Significant Releases of 2020 (non-ranking order)

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Darshan Ambient: A Day Like Any Other (Spotted Peccary) Eleon: Cerulean (Heart Dance Records) Guitar Pilots: Magnificent Desolation (Synkronos Music) Steve Hauschildt: Nonlin (Ghostly International) Sven Laux/Harry Towell: Until We Fall (Fluid Audio) Neuland Neuland (self-released) James Newton Howard: A Hidden Life (Sony Classical) Eric the Taylor: The Guidance of Ancestry (Touched Music) -January 2020 Kevin Braheny Fortune: Liminal Space (self-released) Machinefabriek: Stillness Soundtracks II (Glacial Movements) Motionfield: A Clear Horizon (TXT Recordings) Various Artists: Nagual 5 (TXT Recordings) -February 2020 grum~pe: Beyond the Power of Words (self-released) Bob Guido: Bob Guido (self-released) Hollan Holmes: Milestones (Spotted Peccary) Huron: Live at Star's End 1/26/20 (self-released) Hyperkube: Remnants (self-released) Lisa Bella Donna: Tramontane (self-released) Daniel Lopatin: Uncut Gems (Warp) Frank Makowski: Canon der Finsternisse (Diffusschall) Steve Roach: The Sky Opens (Projekt) Markus Reuter: Live in Bethlehem 2013 (Iapetus Media) Juta Takahashi: Pleochroism (Neotantra) Thaneco: Alien Species (Thaneco Records) -March 2020 Alio Die/Parallel Worlds: The Utopian Blossom (Hic Sunt Leones) Alluste: Aludra (self-released) Amongst Myselves: The Good Earth (self-released) Kristen Agresta Copley: Around the Sun (self-released) Dave Bessell: Reality Engine (DiN) Christopher Bissonnette: The Wine Dark Sea (Dronarivm) Richard Bone: Empyrean Castles (Quirkworks) Cosmic Ground: Apocalypse 2020 (self-released) Daniel/Booth: Inverse (ECO) Ecovillage: Arrived (Dronarivm) Roger Eno/Brian Eno: Mixing Colours (Deutsche Grammophon) grum~pe: The Danger in Dreams (self-released) Vic Hennegan: Between the Spaces (self-released) jarguna: The Morning Star (Projekt) jarguna/Seetyca: Tales of Millennial Trees (Projekt) K Leimer: A Figure of Loss (Palace of Lights) Lingua Lustra: Astra (Exosphere) Nero... No Neuro: A Particular Timeline (Audio Bulb) Jeff Pearce: Songs for The Gathering (self-released) Perceptual Defence: But at the End Everything Will Be Alright! (self-released) Perceptual Defence/Robert Rich: Caelum et Infernum (Syngate) Perge: Out the Way We Came In (Perge Music) Phobos: A Visual Presence (self-released) Chris Russell: Destiny (Spotted Peccary) Arjen Schat: LP2 (Tresor d Argent) Staer: Amalthea (self-released) Syndromeda: K A L T (Syngate) Steve Tibbetts: Compilation: Acoustibbetts/Elektrobitts/Exotibbetts (Frammis) Chuck van Zyl: Live on Star's End 10.06.19 (industry8) Phillip Wilkerson: Absolute Fields (Stereoscenic Records) -April 2020 AeTopus: Deep Variants (self-released) Dave Bessell: Reality Engine (DiN) Steve Brand: Magical Thinking (Pioneer Light) Errant Space: Baato (self-released) John Gregorius: Full of Life (Spotted Peccary) Halftribe/Spinnet: Patterns of Sync (Synphaera) Janne Hanhisuanto: Slowology (self-released) Gary Husband/Markus Reuter: Music of Our Times (Moonjune) Volker Lankow: Granulierte Gegend (self-released) Luca Longobardi: Dep (The Ambient Zone) K Markov: Asteroid Field (self-released) Wolfgang Nachahmer: Triptychon (Syngate) David Norland: Glam Tear Stain (Denovali) Micah Pick: Brighter Than I Thought (Audio Bulb) Markus Reuter: Gratitude (Iapetus Media) Ulrich Schnauss: Improvisation #5 (Scripted Realities) Forrest Smithson: The Five Gazes (self-released) Various Artists - Waveform Magazine Issue 3 (self-released) -May 2020 John Luther Adams: Become Desert (Cantaloupe Music) Daniel Avery + Alessandro Cortini: Illusion Of Time (Phantasy Sound/Mute) Ian Boddy: The Gatherings 6 May 2000 (CIMA of PA) Ben Cox: Consciousness, and Other Tricks of the Light (Spotted Peccary) Divine Matrix: Helios (AD Music) Gert Emmens & Ruud Heij: Forgotten Tracks (self-released) fluXus: Circle Homeward (self-released) Fratoroler: Different (Syngate) Isostatic: Cloud Forms (Exosphere) Jack Hertz: Medicine Drones (Aural Films) jarguna/Henrik Meierkord: Tapestry Flow (Projekt) Mathieu Karsenti: Downstream Blue (Slowcraft) Kubusschnitt: Kubient II (self-released) Simon Lomax: eM (self-released) K