Dynamic instrumental keyboard derived music with Vangelis influences! The first of the 8 tracks (‘First Breath’) lasts eight minutes and features strong melodies from acres of orchestral and string styled keyboards, sampled choral sounds (male & female), swirling space synths, and chunky percussive rhythms. There is a filmic grandeur that completes the panoramic picture stretching out before you and it is all incredibly soundtrack oriented without actually being one. ‘Zulu Spirits Call’ continues this feel, but adds more of an ethnic, rhythmic touch, stripping away some of the immensity to allow the instrumental voices to have more of a say - All very chunky, tuneful and exotic. ‘Iceberg’ is far from cold – just the opposite in fact. It’s a neat slice of rippling synths together with more choral sounds, real depth and a mix of the tuneful and the atmospheric, and again, it’s all very rich and film-like. The rest of the album largely continues this grand, Vangelis epic feel with much in the way of Deep Forest style ethnic sampling and rhythmic undercurrents. The entire CD comes across very much like a soundtrack for some unmade film, with all the feel and spectacle that you’d expect from such majestically sweeping, at times almost classical sounding, music. Definitely for fans of the symphonic side of ‘EM’!

961763
Weight: 150.00 g

David Wright, Robert Fox and other musicians collaborate on an instrumental album that promises so much and delivers it all in abundance!  It's a seventy-two minute, 18 track (all interlinked) epic featuring electrifying, incredibly dynamic music that’s full of the gorgeous dream-like, Vangelis-style ethereal themes filled with the type of massed high-flying, multi-layered symphonic strings and heavenly choir sounds that fans of either artist would expect. However, for Code Indigo, these converge with a range of fresh textures from a colourful palette of new sounds to form sonic tapestries that expand further into territories new. There is more power, bigger dynamics, stronger vision and scope in this music than either musician’s earlier solo work provided, but the group environment still encapsulates all that is best about the music of both musicians, and rolls out something that is both solid and grandiose. The themes are in typical UK synth style; full sounding with plenty of depth and feeling, with each new movement seeming to take the music up on to an altogether higher plain than before – It is modern sounding too, mainly thanks to the power of the pounding rhythms, but what makes the music so exciting is the sheer depth of range it covers. It is all immaculately played, and crafted with a superb production and the length of tracks that ensure a good idea never out stays its welcome. The disc moves through the familiar vast expanses of keyboards that are normally associated with Wright and Fox compositions, with spacey passages, booming synth layers, fragile tinkling piano sections and dense wedges of crystalline soundscapes created with synth choirs and other effects. Added sound dimensions come in the shape of David Gilmour style soaring electric guitar solos, densely powerful deep earth percussion that provides some thunderous backdrops and voice sampling / ethereal ethnic chanting that brings an Enigma like feel to some parts – This is instrumental music that really does have it all. The album flows along as one long piece (which should more than please those who not into short tracks) and the solid, grandiose, thematic soundscapes ascend and descend into the furthermost reaches of the inner (musical) soul, and there is a definite harder edge to the music than is not present in the individual members' previous solo offerings. The album climaxes on a real high point with an incredible Vangelis style finale and then fades off into the distance, leaving you with a sense that you have just been part of a breathtaking musical experience; one that has featured something from several spheres of synth/ambient music and beyond. Fox & Wright fans buy this CD on the strength of earlier solo albums and they are not disappointed, but 'For Whom The Bell' also brings an entirely new audience into the fold - Some come from the ‘Ambient’ field, and others from the ‘Progressive’ areas of instrumental music. It is a wonderful record - an album that no one with an ear for inspired, emotionally charged music should pass up on.

460360
Weight: 150.00 g

A rather excellently recorded live album from the David Wright & Robert Fox band covering a fairly wide musical territory in terms of mood and pace, ranging from the splendours of the almost symphonic and pastoral sounds that slowly travel on some tracks, through to the positively rampant percussive rhythms and soaring electric guitar textures of others. Everything is delivered in a very musical fashion, with an effect that generally tends to be on the pleasant side of menacing, with deep soundscapes and booming bass undercurrents around which snake-like synths and guitars slide and twist effortlessly, as the compositions slowly rise. It's intense yet spacious music with the presence of a fair sprinkling of sequencer work, the usual multi-layered synths of Mr. Wright and the big expansive choral effects of Mr. Fox ensuring that this is one set of music that is varied and sure to go down well with almost all synth fans everywhere. A superb companion to 'For Whom The Bell...' album!

