just how emotionally charged these fine compositions truly are and how well they translate to the live format and context.
Compared to their studio counterparts, the eight tracks included here contain a little more vigor and vibrancy, benefitting from being played organically in front of an appreciative audience. The pristine riffs and beautiful melodies steadily work their magic and transport you elsewhere, and although the arrangements differ very little from the studio versions, there is joy to be found in these slightly more muscular and punchy live pieces. Different nuances are highlighted and emphasized, thereby creating an excellent alternative to what it means to immerse oneself in the outfit’s richly textured world of sound. As fabulous are these chaps are in the studio, their Pink Floyd-esque material really comes alive on stage as evidenced by Dysphoria.
This is a wonderful celebration of a stellar (and ongoing) career and also a stunning display of just how fearfully ambitious and thoroughly timeless Airbag’s song material unarguably is. Old fans will want this, but newbies could potentially begin here also. If you are a fan of Steven Wilson, No-Man, and Porcupine Tree, you cannot allow yourself to miss out on this inspired act’s upcoming opus.
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