Tuesday, May 29, 2007

VA - Western Spaces (1987)




Western Spaces is a collaboration with two other well-regarded synthesists Kevin Braheny and Richard Burmer and is of a similarly high standard. Inspired by the desert wilderness of America’s south-west, these superb electro-acoustic nature paintings are as compelling and genuinely beautiful examples of environmental music as you’ll hear anywhere.

As the first artist to appear on iconic Californian label Hearts Of Space, Kevin Braheny’s cosmic impressionism became a defining influence on what many of the label’s early releases would generally sound like. The most distinguishing feature of Braheny's best music is the Steiner EWI, a remarkable electronic woodwind instrument which in his gifted hands sounds as expressive and emotionally resonant as anything heard from its acoustic cousins.


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