Sequences Magazine

We are pleased to introduce for the first time in this edition ‘Almost Random’ on the Cyclical label. The musicians' compositions blend light and dark ambient sounds, incorporating atmospheric elements and subtle touches of symphonic scoring. Based in Scotland, Portland Vows delivers an immersive auditory experience characterized by minimalistic sparkling undertones and light female voices. Orca Attack! is Elizabeth Joan Kelly and David Rodriguez, a duo from New Orleans blending swamp rock, space opera and folk music, exemplifying certainly experimental sounds.

It was sad to hear that musician Loren Nerell passed away in July 2026 at the age of 65. He dedicated many decades to blending ambient electronic music with gamelan, leaving behind a rich legacy. As a tribute, we have selected two tracks from his 2016 release ‘The Venerable Dark Cloud,’ on the U.S. label Projekt.

Sequences Playlist No 292

02.40 Lisa Bella Donna ‘Antarctic’ (album Mindframes) https://lisabelladonna.bandcamp.com/album/mindframes
06.39 Silver Galaxy ’Soliton’ (album Soliton) https://silvergalaxy-official.bandcamp.com/album/silver-galaxy-soliton***
16.50 Jim Ottaway ‘Dreams And Visions (Treasures Of Light) https://jimottaway.bandcamp.com
22.58 Jim Ottaway ’Strange Paradox’
28.12 Jim Ottaway ’Tomorrow Never Comes’
34.20 Kitaro ‘Shimpi Naru Suna No Mai’ (Magical Sand Dance)’ (album In Person) https://www.discogs.com/release/500495-Kitaro-In-Person-Digital
42.37 deepspace ‘Atlas Minor-Juno, Queen Of The Clouds’ (album The Atlas Sector) www.projekt.com
46.33 deepspace ‘Atlas Prime - THE VIEW OF Atlas Prime’
52.38 deepspace ‘The Atlas Sector - t h e l o n e l i e s t p a t h ‘
57.55 Andy Pickford ‘Colony’ (album Outland) https://andypickford1.bandcamp.com/album/outland
01.04.49 Andy Pickford ’52 Blue’
01.12.04 theAdelaidean ‘Dreaming Starlight’ (album Airward) www.projekt.com
01.17.25 Portland Vows ‘Here Is Where It Starts’ (album Cuckoo) Portland Vows
01.20.06 Portland Vows ‘This Was The Boy’
01.23.57 Christian Fiesel ‘On A Second Thought’ (album On A Second Thought) *** https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/on-a-second-thought-cyd-0162
01.34.37 Almost Random ‘It Reach Everything’ (album Fragments From The Waning World) https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-1
01.43.21 Mathias Grassow & Stephen Parsick ‘Gratitude-and-Humility part 1’(album Gratitude-and-Humility) *** https://stephenparsick.bandcamp.com
01.53.04 Steve Roach ‘The Current Above’ (album The Current Above-Immersion Seven) *** www.projekt.com
02.04.02 Peter Phippen & Eric “The” Taylor ’Century Folding pt 1’ (album Two By Twilight) www.projekt.com
02.14.52 Tim Stebbing ‘Numincator’ (album Nixieland) https://tim-stebbing.bandcamp.com/album/nixieland
02.23.03 Billy Denk 'Abbey Of Light' (album Consider The Ravens) https://wayfarermusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/consider-the-ravens
02.28.11 Loren Nerell ‘Ablution’ (album The Venerable Dark Cloud) www.projekt.com
02.30.22 Loren Nerell ‘Dark Horizon’
02.36.15 Orca Attack!’ Grass In The Moonlight’ (single) https://mortalitytables.bandcamp.com/album/grass-in-the-moonlight
02.39.36 Thy Veils ‘One Endless Trail of Sunsets’ (single) https://thyveils.bandcamp.com/track/one-endless-trail-of-sunsets-y30
02.46.14 Ross Christopher ‘The Day the Rapture Never Happened’ (EP Echoes Of Our Ancestors) https://rosschristopher.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-of-our-ancestors
02.50.08 Formless Cascade ‘River Of Experience’ (EP Along The Way) https://formlesscascade.bandcamp.com/album/along-the-way
02.52.25 Endless Lake ‘Sereno’ (EP Sereno) https://valleyviewrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sereno
02.54.59 Jyrante ’Twilight Glow’ (EP Sleeping With The Stars) https://jyrante.bandcamp.com/album/sleeping-with-the-stars
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SEQUENCES PODCAST NO 291

We had aspired to incorporate more dynamic content into this project; however, that was not achieved. There is once again a predominance of new downtempo, ambient, and dark ambient tracks.

