PGM 389: SWEET MYSTIQUE 3

A luscious mix of downtempo chill & dreamy lounge.

TIME / ARTIST / TRACK / ALBUM-EP-SINGLE
00:25 / Zero Cult / City Voices (2024 Remastered) / Inversion
08:30 / Lukas Midub (feat. Veronika Boulter & Beta Solaris / Keep Walking / Shiny Lights
13:20 / Qeight / If You Need Me Now / If You Need Me Now
18:42 / Magnetik / Deeper Motion / Deeper Motion
25:20 / Balthvs / Sun Coloured Eyes / Harvest
29:13 / Eric Hilton with The Infinite Daisy Chains / Little Odessa / Little Odessa
32:16 / deepspace / Rainy メガシティ 七 Precinct / Neon Blue Utopia
37:00 / Manika Kaur / Siddhartha / Devocean
41:41 / In’R’Voice / Moonlight Fields (Jam Session Remix) / Elusive Meaning
50:22 / Unhide, Elvya / Aso Mata / Aso Mata
54:29 / Villa Dayze feat. Peranya Visitchantaragoon / Phangan Moonrise / Thai Island Life

Album Review: Evensong by Kevin Keller

Review by Candice Michelle

New York-based composer Kevin Keller continues to dazzle and amaze with his ever-evolving yet uniquely signature style of award-winning music that combines ambient and electronica with cinematic and classical styles. Comprised of eight enchantingly beautiful pieces all named (and numbered 1-8) after the album’s title, Evensong, Keller’s latest masterpiece is no exception in his nearly three-decade recording career. What makes Evensong especially remarkable among this prolific artist’s repertoire is Keller’s thematic inspiration for this album – the transcendent and timeless music of Hildegard of Bingen. Born circa 1908, Bingen was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, herbalist, mystic, and philosopher whose divine musical works and writings have inspired countless artists, composers and creative thinkers across centuries.

On Evensong, Keller enlists four soprano singers (Danya Katok, Elisa Singer Strom, Katherine Wessinger, and Wendy Baker) who provide mesmerizing chants composed by Bingen on tracks 1, 3, 4, and 7 in addition to ethereal vocal textures throughout the album. Classical strings by Sarah Zun (violin), Angela Pickett (viola) and Laura Metcalf (cello) are also woven into Keller’s ambient neoclassical soundscapes, which seemingly transcend place and time with their flawless fusion of medieval and modern musical motifs. Illuminated by floating, shimmering and lightly pulsating electronic sequences that are variably accented by stringed instruments, bell tones, and encircling pipe organ figures throughout, the album’s haunting yet heavenly atmospheres evoke sacred and cosmic imagery, like that of a vaulted cathedral ceiling opening to reveal the majestic milky way.

Joining the ranks among other top-notch Bingen-inspired ambient/neoclassical albums like Vision by Richard Souther and Lux Vivens by Jocelyn Montgomery & David Lynch, Kevin Keller’s Evensong is one of the most magnificent albums I’ve heard in recent years and an absolute must-have for fans of this genre!  

~Candice Michelle for Journeyscapes 

For more information please visit the artist's website. Evensong is also available at Bandcamp and more!

PGM 388: ATLANTIS CALLING 3

An ambient/electronic fantasy mix inspired by a lost civilization.

TIME / ARTIST / TRACK / ALBUM
00:20 / Kamarius / Fantastika / The Code
06:00 / Mark Dwane / Atlantean Magic / The Atlantis Factor
09:55 / Sylvain Carel / Detected / Atlantide
20:34 / Deborah Martin & Cheryl Gallagher / Palace / Tibet (20th Anniversary Remaster)
28:06 / Medwyn Goodall / Temple of Prophecy / Priestess: Return to Atlantis
35:35 / Forrest Fang / Vessels of a Minor Deity / Perihelion
44:42 / Bart Hawkins / River Boat to Atlantis / Entering the Axis Mundi
52:45 / Mark Dwane / Atlantean Apparitions / Atlantean Apparitions
55:14 / ELEON / Hidden Kingdom / Hidden Kingdom