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A BLUE OCEAN DREAM - The Sea (cd-r)

 
A PRODUCE - A Smooth Surface (cd-r)

 
A PRODUCE - Black Sands (cd-r)

 
A PRODUCE - Inscape and Landscape (cd)

 
A PRODUCE - Land of a Thousand Trances (cd-r)

 
A PRODUCE - Reflect like a Mirror, Respond like an Echo (cd)

 
A PRODUCE - Smile on the Void (cd)

 
A PRODUCE - White Sands (cd)

 
A PRODUCE & LOREN NERELL - Intangible (cd)

 
A PRODUCE & M. GRIFFIN - Altara (cd)

 
A PRODUCE & RUBEN GARCIA - Early Sessions (cd-r)

 
AAIRRIA - Urbanisation (cd)

 
ABANDONED TOYS - The Witch's Garden (cd)

 
ACHELOO - Ishtar (cd-r)

 
ACHELOO - Sirens (cd-r)

 
RUDY ADRIAN - Desert Realms (cd)

 
RUDY ADRIAN - Distant Stars (cd)

 
RUDY ADRIAN - Kinetic Flow (Sequencer Sketches Vol. 1) (cd)

 
RUDY ADRIAN - Moonwater (cd)

 
RUDY ADRIAN - Subantarctica (Atmospheric Works Vol.1) (cd-r)

 
RUDY ADRIAN - The Healing Lake (cd)

 
RUDY ADRIAN - Twilight (Atmospheric Works Vol. 2) (cd-r)

 
KEES AERTS - If One Door Closes (cd)

 
KEES AERTS - Slices of Time (cd)

 
AES DANA - Aftermath 2.0 Archives of Peace (Digital Download)

 
AES DANA - Leylines (cd)

 
AES DANA - Perimeters (cd)

 
AES DANA - Pollen (CD/Digital Download)

 
AETOPUS - Memories of the Elder (cd)

 
JOHAN AGEBJöRN - Mossebo (cd)

 
JOHAN AGEBJöRN - Music With Less Electricity (Digital Download)

 
JOHAN AGEBJöRN - The Mountain Lake (cd)

 
AIRSCULPTURE - Before the Moon (cd)

 
AIRSCULPTURE - Burn (cd-r/Digital Download)

 
AIRSCULPTURE - Fjord Transit (cd)

 
AIRSCULPTURE - Quark Soup (cd)

 
AIRSCULPTURE - TranceAtlantic (cd)

 
AIRWAVES - Ambient Tracks (cd)

 
AIRWAVES - Second Shift (cd)

 
AKIKAZE - The Age of Deception (cd-r)

 
ALEMIS - The Music of Alemis Vol. 1 (cd-r)

 
ALIEN NATURE - Anna (cd-r)

 
ALIO DIE - Deconsecrated and Pure (CD/Digital Download)

 
ALIO DIE & JACK OR JIVE - Mei-Jyu (cd)

 
ALIO DIE & MARTINA GALVAGNI - Eleusian Lullaby (cd)

 
ALIO DIE & PARALLEL WORLDS - Circo Divino (cd)

 
ALIO DIE & YANNICK DAUBY - Descendre cinq lacs au travers d'une voilé (CD-EP)

 
ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Beyond Silence (cd-r)

 
ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Cosmic Mandala (cd-r)

 
ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Cosmology (cd)

 
ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Drifted Into Deeper Lands (cd)

 
ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Eolian Reflections (cd-r/Digital Download)

 
ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Exiled Particles Vol. I Archive 1997-2005 (cd-r/Digital Download)

 
ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Myriad Stars (Digital Download)

 
ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Soniq Variants (cd-r)

 
ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Terra (dvd-r)

 
ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - The Mystic and the Machine (cd-r)

 
ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - The Regions Between (cd-r)

 
ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Transcendence (cd)

 
ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT - Yasumu (CD-r/Digital Download)

 
ALPHA WAVE MOVEMENT & JIM COLE - Bislama (cd-r)

 
ALQUIMIA & RüDIGER GLEISBERG - Garden of Dreams (cd)

 
ALTUS - Black Trees Among Amber Skies (Digital Download)

 
ALTUS - City of Ashes (Digital Download)

 
ALTUS - Coma Cluster (Digital Download)

 
ALTUS - Complex Silence 22 (Digital Download)

 
ALTUS - Ecotone (Digital Download)

 
ALTUS - Excursion Two (Digital Download)

 
ALTUS - Macro (Digital Download)

 
ALTUS - Rapid Eye Movements (Digital Download)

 
ALTUS - Sleep Theory Volume 1 (Digital Download)

 
ALTUS - Symmetry & Shadow (Singles Collection Vol. 2) (Digital Download)

 
ALTUS - The Grand Expanse (Digital Download)

 
ALTUS - The Sidereal Cycle 1 (Digital Download)

 
ALTUS - The Sidereal Cycle 2 (Digital Download)

 
ALTUS - The Sidereal Cycle 3 (Digital Download)

 
ALTUS - The Sidereal Cycle 4 (Digital Download)

 
ALTUS & TRX - Crossroads (Digital Download)

 
THE AMARANTH SIGNAL - Penumbra (cd-r)

 
AMBIENTIUM - Fractal Philosophy (cd-r)

 
AMETHYSTIUM - Aphelion (cd)

 
AMETHYSTIUM - Aurorae (Digital Download EP)

 
AMETHYSTIUM - Emblem (cd)