Almost four years after his last album with “Epsilon”, we begin with 4th Eden’s “System In Motion”.

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Playlist No 291

02.46 4th Eden ‘Continuum’ (album Systems In Motion) https://4th-eden.bandcamp.com/album/systems-in-motion
11.55 4th Eden ‘Polarphase’
20.11 MICADO & Music Friends ‘(C)alling for (H)ealth (feat. Ruud van der Bliek)’ (album MICADO iRReversible Revelatios 4) https://micado.bandcamp.com/album/irreversible-revelations-4
28.48 MICADO & Music Friends ‘(L)ight and (D)ark (feat. Skoulaman)
36.35 Adam Filip ‘Jarylo’ (album The Returning Circle) https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/the-returning-circle-cyd-0161
46.02 Adam Filip ’Summer Flame’
48.39 Byron Metcalf & Erik Wollo ‘Perpetual Flow’ (EP Spanned Times) https://byronmetcalf.bandcamp.com/album/spanned-times-ep
55.30 m00n ‘Where Did The Sun Go’ (album Postcard From The End) https://m00m.bandcamp.com/album/postcard-from-the-end
01.00.29 m00n ‘Frozen Time’
01.06.18 Synestem ‘Main Memorial’ (album From Spaceports 2) http://synestem.de
01.13.19 Fatima AI Qadiri ’Sheba’ (album Medieval Femme) https://fatimaalqadiri.bandcamp.com/album/medieval-femme
01.16.27 Fatima AI Qadiri ‘Medieval Femme’
01.19.32 Minibus Pimps ’Superbolt’ (album Cloud To Ground) https://minibuspimps.bandcamp.com/album/cloud-to-ground
01.23.37 Onasander & RNGMNN ‘The Illumination Behind the Veils’ (album Illumination) https://winter-light.bandcamp.com/album/illumination-phases
01.32.45 Phobos ‘Perception’ (DL album A Perceived View) *** https://phobos.bandcamp.com/album/a-perceived-view
01.43.32 Sergiu Salagean ‘Caught Between Hades And Eden’ (album Whispered Dreams) https://sergiusalagean.bandcamp.com/album/whispered-dreams
01.50.00 Sergiu Salagean ‘The Voices In Your Head’
01.53.15 CIRC ‘Belladoona’ (EP Rite) https://circ.bandcamp.com/album/rite
01.56.57 Art Of Infinity ’Not Of This World’ (album Echoes In Pink) www.bscmusic.com
01.59.06 Deep Imagination ‘Keep Searching’ (album Echoes In Pink)
02.04.55 Bernd Scholl ‘Fields Of Eternity’ (album Echoes In Pink)
02.09.51 Bohdan Stupak ‘Whispers’ (album A Place In Memories) www.projekt.com
02.17.15 Halftribe ‘Disappear In Silent Ways’ (album Disappear In Silent Ways) https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/disappear-in-silent-ways
02.21.41 Halftribe ‘Tylo Alba’
02.24.16 Jolanda Moletta & Karen Vogt ‘The Scent Of A Storm On The Wind’ (album Sea-Swallowed Wands) https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/sea-swallowed-wands
02.26.13 Jolanda Moletta & Karen Vogt ‘The Portal’
02.27.40 JJRD ‘Grønland’ (album Occidental Tribes) https://wayfarermusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/occidental-tribes
02.38.18 RL Huber ‘Clock Watcher’ (EP The Backwards Sun) https://rlhuber.bandcamp.com/album/the-backwards-su
02.40.07 Dreamscapist ‘The Choice Now Chosen’ (album Eremitism) https://wayfarermusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/eremitism
02.52.32 Clone Rainbow ‘Passing’ (EP Passing Through) https://clonerainbow.bandcamp.com
02.55.09 Harpa Skies ‘Between Stages, Between Stars’ (EP Orbital Skies) https://harpaskies.bandcamp.com/album/orbital-glow
02.58.09 Astro Pilot ‘Above The Quiet Slopes’ (EP Winds Over Eagle Mountain) https://eitvrecords.bandcamp.com/album/winds-over-eagle-mountains
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I was pleasantly surprised by the playlist on SoundCloud from our recent two-part edition! The ambient downtempo tracks clearly resonated with listeners, with twice the stats of the more uptempo tunes. Looking at past one-off specials, the ambient side still led the way-Erik Wollo reached 1300 plays, and surprisingly, David Parsons topped the charts with over 2000 listeners. While we can’t get detailed stats from most of the sites where our podcasts are featured, we’re happy to see that many of our fans are now discovering us on iTunes, according to a website that monitors certain music sites. Once again, in this latest podcast, ambient and downtempo tracks make up about half the playlist. Enjoy the show.