670761
Weight: 150.00 g

For an album by a trio featuring two synth/keyboards players, a guy on guitars and bass, with all three responsible for rhythmic programming – mostly drums, this is a remarkably light and easily digested album. It is packed full of strong melodies, tunes and vast soundscapes, all delivered with an easy flow and a somewhat languid atmosphere, the whole thing adding up to a whole that is both relaxed and substantial. With touches, and I mean just touches, of ‘Wish You Were Here’-era Floyd, and no real comparisons on the ‘Synth’ side of things to go with, all we can tell you is that this is an original - A musically satisfying and most interesting album for those of you out there that want long tracks full of great tune-led passages. The construction of the 6 pieces features the instruments layered and developed in a manner that ensures no one passage is overdone. No single instrument is allowed to take up too much space before something else happens in the mix, and the overall feel is of deep, almost oceanic, serenity. It’s a synth album for sure, only with extra strength thanks to the electric guitars, but simply with a much greater melodic sense of invention than many others could muster. This is real crossover music that is capable of gathering fans from a whole range of genres, and should not be restricted to the world of ‘EM’ alone.

935886
Weight: 150.00 g

“Beyond The Pillars Of Hercules and the mists of time lay a land full of riches, silver and gold…Atlantis?” That is what this fifty-six-minutes/10 track album is all about. Musically, it is from the same league of music that the likes of Vangelis and Andy Pickford were operating in at the same time. It is grandiose, epic, anthemic and filmic. Some tracks evoke spectacular images and others more serene, of fantasy places that only ever appear in big-budget sci-fi movies or in the imagination of fantasy book writers. The whole album is very well put together, played & produced. You hear everything from lavish, sweeping synth sounds to textures of the more delicate variety, sampled voices and heavenly choral choirs, powerful rhythmic forces and those that are more gentle and flowing plus a more than ample display of themes and melodies (yes, this guy can really write a good tune). The album tends to be dynamic and dramatic for the first half and more laid-back for the second. It is performed in a style of symphonic synth music that is ideally suited to film and television work, but it is also perfect for those of us who prefer to creat their own mind-pictures in a darkened room, tending towards being synth music that’s in that symphonic half-way house between the worlds of instrumental rock and classical music. Basically, fantasy symphonic music does not come too much better than this. Click on the ‘More Product Information’ link for an extended review with a track-by-track description.

739805
Weight: 150.00 g

Click here for more product information

This artist was a definite Vangelis sound alike on the debut ‘Atlantis’ release, but he is not (quite) so much of one now, because there’s a whole host of new element that have crept into the sound of Robert De Fresnes on his second album! This is a sixty-five minute concept album comprising of 3 main parts with each suite featuring 3 individual tracks. It is one amazing, semi-instrumental symphonic crossover album that falls into a category that lies somewhere between the music styles of Enigma, Vangelis, Mike Oldflied and parts of Pink Floyd. It is varied to the point that it can be enjoyed by a wide cross section of music fans, but if you can’t handle some vocal elements in the music you listen to, then perhaps that might be a deciding factor in whether to buy or not, but if you are into having some vocals (especially female) as part of the musical experience, then you will find a lot to enjoy in this album. Click on the ‘More Product Information’ link for an extended review with a track-by-track description.

296667
Weight: 150.00 g

Click here for more product information

5 long spacey tracks that vary between cosmic/ethereal styled works to rich symphonic pieces that have a dreamy, 'outer world' feel. Certain passages are also slightly reminiscent of some of the Vangelis music used for Carl Sagen’s 'Cosmos' TV series from a few years back. The more rhythmic passages also have a noticeable raw edge that emanates from late 70's, early 80's Tangerine Dream / Neuronium / Synergy influences.

258276
Weight: 150.00 g

A second album made in the style of the first one featuring melodic spacey music tracks that vary between cosmic/ethereal styled works to rich symphonic pieces that have a dreamy, 'outer world' feel. Certain passages are also slightly reminiscent of some of the Vangelis music used for Carl Sagen’s 'Cosmos' TV series from a few years back, but the more rhythmic passages have a noticeable raw edge that emanates from late 70's, early 80's Tangerine Dream / Neuronium / Synergy influences.

575255
Weight: 150.00 g

Click here for more product information