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Galactic Travels Monthly Special Focus Log - 2007



The Special Focus for January was
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Before Klaus Schulze started his solo career with the release of his first solo LP "Irrlicht" in 1972, he was instrumental in the development of Krautrock and the Berlin School of electronic music.   Since then, he has continued his leading role in the field of electronic music as well as performing in collaborations with important artists such as Solar Moon, the Cosmic Jokers, and Pete Namlook, just to name a few.

This month's Special Focus on Klaus Schulze centers around the Deluxe Edition reissues being released by InsideOut Music's Revisited Records sub-label.   (And you thought InsideOut only dealt with Progressive Rock!)

Klause Schulze has previously been the Special Focus on Galactic Travels: Click on the name, photo, or logo above to go to the artist's website.

Date Title
01/04 Irrlicht
01/11 Angst
01/18 Cyborg disc 1
01/25 Cyborg disc 2



The Special Focus for February was
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Atmospheric ambient music best describes the breathtaking soundscapes of Barcelona based artist Max Corbacho.   Combining the expressive power of contemporary synthesizer programming and digital processing with environmental recordings and unique sound samples, Max forms expansive aural environments that surround the listener, absorbing the senses and stirring the mind.

Whether exploring the contemplative, drifting harmonies, luminous textures and transparent layers of light or the unsettling, isolationist shadowlands, the drones and depths of darkness, there is an alluring beauty at the center of each composition, an organic heart, a human footprint.

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Date Title Label
02/01 The Resonant Memory of Earth Space for Music
02/08 Nocturnal Emanations Space for Music
02/15 Moontribe ad21
02/22 The Talisman ad21



The Special Focus for March was
Paul Lawler
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Paul Lawler began his musical career as a session brass player working with the Halle Orchestra and BBC Radio amongst many others.   After years of composing music in his own time he decided to make the transition into media composition on a full time basis following a series of television commissions for the BBC.   Equally adept with both cutting edge technology and classical performers his music has a very unique and contemporary style.   Paul has been in great demand since composing his first television score in 1998 for the BBC series Ancient Voices.   Other commissions include the major BBC series Apeman-Adventures in Human Evolution and Ancient Apocalypse.   Paul's music has been used on hundreds of Television shows from around the world including Saturday Night Live, The Montel Williams Show, The Late Late Show in the USA and the major drama productions Ice Age and Cobra, plus the feature film Countdown described by Hollywood moguls as "Russia's First Blockbuster" and "the most ambitious film to come out of Russia."

As a solo artist in the field of EM, Paul releases his music under various artist names.

You can visit Paul on MySpace and become his friend.

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Date Title Artist Label
03/01 Gather Darkness Arcane NeuHarmony
03/08 Bronx Shadows Paul Lawler Ricochet Dream
03/15 Future Wreck Arcane NeuHarmony
03/22 Resurrection Max van Richter NeuHarmony
03/29 33 1/3 RPM Arcane NeuHarmony



The Special Focus for April was
Jean-Pierre Saccomani
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If Jean-Pierre Saccomani has a website, I have not yet found it.   Watch this space for updates.   J-P Saccomani's CDs this are released on MCP Productions.

Date Title Artist
04/05 The Four Seasons Jean-Pierre Saccomani
04/12 Music for Time Jean-Pierre Saccomani
04/19 Equilibre thermique de l'igloo en phase de fonte. Jean-Pierre Saccomani and Jean-Luc Berthelot
04/26 Voyage Intersideral Jean-Pierre Saccomani



The Special Focus for May was
Steve Roach
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As a pioneering cornerstone of electronic music, internationally renowned artist Steve Roach has dedicated over three decades to exploring uncharted soundworlds that connect with a timeless source of inspiration.   From the expansive, time-suspending spaces reflecting his spiritual home in Arizona to the fire breathing, rhythmic-shamanic expressions woven from all things electric and organic, Roach has earned his position in the international pantheon of major new music artists through a long list of groundbreaking recordings, fueled by his prolific nature and uncompromising approach.   The core of this innovative world of sound has been nourished by years of intense live concerts in many extraordinary settings worldwide, further enhancing the emotive, cinematic soul-stirring depth of his music.

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Steve Roach has been a Special Focus on Galactic Travels a few times before:
You can visit Steve on MySpace and become his friend.

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Date Title Artist Label
05/3 Spirit Dome Steve Roach and vidnaObmana Projekt
05/10 Day Out of Time Steve Roach Timeroom Editions
05/17 Darkest Before Dawn Steve Roach Timeroom Editions
05/24 Immersion: One Steve Roach Projekt
05/31 Storm Surge Steve Roach NEARfest



The Special Focus for June was
Robert Rich
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With over 20 albums to his name, Robert Rich has helped define the genres of ambient music, dark-ambient, tribal and trance, yet his music remains hard to categorize.   Part of his unique sound comes from using home-made acoustic and electronic instruments, microtonal tunings, computer-based signal processing, chaotic systems and feedback networks.   Rich began building his own analog synthesizers in 1976, when he was 13 years old, and later studied for a year at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).