Mick (The ED)

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Playlist No 290

2.00 Synth Replicants ’To My Daughter’ (album Storm After The Silence) https://synthreplicants.bandcamp.com/album/storm-after-the-silence-album
7.35 Synth Replicants ‘Alive Beneath A Breaking Sky’
13.55 Thaneco ’So Far Away From Earth’ (album Tau Zero) https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/tau-zero-cyd-0160
20.57 Thaneco ‘Billion Year Cycles Are Moments’
26.36 Michael Brook ‘Ultramarine’ (album Colbalt Blue) https://michaelbrook.bandcamp.com/album/cobalt-blue
30.50 Parallel Worlds ‘Phase’ (album Explorer) https://neoouija.bandcamp.com/album/explorer
35.45 Parallel Worlds ’Still Unknown’
40.02 Maris Anguis ‘Prologue-Ashes of The Ninth Moons’ (album Oblivion Code) https://marisanguis.bandcamp.com/album/oblivion-code
44.08 Maris Anguis ‘Citadel Of Silent Moon’
47.46 Maris Anguis ‘The Hunter Beyond The Dust’
49.00 Maris Anguis ‘Black Psalms of the Empire’
52.32 Arushi Jain ‘Under The Lilac Sky’ (album Under The Lilac Sky) *** https://arushijain.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-lilac-sk
01.03.23 Rodrigo Passannanti ‘Never Was’ (album Timeless Conceptions) https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/timeless-conceptions-cyd-0159
01.09.40 Rodrigo Passannanti ‘Mineral Silence’
01.15.52 Ivan Black ‘Ready For Spring’ (album Black 7) https://ivanblack.bandcamp.com/album/black-7
01.23.53 Ivan Black ‘Remembering’ (album Black 8)
01.32.08 Michael Stearns & Robert Rich ‘Opening Sky’ (album Reunion Of Breath And Waves) https://robertrich.bandcamp.com/album/reunion-of-breath-and-waves
01.37.28 Michael Stearns & Robert Rich ‘Inclusions’
01.45.13 Alias Zone Feat: Robert Rich ‘Afterlife’ (The Three Passages) https://aliaszone.bandcamp.com/album/passage
01.58.09 Michael Brook ‘Ten’ (album Colbalt Blue)
02.01.25 Bålsam ‘River Goddess’ (album Soñador) https://le-mont-analogue.bandcamp.com/album/so-ador
02.05.21 Bålsam ‘Soñador’
02.09.10 Dirk Serries & Asmus Titchens ’Nebel, Wolken’ (Album Die Regeninsel) https://dirkserries.bandcamp.com/album/die-regeninsel
02.16.01 Black Mellotrons ‘Black Hole Son’ (album TripMuziek) *** https://doombientmusic.bandcamp.com/album/tripmuziek
02.27.09 Diogene, Ancient Astronaut ‘Possible Realities’ (EP Another World is Lost) https://ambient-soundscapes.bandcamp.com/album/another-world-is-lost
02.30.47 Stratosphere ’Sphere I.II’ (album Sphere I) www.projekt.com
02.42.33 Lab’s Cloud ‘Embraced By Sines’ (album Behind The Pane) https://le-mont-analogue.bandcamp.com/album/behind-the-pane
02.49.03 Quelche ‘Deep Suspire’ (EP Whispers In The Quiet) https://quelche.bandcamp.com/album/whispers-in-the-quiet
02.51.50 Christian Wittman ’Harmonic Clinamen/Suspended Atoms Radio Edit’ (album Suspension) *** https://christianwittman.bandcamp.com/album/suspension-2

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Finally, we are pleased to present our June podcasts following my family commitments. There has undoubtedly been a backlog of new music to review. With several weeks to catch up, we are now releasing a double edition that encompasses a diverse range of electronic music genres. Part 2 is our customary three-hour edition, split into two sections: the first is more relaxed, and the second part introduces significantly darker soundscapes.

