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	CADENCED HAVEN - Peregrination (cd)


	CALLISTO - Nyx (cd)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - Behind the Shadows (cd-r)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - Eigenspaces (cd-r)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - In this Moment, In the Place (cd-r)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - Light Echoes (cd)


	JAVI CáNOVAS - Nights of Brightness (cd-r)


	CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS - Hydrophonic Garden (cd)


	CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS - Interloper (cd)


	CARBONEIDS - Synthsyg (cd)


	MARTIN CARRADUS - Analog (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY & BRANNAN LANE - Climatic Infusion (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY & BRANNAN LANE - Dreamswirl (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY & GERARD GEARY - Mount Meru (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Natural Wonder (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Oceanic Space (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Skyhearts (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Starlight Volume 1 (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Starlight Volume 2 (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Starlight Volume 3 (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - Suntales (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY - The Inexplicable (cd-r)


	ROBERT CARTY & SYLKEN - The Endless Vista (cd-r)


	CHARLIE CASE & JONN SERRIE - Out of the Blue (dvd)


	DOLORES CASTRO - Fifth Dimension (cd)


	CATALIN - First Breath (cd)


	CELL - Hanging Masses (cd)


	CENTROZOON - Lovefield (cd)


	PETER CHALLONER - Abstract Ambient Form (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Beneath the Ice Flow (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Deconstructing Silence (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Interpolation (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Lunar Tide (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Music for Cloud Watching (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Music in Ambient Motion (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - Music in Suspended Animation (cd-r)


	PETER CHALLONER - The Other Side of Time (cd-r)


	CHAR-EL - Heaven and Earth (cd)


	CHAR-EL - Resurrection (cd)


	CHAR-EL - Worlds without End (cd)


	CLAUDE CHEMIN - Esthésies (cd)


	JOHN CHRISTIAN - Susbarbatus (cd-r)


	CIRCULAR - Sustans (cd)


	THE CIRCULAR RUINS - Empathy Test (cd)


	CIRCULUM MUSICUM - Phases (cd-r)


	TIM CLARK - Tales of the Sun People (cd)


	VINCENT CLARKE & MARTYN WARE - Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle (cd)


	MATT COLDRICK - Music for a Busy Head (cd)


	COLLAPSAR - Beyond the Event Horizon (cd)


	COLOURFORM - Visions of Surya (cd)


	COMPUTERCHEMIST - Aqual Measure (cd-r)


	CONTINUUM - Volume 1 (cd)


	CON_SENSE - Code Sent (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO & BRUNO SANFILIPPO - Indalo (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Ars Lucis (cd)


	MAX CORBACHO - BreathStream (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Far Beyond The Immobile Point (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Moontribe (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Nocturnal Emanations (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - The Resonant Memory of Earth (cd-r)


	MAX CORBACHO - Vestiges (cd)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Astral Journey (cd-r)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Electric Trick (cd)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Hypernova (cd-r)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Outerspace Gems (cd)


	COSMIC HOFFMANN - Space Gems (cd-r)


	BEN COX - On Water (cd)


	ROBERT HAIG COXON - The Silent Path (cd)


	JAMIE CRAIG - Illumination (cd)


	CREATE - In the Blink of an Eye (cd)


	CREATE - Lost on an Island of Adventure (cd)


	CREATE - Space Time Continuum (cd)


	CHARLES CREVIER , FRANCOIS KIRALY AND JEAN-FRANCOI - Music from the Sky (cd)


	CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE - Ausländer (cd)


	CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE - Moonscapes -How stones become enlighted- (cd)


	CYBER ZEN SOUND ENGINE & MATT BORGHI - The Intercepted Transmissions (cd)


	CYCLOTIMIA - Wasteland (cd)


	CYMPHONIC - Strataradialis (cd)


	CYSCAPE - Deep Sea Explorer (cd-r)

JAVI CáNOVAS
Nights of Brightness
CD-R, Neu Harmony, 2008

This is my second encounter with the retro-oriented music of Javi Canovas. The 60-minute album kicks off very nicely with the 17-minute" Nimbus", which features peppy, sequencer-driven Berliner School sequencing and engaging solo lines.
"Eclipse" is a shorter, dynamic track with beats, drums and lots of tweaked sequencers, topped by solo’s. The 10-minute "Metallic Core" offers a nice interplay of bass and lighter sequencer patterns.
"Mr Ivan" is a rather freaky dance piece which is out of place here.

Great vintage sequencing returns on the 7-minute "Fugitive Star", accompanied by mellotron flute and solo’s. "Beta" is the second weak effort on this cd with its hammering drums introducing a much nicer mellow melody.
The fx’s at the intro of the vintage piece "Protoplanet" lead into an overall quiet sonic excursion with varied sequencing and mellotron flutes.

All in all, the constant changing sequencer patterns and overall retro sound design make this attractive and lively, but things sound overdone when are given a progressive twist.

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