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Lena Selyanina and I had recently the pleasure of visiting the scenic Lofoten Islands of Norway. We were so inspired by what we saw and felt there that right after returning home we went to our studio and created an environmental ambient track reflecting our fresh impressions and memories from this exceptionally beautiful archipelago. As Lofoten is located above the Polar Circle we could also enjoy the fabulous midnight sun which kept the scenery lit all night long.

Here's the song, please have a listen and enjoy:

Lofoten

(The song is released under Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license so…

Our Doc & Lena Selyanina duo has just released a song called Black Rain. It is the first track to get ready from our coming album Ground Zero that focuses on the Hiroshima bombing on 6th August 1945. Our initial aim was to get the album ready by this anniversary of the bombing but that proved out to be too ambitious so we decided to give the album whatever time its material requires and release just this song for now.

We have also made a video for the song.

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Steppe is the latest deep ambient track from Doc & Lena Selyanina. It is a peaceful, meditative and atmospheric song inspired by the vast expanses of steppes. Lena, who composed the song, has personal experience of the steppe nature as she lived and worked a year on the Russian side of Kazakh Steppe as a beginning music teacher.

A 24bit / 88.2 kHz FLAC encoded audiophile version of the song (400 MB download) is also available as a torrent.

Doc & Lena Selyanina has just released a new long ambient track called Sphinx. It is a dark, meditative piece with an aura of mystery, inspired by the Great Sphinx of Giza. Imagine an ancient sphinx meditating under starry heavens..

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Netlabel Musictrade has now started to share Lena Selyanina's solo music on Last.fm. The first releases are Piano Poetry, a compilation of three solo piano compositions, and Oi Da Ne Vecher, Lena's choral remake of a beautiful Russian folk classic.

Lena is presently working on a new solo piano album 'Piano Paintings' which is expected to be released within 1-2 weeks. The new album will naturally be made available also on Last.fm.

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The Art of Ambience is a special Last.fm-targeted Musictrade release containing three longer ambient tracks earlier released as singles by Doc & Lena Selyanina. The idea is to bring the singles directly available to Last.fm users; similar special single compilations are to be expected at least from KraftiM, Softspace and Doc.

Kuala Lumpur Sydney is an experimental ambient track mixing together sounds from a field recording material from a Malaysian Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur to Sydney and dark variations of J.S. Bach’s Siciliana. The field recordings are from August 2005 and were done by Musictrade…

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Lena Selyanina and I have just released our seventh album titled Vienna Blue. All our albums so far have fitted into the broad genre definition of ambient, but this one is something else. To put some sort of label on it, I would characterize it as avantgarde with influences from classical, jazz, blues and even electronic music.

The album started to unfold from the track Der Leiermann which we recorded in May 2008. The song was inspired by the similarly titled song from Franz Schubert's Winterreise song cycle - a work that had made a deep impression on…

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Synaptic Activity

On his fifth album the English experimental electronica wizard Softspace takes us to new exciting journeys into microcosms of bioelectric fields, pulsating neural synapses and other similarly strange environments.

Numerous lovers of experimental electronic music around the world have already found Softspace's talent and imagination and know what to expect: fantastically rich layered synth sounds and sonic imageries, surprising turns and twists in the songs, beauty and peace within strangest chaos.

Jamatrix

Jamatrix is the second full album release on Musictrade from the Dutch experimental electronica artist and sound architect KraftiM. The Jamatrix project was based on samples collected from five artists who all are releasing their music on the French Jamendo website. From each source track six samples were distilled and subjected to a thorough processing treatment, resulting in a matrix where each of the six KraftiM tracks uses material from five selected samples, one from each of the contributing artists.

This exceptional idea and approach has produced a highly original and musically interesting work. The tracks are relaxed in…

Sense Existence Night

This is an exceptionally good ambient album - a collection of different dreams, each with its own special atmosphere. The dreamscapes and the soundscapes are mostly on the dark side but not in a gloomy way. The talent of the artist shines through in the production: interesting, imaginative use of sampled sounds, good arrangements, good use of synths… things keep evolving all the time so that the listener does not get bored at all. Dobry roboczy!