 
AMETHYSTIUM - Evermind (cd)

 
AMETHYSTIUM - Isabliss (cd)

 
AMETHYSTIUM - Odonata (cd)

 
THE AMNIS INITIATIVE - Distant Dreams (cd)

 
AMONGST MYSELVES - Ambient, Landscape and Space (cd-r/dvd-r)

 
AMONGST MYSELVES - Auburn Silhouette (cd)

 
AMONGST MYSELVES - Fragments (cd)

 
AMONGST MYSELVES - Sacred Black (cd)

 
ANANDA NIDRA - Blissfull Sleep (cd)

 
JACK ANDREWS - Electrokinesis (cd-r)

 
MIKE ANDREWS - Time & Science (cd)

 
ANDYMIAN - In the Garden of the Rainy King (cd)

 
ANOMALOUS DISTURBANCES - Archive Two (cd-r)

 
ANOMALOUS DISTURBANCES - HovR (cd-r)

 
ANOMALOUS DISTURBANCES - Inside (cd-r)

 
ANOMALOUS DISTURBANCES - The Spirit Molecule (cd-r)

 
VINCENT GABRIEL ANTONINI - Unforeseen (cd-r)

 
ANTRILON - Mind Erase (cd)

 
APERUS - Hinterland (Ep)

 
APERUS - Tumbleweed obfuscated by camera failure (cd-r)

 
APOLLONIUS - Birth of the Real Self (Digital Download)

 
APOLLONIUS & 33 TETRAGAMMON - Ascension (Digital Download)

 
APOLLONIUS & 33 TETRAGAMMON - Core (Digital Download)

 
AQUAVOICE - Cold (cd)

 
AQUAVOICE - Memories (cd)

 
ARC - Church (cd)

 
ARC - Fracture (cd)

 
ARC - Rise (cd-r)

 
ARCANE - A Tale of Unease (Digital Download)

 
ARCANE - Alterstill (cd)

 
ARCANE - The Shelter (cd-r)

 
ARCANE - Tomorrow’s Wasteland (cd-r)

 
ARCANUM - Arcanum (cd)

 
ARKHA NOUS - Tria (cd)

 
CHRIS ARMSTRONG - A.I. Awakens (cd)

 
ARROCATA - Desert Electric (cd-r)

 
ARROCATA - In the Distance (cd)

 
ARROCATA - The Painter (cd-r)

 
ARRONIZ - Contacto (cd)

 
ART OF INFINITY - Dimension Universe (cd)

 
ART OF INFINITY - Raumwerk (CD/Digital Download)

 
AS IF - Faraway Trees Standing Still (cd)

 
AS IF - In my Room (cd-r/Digital Download)

 
ASHERA - Ambient Selections (cd)

 
ASHERA - Cobalt 144 (cd)

 
ASHERA - Colour Glow (cd)

 
ASHERA - Enviro (cd)

 
ASHERA - We Gaia (cd)

 
ASHERA & BRANNAN LANE - Sextant (cd)

 
DWIGHT ASHLEY & TIM STORY - Standing + Falling (cd)

 
DWIGHT ASHLEY - Discrete Carbon (cd)

 
ASHRA - New Age of Earth (cd)

 
ASTROGATOR - Dreamlight (cd-r)

 
ASTROPILOT - Solar Walk (CD/Digital Download)

 
ASTROVOYAGER - Symphotronic Lunation (cd)

 
ASURA - 360 (cd)

 
ASURA - Life 2 (cd)

 
ASYMMETRIC - From Nowhere Came (cd-r/Digital Download)

 
CAN ATILLA - Ave (cd)

 
CAN ATILLA - Hi-Story (cd)

 
ATRIUM CARCERI - Cellblock (cd)

 
AUGUST WHEN - The Hour Before Midnight (cd-r)

 
AUREALITY - Sense (cd-r)

 
AUROM - Secret Garden (Digital Download EP)

 
AUSTRALIS - Lifegiving (cd)

 
AUSTRALIS - Sentient Genus (cd)

 
AUSTRALIS - The Gates of Reality (cd)

 
PAUL AVGERINOS - Muse of the Round Sky (cd)

 
PAUL AVGERINOS - Sky of Grace (cd)

 
PAUL AVGERINOS - Words Touch (cd)

 
AWENSON - Beyond The Galaxies (cd-r)

 
AWENSON - Saphonic (cd)

 
AWENSON - Wizard (CD)

 
AXESS - Fusion (cd)

 
AXESS - Voices of Dawn (cd)

 
AZUL Y NEGRO - Deja Vu (cd)


ALTUS
Complex Silence 22
DIGITAL DOWNLOAD, Treetrunk, 2012
As usual, Mike Carss (aka Altus) had not much to say about the music on "Complex Silence 22", a release in a series of albums of enigmatic atmospheres & soundfields created by fellow-ambient composer Phillip Wilkerson.
Once again, Mike displays he’s a master in creating beautiful textural music with a contemporary classic touch, sketching a vast scenery of contemplative, soft glowing ambient farscapes without rhythm that are perfect to sooth and massage the mind.

It’s sombre, subtle, long-form ambient poetry with occasional soft piano that seems to dissolve in space and time while tapping into the deep end in a profound harmonic sense. These smooth, spacious and warm synth washes are perfect to immersive into and to be cherished with headphones.

"Complex Silence 22" is available as free download from the Treetrunk netlabel.

Website: www.altusmusic.ca

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