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Playlist No 289 part 2

00.00 David Helpling & Scott Reich ’Source Of The Longest River’ (album Through The Thought Horizon) https://davidhelpling.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-thought-horizon
06.23 David Helpling & Scott Reich ‘The Simplest Of Miracles’
13.32 Anya Pelevina ‘Flow’ https://soundcloud.com/ann-pelevina
16.03 Anya Pelevina ‘Learn To Tame Your Triggers 396HZ’
23.54 V E E N ‘Cape Alava’ (EP Meander) https://v-e-n-n.bandcamp.com/album/meander-2
26.23 Thomas Lemmer ‘A Sky Of Light, A Symphony Of Unfolding’ (album Dreamscapes II) https://sine-music.bandcamp.com
29.20 Thomas Lemmer ’Stars We Fade’
31.41 Thomas Lemmer ’The Sound Of Letting Go’
34.05 Echo Season ’Tachyon Trace’ (album Residual Signals) https://synphaera.bandcamp.com/album/residual-signals
44..40 Domy Castellano ’Nubiloso’ (EP II Fiume) Echoes In the Valley https://domycastellano.bandcamp.com/album/il-fiume
47.21 Sundad ‘Vader’ (album Way Station One) https://sundad.com
51.02 Sundad ‘Grandfather Clock’
53.09 anthéne ‘Thorns’ (album Air Signs) https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/air-signs
59.30 Jonn Serrie ‘Aftervisions’ (Compilation: The Deep Sleep in Deep Space Collection) https://link.to/deepsleepindeepspace
01.05.00 Jonn Serrie ‘Straight on Til Morn’
01.11.49 Dear Gravity, Runaway Horses ‘Beholding’ (EP Terrene) https://deargravitymusic.bandcamp.com/album/terrene
01.14.10 Dear Gravity, Runaway Horses ‘Terrene’
01.16.53 Man From Mars ‘Memories Of Sadness’ (EP Kaguya) https://manfrommars5.bandcamp.com
01.20.31 Ancient Astronauts ‘Unfolding Landscapes’ (EP Softening) https://ancientastronaut.bandcamp.com/album/softening
01.24 03 The Silent Tide ‘Down By The Lighthouse’ (album Drift & Distance)
01.27.33 YODOKIII ‘Nidarosdomen’ (Single Track Live At Olavsfest Trondheim, Norway 2023)*** https://yodokiii.bandcamp.com/album/nidarosdomen
01.39.05 The Interstellar Cementmixers ’Timedust’ (album Dislodged Resonance) *** https://interstellarcementmixers.bandcamp.com/album/dislodged-resonance
01.48.20 Gydja ‘Heidthornir’ (album Níu kom ek heima fyr Niflhel neðan) https://winter-light.bandcamp.com/album/n-u-kom-ek-heima-fyr-niflhel-ne-an
01.53.12 Gydja ’Skatynir’
01.59.17 Santi Costanzo ‘Movimento I’ (album CICLICA - Autocracy of Deception, Volume II) https://santicostanzo.bandcamp.com/album/ciclica-autocracy-of-deception-volume-ii
02.01.20 Santi Costanzo ‘Movimento VIII’
02.05.24 Paul Haslinger & Christian Wittman ‘Fictious’ (album Borges)
02.11.18 Paul Haslinger & Christian Wittman ‘Jamais n’abolira’ (album Mallarme)
02.17.03 Tony Gerber ‘Ice Drone A’ (album Ice Drones) *** https://tonygerber.bandcamp.com/album/ice-drones
02.27.26 Sam Rosenthal ’Solar Silent Sound’ (album The Width Of Shadows) www.projekt.com
02.32.29 Conrad Schnitzler ’Upwards’ 12-03-07/02-03-23/12-03-07 (album Upwards) https://fonodroom.limitedrun.com/products/875486-conrad-schnitzler-upwards-cd
02.42.50 Conrad Schnitzler ‘Windmills ’15-02.00/16-02-69/17-01-01/02-04/00-48/01-11’(album Windmills) https://fonodroom.limitedrun.com/products/875485-conrad-schnitzler-windmills-cd
02.48.31 Ron Berry ‘Lines Of Force’ (album Euler) *** http://www.ron-berry.co.uk
02.54.21 Uhushuhu feat: Prorok ‘Arter A Beetle’ (album To Those Lost In The Woods) https://owltotem.bandcamp.com/album/to-those-lost-in-the-woods

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Finally, we are pleased to present our June podcasts following my family commitments. There has undoubtedly been a backlog of new music to review. With several weeks to catch up, we are now releasing a double edition that encompasses a diverse range of electronic music genres, here is part 1

