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Hello, it's another F1 weekend and once again Hamilton was in luck, like last week he didnt make it to a finish line but hey he gets to start tomorrow, had his troubles beset him on the day of the race it would have been..zero point, very lucky man mr Hamilton. Not that his fans can see it that way. They scream conspiracy and accuse Mercedes of sabotaging their own driver because he's a coloured brit, obviously the Germans prefer one of their own master race to win and after 4 years of herr Vettel its time for Rosberg in that German supercar by Mercedes..Really, much has been said about the sportsmanship behaviour of the Brits but it's socalled fans seem to lack any sense...

It is not hard to tell that Ukrainian-American composer Gregory Kyryluk absorbed a lot of old-school German spacemusic in his formative years. We can be thankful he did because, along with fellow Americans like Jonn Serrie and the group Spacecraft, he's grown into one of the world's most sensitive practitioners of ambient spacemusic, whether new-school or old. His one-man project Alpha Wave Movement has taken the classic Berlin sound across the Atlantic and into the 21st century without succumbing to either brazen recycling or moving it too far from its sonic roots. . .....N'Joy

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Alpha Wave Movement is the project of Gregory Kyryluk. Alpha Wave Movement began in 1990 when Kyryluk released a track called "Blink of an Eye" for a small AM-radio talk show in Jacksonville, FL. "Blink of an Eye" was rhythmic and melodic, but quite obscure. It was, however, this release that began Alpha Wave Movement and started a string of releases. Between these initial forays into electronic music, Alpha Wave Movement was Gregory Kyryluk's preferred mode of electronic music experimentation. 1994 yielded Alpha Wave Movement's first compilation contribution and first commercial release with Silent Records' From Here to Tranquility, Vol. 4 compilation. Between this release and Alpha Wave Movement's first full-length release, Gregory Kyryluk experimented more and more with his sound, trying to achieve a bridge between American electronic music and the Berlin-school style of electronic music, along the lines of Tangerine Dream, Ashra, and the always notable Klaus Schulze. In 1995, he came the closest that he had come to achieving this sort of "über musik" that would be his own, yet reminiscent of the electronic music that he had come to love and enjoy; this release was Transcendence on Gregory Kyryluk's own Harmonic Resonance Recordings label. As mentioned, this CD was a definite step toward the sound environments that Gregory Kyryluk enjoyed dwelling in, and his sonic experimentation continued further.

Gregory Kyryluk and his Alpha Wave Movement project began to focus more on the cosmic, spacious, and reflective aspects of his musical persona. It was this direction, whether he knew it or not at the time, that would certainly elevate his work to more and more audiences. Around this time, Gregory Kyryluk began listening to explorations into classic Arabic music both popular and traditional, as well as hybrid ethno-Indian music like that of Sheila Chandra and Michael Brook's projects with vocalist Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. This exotic music left an indelible impression on Gregory Kyryluk and he felt the urge to incorporate the rhythmic pulse and atmosphere of this music into his own electronic inspirations. Following the successful debut of Alpha Wave Movement's Transcendence, several other recordings in the same vein were released over the course of the next half decade; including 1996's The Edge of Infinity on the Groove Unlimited label, as well as 1998's Concept of Motion and 2000's Drifted Into Deeper Lands, both of which were also featured on the Groove Unlimited label. 2001 saw Gregory Kyryluk and Alpha Wave Movement doing a very successful and well-received collaboration with Jim Cole of Spectral Voices fame by the name of Bislama. This work truly brings to life some Gregory Kyryluk's interests in Arabic and Far Eastern ethnic music, only it's brought to life by a wide and panoramic stereo field that seems to suck the listener in. Alpha Wave Movement and Gregory Kyryluk continue to go strong.

