Thursday, February 23, 2023

Album Review: Slowly Falling (Extended Mix) by Jeff Pearce

Review by Candice Michelle


A top artist in the ambient/space music genre, Indiana based musician Jeff Pearce is best known for his pioneering and influential style of ambient guitar music that he’s been recording since the early 1990s. Released as an extended version of the nearly 17 ½ long piece “Slowly Falling” from his 4-track album In Winter released in 2021, Slowly Falling (Extended Mix) is a long-form album comprised of the hour-long title piece. Composed entirely on electric guitar, Jeff employs his signature digital processing, delay effects and layering techniques to create ethereally shimmering and multi-faceted textures.

Drawing creative inspiration from the natural environment, changing seasons, astronomical and meteorological phenomena, Jeff’s music is observational in character, yet also exudes a deeply emotive and personal quality that’s seemingly wrapped in an inexpressible mystique that is once again exemplified on this majestic composition of space-ambient perfection.

Transpiring as one continuous sound passage that paints wintry images of a cold, northern terrain, “Slowly Falling” feels evocative of being cozily nestled inside an aurora glass cabin, while its translucent shapes and intangible shadows of softy-swirling sonic encompassment are sure to have the listener ‘slowly falling’ into a deep dream sequence!  

~Candice Michelle for Journeyscapes 

For more information please visit the artist's website. Slowly Falling (Extended Mix) is also available at Bandcamp and more!

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Journeyscapes DJ Set: Winter Flight



An ambient winterscape for an imaginary night trek.

TIME / ARTIST / TRACK / ALBUM-EP
00:18 / Divine Matrix / Snow on Mars / Sequencer Drift
06:08 / Lars Leonhard / Space Phenomena / Spaceflight
12:38 / David Wright / Crystal Windsong / The Lost Colony
19:30 / Erik Wollo / Winter Tide, Part 8 / Winter Tide (Live at SoundQuest Fest 2021)
27:06 / David Helpling / The Cold Distance Between / IN
32:43 / Astropilot & Spacecraft / Northern Lights / Heavenly
36:22 / Tigerforest / Winter / Discovery
43:05 / Jeff Pearce / Slowly Falling (part 4) / Slowly Falling (Extended Mix)
56:15 / Pangaea Projekt / Solstice / Winter Vol. VII

Friday, December 16, 2022

Sunday, November 20, 2022

Journeyscapes DJ Set: Edenic Visions



An ambient/electronic mix inspired by paradisiacal mysteries.

TIME / ARTIST / TRACK / ALBUM
00:25 / Chronotope Project / Higgs Field, Cauldron of Being / Gnosis
07:25 / Divine Matrix / Magellanic Clouds / Sequencer Drift
14:46 / Lingua Lustra / Life², Pt. 2 / Life²
21:35 / Desensitized / Logic of Expression [Praetoreum] / Chaos in Premonition
26:35 / Eguana & Qeight / Forest Song V / Forest Song
42:00 / Bart Hawkins / Garden of Grace / Vision of Eden
48:50 / Hollan Holmes / Tales from the Abyss / Emerald Waters
55:15 / Hibernation / A Consequence of Culture (Ambient Version) / Ambient Re:Works 01

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Journeyscapes DJ Set: Time Dilation



An ambient/electronic mix of traveling space music.

TIME / ARTIST / TRACK / ALBUM-EP-SINGLE
00:18 / Eagle / Bright Future / Hypervelocity Star
05:55 / Jim Ottaway / Shores of Eternity / Somewhere-In-Between
12:45 / Hollan Holmes / The River / Emerald Waters
18:15 / Meg Bowles / Ancient Paths / Pilgrimage
24:20 / Divine Matrix / Gliding on Thermals / Journeys
29:24 / Zero Cult / Contemplation / Contemplation
34:35 / Path of Silence / The Keepers of Ways / Ancestral Light
41:37 / Starterra / Frequency Source / Transformation Cycles
51:10 / Colin Rayment / Composure in a Dreamlike State / Equilibrium

Monday, October 24, 2022

Journeyscapes DJ Set: Haunted Worlds 8



An otherworldly chillscape for all hallows’ eve.