Download Bios: https://www.sequencesmagazine.com/podcasts/

Playlist Mid/Utempo No 289 part 1

01.56 Bioscope (Rothery & Quaeschning) ‘Gentō’ (album Gentō) https://www.bioscope.music
09.12 Harald Grosskopf ‘Kalter Lärm’ (album Glitches Brew) https://haraldgrosskopf.bandcamp.com/album/glitches-brew
13.52 Bluetech ‘Accretion Disk Etude/Nebulous Cosmid/Redshift Reticulum’ (album Petite Constellations) https://bluetech.bandcamp.com/album/petite-constellations
24.04 Achillea ‘The Cave Of Ishtar/‘Birth Of A Star’ (album The Lost Scripture) www.bscmusic.com
30.09 Krzysztof Kurkowski ‘Algorithmus Primus/‘Scintillatio’ (album Motus Pulsans) https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/motus-pulsans-cyd-0155
42.04 Mac Of BIOnight ‘The Past Within’ (album Radience Vol 4) https://macofbionight.bandcamp.com/album/radiance-unit-vol-04-classic-em-78
52.04 Maggi Payne ‘Flights Of Fancy’ (album Ahh-Ahh) https://aguirrerecords.bandcamp.com/album/ahh-ahh
55.42 Polytron ‘Pilutron (intro)/Jump To Hyperspace (outro)’ (album New Era) https://soundcloud.com/polytronwave
01.05.48 Steve Roach ’Spirals Of Yearning/‘Bliss Current’ (album LA ROSA -Live In Tucson 2025) www.projekt.com
01.21.43 Brendan Pollard ‘Vessel Original’ (album Lost Vol 1)*** https://brendanpollard.bandcamp.com/album/lost-volume-1
01.27.43 Brendan Pollard ‘Cruncher’ (album Lost Vol 2) *** https://brendanpollard.bandcamp.com/album/lost-volume
01.35.52 Beyond Our Galaxy ’Solarius/Cosmology’ (album Circular Logic) https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/circular-logic-cyd-0011
01.43.04 Beyond Our Galaxy ‘Telematic/’Sphere’ (album Surface Analysis) https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/surface-analysis-cyd-0059
01.51.56 Carolyn Fok “The Moment That Made The Universe’ (album Chrysalis) https://carolynfok.bandcamp.com/album/chrysalis
01.59.03 Carloyn Fok ‘Telepathic Dreamland/‘Clock Hands The Arrival’
02.08.20 Cells Interlinked ‘Cold Spring Day’ (album Cold Spring Notes) https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/cold-spring-notes-cyd-0158
02.16.02 Michael Whalen ’Standing Near Infinity/Driftwood’ (album Standing Near Infinity) https://www.prostudiomasters.com/album/page/471547
02.29.40 Divine Matrix ’Sunrise Over Winslow Crater/ ‘Arizona Skies’ (album Arizona Skies) www.admusicshop.com
02.40.17 Leila Adul-Rauf ‘Descent Into Kur’ (album Andros Insidium) https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/album/andros-insidium
02.44.54 Lycia ‘Frozen/ ‘Colder’ (album Cold Remastered) www.projeckt.com
02.56.00 Dashmesh & Erik Wøllo feat: Byron Metcalf ‘Cave Of Light & Shadow’ (album Cave Of Light & Shadow) https://wayfarermusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/cave-of-light-and-shadow
03.01.06 DTime ‘Midnight Dawn/Entropy Bloom’ (album Nightwoven) https://dtime.bandcamp.com/album/nightwoven
03.12.23 Lines Of Silence ‘Stranger Shore’ (album The Long Way Home) https://linesofsilenceband.bandcamp.com/album/the-long-way-home
03.16.40 s475e ‘Floating In Space/’Something Comes Into Being’ (album 12.21) https://s475e.bandcamp.com/yum
03.27.14 Tim Stebbing ‘Primeval Giants/‘Magentic Rocks’ (album Voyage of The Beagle) https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/voyage-of-the-beagle-cyd-0156
03.35.25 Bernd Scholl ’Spring Turns To Summer (album The Call Of Spring) www.bscmusic.com
03.44.00 Tony Sieber ‘Closer To Heaven/The Breath of Eternity/Where Time Loses Its Shape’ (In Loving Memory)’ (album Tides Of Stillness) http://www.sine-music.com
03.51.33 Marcator ‘Terra Incognita/‘Susperia’ (album Terra Incognita) www.bscmusic.com
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