Rich released his first album Sunyata in 1982.   Most of his subsequent recordings came out in Europe until 1989, when Rich began a string of critically acclaimed releases for Fathom/Hearts of Space, including Rainforest (1989), Gaudi (1991), Propagation (1994) and Seven Veils (1998).   His two collaborations with Steve Roach, Strata (1990) and Soma (1992), both charted for several months in Billboard.   Other collaborations include Yearning (1995, with Lisa Moskow), Stalker (1995, with B. Lustmord) and Fissures (1997, with Alio Die.)   Rich's contributions to multi-artist compilations have been collected on his solo albums A Troubled Resting Place (1996) and Below Zero (1998).   He also records with his group, Amoeba, exploring atmospheric songcraft on their CDs Watchful (1997) and Pivot (2000).   His 3-CD live set Humidity (2000) documents the unique improvised flow of his recent performances.   Robert's 1996 concert in Allentown was the first music played on Galactic Travels.

Robert will be giving a workshop with Ian Boddy and performing at NEARfest this month in driving distance from WDIY.

Robert Rich has been a Special Focus on Galactic Travels before:
You can visit Robert on MySpace and become his friend.

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Date Title
6/7 Atlas Dei
6/14 Echo of Small Things
6/21 Calling Down the Sky
6/28 Electric Ladder



The Special Focus for July was
Jim Cole and Spectral Voices
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The music of Jim Cole and Spectral Voices features harmonic overtone singing where each vocalist sings two or more notes at once.   Spectral Voices' music has been described as mystical, wondrous, achingly poignant, contemplative, ethereal, relaxing, transcendent, hypnotic, powerful, primal, soothing, intense, meditative, and sublime.

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Date Title
7/5 Coalescence
7/12 Sky
7/19 The Way Beyond
7/26 Innertones



The Special Focus for August was
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Before Klaus Schulze started his solo career with the release of his first solo LP "Irrlicht" in 1972, he was instrumental in the development of Krautrock and the Berlin School of electronic music.   Since then, he has continued his leading role in the field of electronic music as well as performing in collaborations with important artists such as Solar Moon, the Cosmic Jokers, and Pete Namlook, just to name a few.

This month's Special Focus on Klaus Schulze centers around the Deluxe Edition reissues being released by InsideOut Music's Revisited Records sub-label.   (And you thought InsideOut only dealt with Progressive Rock!)

Klause Schulze has previously been the Special Focus on Galactic Travels: Click on the name, photo, or logo above to go to the artist's website.

Date Title Artist Label
08/02 Trance Appeal Wahnfried Revisited
08/09 Blackdance Klaus Schulze Revisited
08/16 Kontinuum Klaus Schulze Synthetic Symphony
08/23 Live (disk 1) Klaus Schulze Revisited
08/30 Live (disk 2) Klaus Schulze Revisited



The Special Focus for September was
Free System Projekt
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Free System Projekt started out as a solo project for Marcel Engels. Marcel expanded his project into a group that included two friends, Frank van der Wel and Ruud Heij. As a solo artist, Marcel has participated in some of the Ricochet Gatherings. As a trio, FSP has played in the US and at festivals in Europe. They have also played live on Galactic Travels (show #238). Their music stems from the Berlin School style of EM and grows from there.  

Free System Projekt has previously been the Special Focus (with Wave World) on Galactic Travels: Click on the name, photo, or logo above to go to the artist's website.

Date Title Label
09/06 Impulse 2005 Strange Charm
09/13 Protoavis Quantum
09/20 Moyland Quantum
09/27 Gent none



The Special Focus for October was
Origo Sound
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Origo Sound is a Norwegian label that concentrates on Norwegian artists. The music is in the ambient and ambient techno genres with some forays into folk, new age,industrial, and ethnic electronica.

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Date Title Artist
10/04 Communion Current
10/11 Exploring the Water Element Living Dreamtime
10/18 The Source of Energy Sverre Knut Johansen
10/25 The Second Dawn Dystopia



The Special Focus for November was
Paul Ellis
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Paul Ellis has been a member of Dweller at the Threshold and has also released many CDs as a solo artist.   Paul has also collaborated with such notables as Steve Roach and Craig Padilla.

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Date Title
11/01 Appears to Vanish
11/08 Into the Liquid Unknown
11/15 The Sacred Ordinary
11/22 Silent Conversations
11/29 The Infinity Room



The Special Focus for December is
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After more than a decade of playing live shows in his native northern California, Craig Padilla has become an internationally celebrated electronic musician.   His style reflects EM artists of the past while finding new, unique sounds and styles.

Using vintage instruments that lend themselves to the sought after, full bodied sounds EM afficianados crave, Craig also uses custom designed, one of a kind synths that, in many cases, have been modified.   Blending modern software synthesizers (softsynths) into the mix, Craig creates new sonic worlds of ambience and subtlety.   This would mean nothing if it weren't for Craig's melodic sensibilities to make music that captures the essence of humanity and are works of grandeur and timelessness.

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Date Title Label
12/13 Folding Space, Melting Galaxies Space For Music
12/20 The Light In the Shadow Spotted Peccary
12/27 Genesis Spotted Peccary

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