ALL|IS|CALM 2011
Various Artists
Free Floating – December 2011
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Brad Ross-MacLeod’s netlabel, Free Floating, releases its second winter/holiday compilation featuring 14 artists, including Altus, Andrew Lahiff, Phillip Wilkerson and Shane Morris. Greg M comments:
“In Crystalline, I tried to convey a feeling of the warmth I associate with the winter season. I chose to avoid any coldness in the music, and focused instead on the celebratory feeling of Christmas and New Year’s, of family, friends and new possibilities. I wanted the chimes to sound like stars twinkling merrily. The tubular bells highlight the underlying solemnity, established by the unfolding drone chord at the outset.”
| 1. | Burning Artist: Music Box Musings | 7.01 |
| 2. | Crystal Dreams: We Three Kings | 8.06 |
| 3. | Bing Satellites: Through the Snow | 10.49 |
| 4. | C.paradisi: Treetops Glisten | 9.04 |
| 5. | Gregg Plummer: Seed Beneath the Snow | 8.40 |
| 6. | Magnetic Wind: Stardust Amidst a Silent Night | 8.15 |
| 7. | eyes cast down: Crystalline | 11.37 |
| 8. | The Ambient Visitor: Midwinter | 9.18 |
| 9. | Shane Morris: Underneath the Mistletoe | 6.24 |
| 10. | Tange: Winter Psylence | 10.01 |
| 11. | Benjamin Dauer: Alluvial | 10.14 |
| 12. | Andrew Lahiff: Winter Sky Memories | 9.40 |
| 13. | Phillip Wilkerson: The Star | 6.39 |
| 14. | Altus: Pinegrove | 9.53 |