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	W.A.DEPHUL - When aliens meet a drop of water (cd)


	DER WALDLäUFER - Wanderlust (Digital Download)


	LISA WALKER - Grooved Whale (cd)


	SEAN WASHBURN - Wave Mantra (cd)


	SEAN WASHBURN - Wave Mantra (CD)


	WASSONIC - Wassonic (cd-r/Digital Download)


	WATERBONE - Tibet (cd)


	JESSE WAUGH - Japanese Tea Garden (Digital Download)


	WAVE WORLD - Cloudseeder (cd)


	WAVE WORLD - Hieroglyphs (cd)


	WAVE WORLD - Tableaux (cd)


	WAVE WORLD - The Falls of Varnal (cd)


	WAVE WORLD - The Winds of Laax (cd)


	BERNARD WEADLING - Out of Time (cd)


	CHRISTIAN WELDE - Fairytales (cd)


	WELLENFELD - Pandemie (cd-r/digital download)


	WELLENFELD - Sunshine (cd-r/Digital Download)


	WELLENFELD - The Big Bang (cd-r/Digital Download)


	WELLENFELD - Trip to Illusion (cd-r)


	MICHAEL WHALEN - Like Rain Through My Hands (cd)


	MICHAEL WHALEN - Nightscenes (cd)


	CLIFFORD WHITE - Ascension (cd)


	CLIFFORD WHITE - Atlantis (cd)


	CLIFFORD WHITE - The Healing Touch (Ascension II) (cd)


	STEPHAN WHITLAN - Inertial Moments (cd-r/Digital Download)


	STEPHAN WHITLAN - Map Reference (cd)


	STEPHAN WHITLAN - Travelling Light (Digital Download)


	STEPHAN WHITLAN - Triangulation (cd)


	KLAUS WIESE - Perfume (cd)


	PHILLIP WILKERSON & CHRIS RUSSELL - Vague Traces (CD/Digital Download)


	PHILLIP WILKERSON - Amorphous Worlds (cd-r)


	PHILLIP WILKERSON - Complex Silence 23 (Digital Download)


	PHILLIP WILKERSON - Early Works (cd-r)


	PHILLIP WILKERSON - Highlands (Digital Download)


	PHILLIP WILKERSON - Interplay (Ep)


	PHILLIP WILKERSON - Sojourner (cd-r/Digital Download)


	PHILLIP WILKERSON - Starjournal (cd-r)


	PHILLIP WILKERSON - Still Point (cd-r)


	PHILLIP WILKERSON - Sun Tracer (cd-r)


	PHILLIP WILKERSON - Ten to Eleven (cd-r/Digital Download)


	PHILLIP WILKERSON - The Stars and Afterward (cd-r/Digital Download)


	PHILLIP WILKERSON - Ways of Forgetting (Digital Download EP)


	PHILLIP WILKERSON - Wondrous Encounters (CD-r/Digital Download)


	SIMON WILKINSON - Cryosleep Dreams (Digital Download)


	BEKKI WILLIAMS - Edge of Human (cd)


	ANDREW THOMAS WILSON - Carnarvon -Rain Forest- (cd)


	TERJE WINTHER - Electronic Regions (cd)


	WINTHERSTORMER - Electric Fairytales (cd)


	WINTHERSTORMER - Ground Connection (cd)


	WINTHERSTORMER - Woodwork (cd)


	WITHIN REASON - Farshadow (CD/Digital Download)


	WITHIN REASON - Substrate: Collected Elements (cd-r/digital download)


	WITHIN REASON - Subtle Shift (cd-r)


	WITHIN REASON - Transient Broadcasts (CD-r/Digital Download)


	WOLFSKIN FEAT. LAST INDUSTRIAL ESTATE - Stonegates of Silence (cd)


	JACK WOOD - Lighthouse (cd)


	RENé VAN DER WOUDEN - Altostratus / Cirrostratus (cd-r)


	RENé VAN DER WOUDEN - Fixus Naturalis (cd-r/Digital Download)


	RENé VAN DER WOUDEN - Numerus Fixus (cd)


	RENé VAN DER WOUDEN - Panorama (cd-r/Digital Download)


	RENé VAN DER WOUDEN - Pro Sequentia (cd-r)


	RENé VAN DER WOUDEN - Stargazer (CD-r/Digital Download)


	RENé VAN DER WOUDEN - Zeppelins! There they go (cd-r/Digital Download)


	DAVID WRIGHT - Connected (CD/Digital Downoad)


	DAVID WRIGHT - Dreams and Distant Moonlight (cd)


	DAVID WRIGHT - In Search of Silence (CD/Digital Download)


	DAVID WRIGHT - Live at the London Planetarium (CD/Digital Download)


	DAVID WRIGHT - Momentum (cd)


	DAVID WRIGHT - The Spirit of Light (Best of Volume 2) (CD/Digital Download)


	FRéDéRIC WURTZ - Sequence Time (Mc)


	BERNHARD WöSTHEINRICH - Live in New Jersey (Digital Download)


	ERIK WøLLO & BERNHARD WöSTHEINRICH - Weltenuhr (CD/Digital Download)


	ERIK WøLLO - Airborne (CD/Digital Download)


	ERIK WøLLO - Blue Radiance (CD/Digital Download)


	ERIK WøLLO - Celestia (Digital Download EP)


	ERIK WøLLO - Echotides (CD/Digital Download)


	ERIK WøLLO - Emotional Landscapes (cd)


	ERIK WøLLO - Gateway (cd)


	ERIK WøLLO - Guitar Nova (cd)


	ERIK WøLLO - Silent Currents (Live at Star’s End) (cd)


	ERIK WøLLO - Silent Currents 3 (Digital Download)


	ERIK WøLLO - Timelines (CD/Digital Download)


	ERIK WøLLO - Tundra (CD/Digital Download)


	ERIK WøLLO - Wind Journey (cd)

WAVE WORLD
Hieroglyphs
CD, Virtual Factory Records, 2011

After a five-year period of silence, the Dutch multimedia project Wave World resurfaced in the fall of 2011 with two new albums, "Hieroglyphs" being one the them.

The cd offers seven highly cinematic compositions, accompanied by many strange and insect sound effects expanding the visual experience. The sound design still bears the Wave World trademark from previous recordings: it’s spacious, mystic, melodic and quite oriental-inspired, merging sequenced patterns with lush sound paintings that sometimes refer back to classic electronic music. Even the theremin shortly shows up again.

The title track, split in three parts, is scattered over the 77-minute album without disturbing the cohesiveness of the release. Compared to the other tracks, part 1 is more lively, containing several breaks along more upfront sequencing, percussion and solos. Part 2 on the other hand heads into classic territory with nice violins and other string sections. Beside the many minimal stylings found on the album, I’m also fond of the pleasant high-tech flavour running underneath it all, especially notable on the cosmic sounding "Nanowasp DNA".

All in all, "Hieroglyphs" makes a worthy addition to the already existing Wave World releases. Nice going, guys!

Website: www.waveworld.tv