TIME / ARTIST / TRACK / ALBUM-EP-SINGLE
00:25 / ELEON / Seraphim Travelers / Magnetica
05:23 / Eguana / Parallel Universe / Devastated
12:07 / Robert Fox / The Devil’s Puzzle (2022 Remastered) / Timeless Vol. 2
17:50 / Blue Stone / Envy / Worlds Apart
22:48 / Eagle / Not Afraid of the Dark / Hypervelocity Star
28:20 / Love Potion / Seven Hexes / XXX
31:31 / Steve Orchard / Stay Close to the Candle / Macabre
36:00 / Germind / Prophecy in a Dream / Mind Eclipse
41:18 / Enigma / Knocking on Forbidden Doors / MCMXC a.D.
45:30 / Hollan Holmes / Leviathan / Emerald Waters
52:50 / GMO & Dense / Ghost Herbs / Ghost Herbs

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Journeyscapes DJ Set: Destination Paradise 6



A sensual mix of summer night chill for exotic getaways.

TIME / ARTIST / TRACK / ALBUM-EP-SINGLE
00:20 / Zero Cult / Idle Moment / Idle Moment
06:11 / Sine / Air / Einklang
10:46 / Frank Borell / Epic Dreams / The Mystic Time of Chill
15:46 / Eguana & Qeight / My Remedy / My Remedy
21:42 / Sean Hayman / Bad Days / Forget Time & Space
26:51 / Frank Borell / Equator / Best of Del Mar, Vol. 11
31:33 / Anna B May / Essence / Essence
34:56 / Pascal Dubois / Looking for Someone / Best of Del Mar, Vol. 11
38:54 / Eguana & Qeight / Just Breathe / Recreation
44:54 / Michael Whalen / Against the Sky / Imaginary Trains
48:54 / Glint / Lazy Tuesday / Five
52:38 / Germind / Star Voice / Mind Eclipse

Friday, August 19, 2022

Journeyscapes DJ Set: Shamanic Visions 6



A transcendent voyage into tribal-ambient soundworlds.

TIME / ARTIST / TRACK / ALBUM-EP-SINGLE
00:20 / Frore & Shane Morris / Woven / Horizon
12:54 / Steve Roach / Mojave / The Lost Pieces
18:35 / Byron Metcalf & Dashmesh / Deep Time 1 / Heart of the Deep Time
25:15 / Eguana / Shaman Calls the Dragon / Dragon Songs
32:33 / Brannan Lane & Vidna Obmana / Points of Light 1 / Deep Unknown
40:25 / Vidna Obmana / Doekoen / Subterranean Collective
49:12 / Byron Metcalf / Calling Huachuma’s Medicine Spirit / The Precipice of Choice

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Journeyscapes DJ Set: Imaginary Boundaries 2



A cinematic chillscape of surreal ambient electronica.

TIME / ARTIST / TRACK / ALBUM-EP-SINGLE
00:20 / Sine / Caught in Time / Einklang
04:41 / Michael Whalen / Imaginary Trains / Imaginary Trains
08:42 / Divine Matrix / Blue Origin / Journeys
13:55 / Cosmic Cadence / Coriolis Effect / Eclipse
21:11 / Keith Richie / There Are Other Worlds Than These / Epica
24:48 / Robert Fox / The Serpent’s Tail / Timeless Vol. 2 (Best of 2005-2022)
30:10 / Delerium / Metaphor / Semantic Spaces
37:45 / Santiago Trigueros / Daydreamer / Daydreamer
42:49 / ELEON / Dive / Hidden in Time
48:26 / David Helpling / Slipping (featuring Miriam Stockley) / IN

Wednesday, July 20, 2022