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	MA JA LE & JAMES JOHNSON - Live Under a Harvest Moon (cd-r)


	MAGIC SOUND FABRIC - Uplift Drift (cd)


	MARK MAHONEY - If Dreams were Clouds (cd-r)


	MAITREYA - .74 (cd)


	MAITREYA - From the Mothership (cd)


	MAITREYA - Telluric Waves (cd)


	MAKO - Forms of Life (cd)


	MAKO - In Other Regions (lp)


	MAKO - Meeting with the Sea (lp)


	MANK - Isbjorn (cd-r)


	MANTARAY - Numinous Island (cd)


	MARA'S TORMENT - MT96061 (cd-r)


	MARCONI UNION - A Lost Connection (cd-r)


	JON MARK - A Celtic Story (cd)


	JON MARK - Alhambra (cd)


	JON MARK - Land of Merlin (cd)


	JON MARK - The Standing Stones of Callanish (cd)


	DEBORAH MARTIN & CHERYL GALLAGHER - Tibet (cd)


	DEBORAH MARTIN & ERIK WøLLO - Between Worlds (cd)


	DEBORAH MARTIN & J. ARIF VERNER - Anno Domini (cd)


	DEBORAH MARTIN - Deep Roots, Hidden Water (remastered) (cd)


	MARTIN/KLAMT/ROWND - Convergence (cd)


	DAVID MICHAEL MATUCH - Before Reality (cd)


	MICHAEL MEARA - Abstractus Somnarium: Deep Space Meditations (cd-r)


	MICHAEL MEARA - The Last Days of Autumn (cd-r)


	MEGABYTE - Powerplay (cd)


	MEGATONE - Pure Land (cd-r)


	MEMORY GEIST - Funereal Cavern (cd)


	MARK MERCURY - Music from the Cycles of Spheres (cd)


	MARK MERCURY - Music of the Domes (cd)


	PETER MERGENER & KLAUS HOFFMANN-HOOCK - Visions of Asia (cd)


	PETER MERGENER - Creatures (cd)


	PETER MERGENER - Passage in Time (cd)


	BYRON METCALF, DASHMESH KHALSA & STEVE ROACH - Dream Tracker (cd)


	BYRON METCALF, MARK SELIG & STEVE ROACH - Nada Terma (cd)


	ROBERT BEAU MICHAELS - Dance of Ecstasy – Dance Music to free the spirit (cd-r)


	ROBERT BEAU MICHAELS - The Wasteland -music for an apocalyptic world- (cd-r)


	ROBERT BEAU MICHAELS - Zero Point –Music to Disappear in- (cd-r)


	MIND OVER MATTER - Indian Meditation (cd)


	MIND OVER MATTER - Indian Meditation II (cd)


	MIND OVER MATTER - On the Wings of the Wind (cd)


	MISTER VAPOR VS ALTUS - Falling Out Of Orbit (cd-r)


	MODULARWHITE - Alpa (cd)


	MODULARWHITE - Canada (cd-r)


	MON0 - Multifidus (cd-r)


	MON0 - Proficisci (cd-r)


	MONOLAKE - HongKong (cd)


	MOONBOOTER - Cosmoclimax (cd)


	MOONBOOTER - Orbit Number 2 (cd-r)


	MOONBOOTER - World of Apes 1 (cd)


	JAMES MURRAY - Where Edges Meet (cd)


	MYSTICAL SUN - Primordial Atmospheres (cd)


	MYTHOS - Gallery Concerts (cd)


	MYTHOS - Surround Sound Offensive (cd)


	MYTHOS - Unabsteigbar! (cd-r)

ROBERT BEAU MICHAELS
The Wasteland -music for an apocalyptic world-
CD-R, Private Release, 2010

Robert Beau Michaels is an American expat who currently resides in Prague, Czech Republic. He initially tried to pursue a career as screenwriter in Hollywood during the 1980's and 90's.
Frustrated with his inability to sell his scripts and later on also not getting any of his non-fiction book series published, he decided to devote his life to another passion: composing music.

The compassionate music on "The Wasteland" is of an unhurried, cinematic nature, offering smooth and gentle flowing textural music with spacy and romantic undercurrents. The string soundscapes slowly curl and wind down in harmony with a sense of deep-felt melancholy as if it was to say that not everything is lost in this crazy world.

In that process, the soft yearning violin parts are a great counterpoint as they fly over the dense textures and shades. The darker, slightly gloomy soundscapes are especially found in the middle section of the album.

Some might classify it as new age, but I think Robert’s nicely rendered and multi-layered atmospheric structures reach out further than that, bringing a honest message of hope through the music of "The Wasteland"…

P.S. The music is sold only as digital MP3 download at Itunes.

Website: www.rbmichaels.com