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Smooth waves of synthetic sound and soft pulses of rhythms call to you in a journey for the mind and body. Influenced by Brian Eno, Steve Roach and 1970's electronic music pioneers. Electronic music accessable to everyone with an open mind!
transcendence is for diehard ambient fans. there are parts,such as "artifacts and prophecies" that are really quite haunting. the last track "veil of the twilight moon" is standard synth washes. some of the tracks, although well performed and well written, just do not have a "pleasing" sound. another person might feel differently. what i do is program past the cuts i dont like, which makes for a really cool 25 minutes. try "open canvas"- "nomadic impreessions" for kyryluks'[the artist]more polished work.
Transcendence is a good starting point of Gregory Kyryluk's career as an Ambient artist. You hear throughout the album that budgetary reasons prevented him from using the megalomaniac wealth of synthesizers that were utilized by such likeminded acts as The Orb or Robert Rich & Steve Roach. The album is all in all spacey, rather cold and simply blue, to say it with the vocabulary of synesthesia. The clear winner of this album is the warm and unexpectedly bright outro Veil Of The Twilight Moon, while the opener The Passage Of Moments moves successfully into Far Eastern territory and maintains a cleaning aura of contentment and concentration; it is also hiding the limited resources with which the album was created. Even though Transcendence sounds definitely dated, the compositions themselves stand the test of time if you are willed to forgive them their lack of hightech gadgetry and the bold inclusion of New Age flavors. The majority of the tracks doesn't present any field recordings, and yet the album sounds cozy due to the analogue synths in all of its tracks.

 Alpha Wave Movement -  Transcendense (flac 234mb)

01 The Passage Of Moments 6:40
02 Transcendences 8:57
03 Melting Boundaries 2:51
04 Terra Nocturna (Eros) 6:50
05 Artifacts & Prophecies 7:12
06 Gateway 4:37
07 Veil Of The Twilight Moon 10:54

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Alpha Wave Movement's The Edge of Infinity is a wonderfully crafted excursion into the more German side of ambient/space music, a la Tangerine Dream, Ashra, and Klaus Schulze. With The Edge of Infinity Alpha Wave Movement has created a very warm electronic recording. There's nothing cold and clinical about this recording, as there sometimes is with music coming from the German school of electronic music. Instead, Gregory Kyryluk, the gifted composer behind Alpha Wave Movement has created a recording that has the almost organic synthesized feel of a Steve Roach recording while at the same time maintaining an almost down-tempo feel comparable to Grand Tourism or the Chilled Euphoria series of recordings on the U.K.-based Tel-Star label. Fans of Alpha Wave Movement will definitely enjoy this recording, as The Edge of Infinity is fairly representative of the Alpha Wave Movement catalog.

Alpha Wave Movement - The Edge Of Infinity  (flac 317mb)

01 Monolith 4:29
02 The Edge Of Infinity 6:18
03 Travel Into The Nexus 5:43
04 Binary Code 51 6:42
05 Reflective Synapse 6:31
06 Vistas Of Magnificence 6:40
07 Dusk Descending 6:12
08 Distant Visitation 5:25
09 Purge 6:01

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The music of "Drifted Into Deeper Lands" was inspired by Gregory’s dreams and journeys into the Great Southwestern deserts of Arizona and New Mexico. It contains more extended tracks compared to his previous work, dwelling in a slightly Steve Roach-like ambient style. It is free form soundscape music with occasional use of percussion, creating a beautiful tranquil, introspective feel which shines through all pieces. Ambient guitarist Jeff Pearce joins Gregory on two tracks of the album.

There are only six tracks on Drifted Into Deeper Lands and each is a wonderful and varied example of what ambient music is all about. The lengthy opener and title track is truly the showcase piece here, and progresses naturally from a spacey soundscape to a gently pulsing rhythm that is both exciting and relaxing at the same time. It is this sort of duality that makes this album so interesting to listen to. Guitarist Jeff Pearce makes an appearance on "Awakening the Sand Spirits" and "Another Time... Another Place", and his special flavor of playing is a great contrast to Kyryluk's sonic backgrounds. "Another Time... Another Place" strikes me as almost tribal in its presentation, and the percussion (assumed to be electronic) found here does much to enhance that imagery." Suspended in the Hanging Gardens" closes the album, and the title of his track should be enough to tell you what to expect. This is a slow and drifting piece of ambient that capitalizes on its subtlety and grace to bring an appropriate ending to an album of this caliber and style. This desert immersion is created with quite an original range of sounds which I think no ambient fan should miss.

Alpha Wave Movement - Drifted Into Deeper Lands (flac  250mb)

01 Drifted Into Deeper Lands 14:11
02 Silent Promise 9:38
03 Awakening The Sand Spirits  (Ambient Guitar, Jeff Pearce) 8:33
04 That Which Remains 8:10
05 Another Time... Another Place  (Ambient Guitar, Jeff Pearce) 8:38
06 Suspended In The Hanging Gardens 7:03

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