Markov: Supernova (self-released) Martin Nonstatic: Apana (Ultimae) Jesper Pedersen: Three by 15 (self-released) Robert Rich: Offering to the Morning Fog (Soundscape) Steve Roach/Serena Gabriel: Nectar Meditation (Timeroom Editions) Mark Seelig: The Disciples' Path (Projekt) SineRider: Moonflowers (Dronarivm) Skoulaman: Deepminds (self-released) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Journey to the Basalt Seas (self-released) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Session 02 (self-released) subtractiveLAD: Mercy (self-released) Syndromeda: K A L T (Syngate) TM Solver: Oxymoron (Syngate) Saul Stokes: The Gatherings 17 November 2018 (CIMA of PA) Umlaut: Insight (Audio Bulb) Chuck van Zyl & Terry Furber: The Gatherings 17 November 2012 (CIMA of PA) Helene Vogelsinger: Contemplation (Modularfield) Windy & Carl: Allegiance and Conviction (Kranky) Various Artists: Chimera of a New World (Projekt) -June 2020 Alio Die: Allegorical Traces I (Hic Sunt Leones) Ian Boddy: Modulations (DiN/DDL) Ron Boots: The Gatherings 18 March 2017 (CIMA of PA) Howard Givens/Craig Padilla: The Bodhi Mantra (Spotted Peccary) Vic Hennegan: The Gatherings 14 November 2015 (CIMA of PA) Liquid Mind: Mindfulness (Real Music) Frank Makowski: Canon der Finsternisse (Diffusschall) K Markov: Beyond the Universe (self-released) K Markov: Visitors (Exosphere) Byron Metcalf: The Precipice of Choice (Dr Bam's Music) Tim Motzer: Inside (1k Recordings) Jeff Pearce: The Gatherings 7 October 2017 (CIMA of PA) Brendan Pollard: Prologue (Acoustic Wave) Pollard/Dolente: Live and More (Acoustic Wave) Thorsten Quaeschning/Markus Reuter: Behind Closed Doors (Iapetus Media) Resilience: Forgotten World (Carpe Sonum) Richmond/Grenader [(et al.]: POV2 (ZSR Records) Steve Roach: Stillpoint (Timeroom Editions) Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: The Mosaic of Transformation (Ghostly International) The Soviet Space Dog Project: From the Time During (self-released) Ian Staer: Iterated Processes (self-released) Martin Sturtzer: Far Beyond the Stars (Exosphere) Helene Vogelsinger: Contemplation (Modularfield) Phillip Wilkerson: Metaphors (self-released) Various Artists: Portals (Behind the Sky Music) -July 2020 Apollo North: Binary Down Lines (self-released) Daniel Avery: Love + Light (Mute) Rene de Bakker: The Uncertain Path (Groove Unlimited) Sylvain Carel: Sunrise on Panipat (Syngate) Stan Dart: Murinsel III (Syngate) Jon Durant/Robert Jurjendal: Across the Evening (Alchemy Records) Paul Ellis: Rainforest and Pavement - Groove Unlimited) Endless Melancholy: A Perception of Everything (Sound in Silence) Yair Etziony: We Were Here Before, We Will Be Here After (Seasides on Postcards) Extraworld: Aphelion (self-released) grum~pe: The Swallowing Sky (self-released) Guitar Pilots: The Gatherings 22 April 2017 (CIMA of PA) Robert Hakalski: World Axis With Hare (Singularity) Porya Hatami: Kani + Remixes (Dronarivm) Vic Hennegan: The Gatherings 14 November 2015 (CIMA of PA) Hyperkube: Flux vs Flow (self-released) Noveller: Arrow (Ba Da Bing Records) Phobos: As the Daylight Fades (self-released) Brendan Pollard: Isolated Passages (Acoustic Wave) [.que]: And Inside (Sound in Silence) Remote Vision: Hypnos (Exosphere) Sam Rosenthal/jarguna: Sunwashed Evening Fire (Projekt) Steve Roach: A Soul Ascends (Projekt) Chris Russell: Elliptical (Exosphere) Scanner: An Ascent (DiN) Tomas Senkyrik: Fond (Slowcraft) Shinpal: Momentary Disappeared Memory (Syngate) The Soviet Space Dog Project: The Summer Solstice Sessions (self-released) subtractiveLAD: The Middle of Nowhere (self-released) Those Disappeared: Devolver (self-released) Phillip Wilkerson: As Light As Dust (self-released) -August 2020 The Adelaidean: Isolation (Projekt) AeTopus: Variant (self-released) Awakened Souls: How We Heal (Stereoscenic) Julianna Barwick: Healing is a Miracle (Ninja Tune) Matt Borghi/Michael Teager: Subterranean Bearings (self-released) Steve Brand: High Strangeness (Pioneer Light) City of Dawn: Aubade (Heart Dance Records) Matt Coldrick: Music for a Busy Head vol 2 (self-released) Cornel & Black: Broken Light Sculpture (self-released) Cosmic Star Babies: Celestial Beings (self-released) Delicate Monster: The Gatherings 16 November 2013 (CIMA of PA) Eriks Esenvalds: Translations (Naxos) Serena Gabriel [w/Steve Roach]: Inanna's Dream (SoundQuest Music/Projekt) Havdis: Flugloya (gterma) Isostatic: Glacial Epoch (Exosphere) Johann Johannsson: First and Last Men (Deutsche Grammophon) Sverre Knut Johansen: Dreams Beyond (Spotted Peccary) Lingua Lustra: Omni (Exosphere) K Markov: Mystical Journey (self-released) Federico Mosconi: Il Tempo Della Nostra Estate (Slowcraft Records) Tim Motzer: Inside (1k Recordings) Ndr0n: White (Truthtable) Neuro... No Neuro: Let's Be Happy (Audio Bulb) The Orb: Abolition of the Royal Familia (Cooking Vinyl) Jeff Pearce: Hidden Shores/Empty Beach (self-released) Phobos: The Argon Portal (self-released) TJ Porter: Here Now - self-released) Simon Posford: Flux & Contemplation: Portrait of an Artist in Isolation (Twisted Records Ltd) Max Richter: Voices (Decca) Schmidt/Cornell: Eniwetok Suite (self-released) Forrest Smithson: Lejue (self-released) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Tales from the Tenth Planet (self-released) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Under the Purple Sky (self-released) Anne Sulikowski: Bedroom Drones (self-released) Tapes and Topographies: A Pulse of Durations (Past Inside the Present) Three Point Circle: Layered Contingencies (Palace of Lights) Johan Tronestam: Next Step (Groove Unlimited) Under the Dome: Almagestma (self-released) Erik Wollo/Michael Stearns: Convergence (Projekt) Johnny Woods: Pavilions (Behind the Sky Music) -September 2020 Architects of Existence: Three Deep Breaths (Carpe Sonum) Bluetech: Underwater Cities (Behind the Sky Music) David Cordero: Honne (Dronarivm) Robert Davies: Incandescence (Hic Sunt Leones) Extraworld: Starless (Exosphere) Forrest Fang: The Book of Wanderers (Projekt) Chihei Hatakeyama/Dirk Serries: Black Frost (Glacial Movements) Mathieu Karsenti: Bygones (Slowcraft Records) Kevin Keller: The Front Porch of Heaven (self-released) K Leimer: Music for Land and Water | Complete (Palace of Lights) K Leimer/Marc Barreca: Chains of Being (Abstrakce Records) Simon Lomax: An Ember Glows/We Echo Endlessly (Council of Nine) Orbital Decay: The Gatherings (CIMA of PA) Rachel Palmer: Antecedent (Modularfield) Steve Peters/Steve Roden: Not a Leaf Remains as it Was (12k Music) Michael Rother: Dreaming (Groenland) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Pacific Gravity (self-released) TaboTago: Simulacron (Iapetus Media) Various Artists: Head in the Clouds (Fruits de Mer Records) Various Artists: Strange Selectors (Werra Foxma) -October 2020 A.D.S.R.: Uno (syngate) Blue Lily Commission: Cosmic Delay (self-released) Blue Lily Commission: Ombience (self-released) Bouvetoya: The Fiction Makers (Syngate) John Christian: Elastic Stochastic (self-released) John Christian: Titanic Organic (self-released) Corrado Maria De Santis: A Dark Mist (Bullflat3.8) Desensitized: Hemispherica Portalis (Spotted Peccary) Djam Karet: Suspension and Displacement (HC Productions) Filter Kaffee: Filter-Kaffee 104 (Manikin) Foam and Sand: Circles Inside a Circle - Modularfield) Matthias Grubel: Matters of Stability (Truthtable) jarguna: My Temple (Projekt) Laroth: Reflections (txt recordings) K Markov: Dimension Warp (self-released) Martin Nonstatic: Treeline (Ultimae) Off Land: Welkin Paths (txt recordings) Craig Padilla/Skip Murphy: Waveforms (See Peace Music) TJ Porter: Glacial (self-released) Markus Reuter: LTD017 Soundscapes (Iapetus Media) Steve Roach: Tomorrow (Projekt) Sam Rosenthal et al: Tim Where Are You Now (Projekt) Softbase: Move with the Tides (self-released) Softbase: Of Its Time (self-released) Starterra: Celestial (Exosphere) Time Being: The Ocean of Time (Spotted Peccary) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Dr Li's Science Experiment (self-released) Spuntic: Silent Escape (txt recordings) Stimulus Timbre: Unfolding Cycles (txt recordings) TaboTago: Simulacron (Iapetus Media) Tukico: Primitive (Subcontinental Records) Michael Whalen: Sacred Spaces (Myndstream) Russ Young: Tunnels to Float Through (Audiobulb) Xisle: The Gatherings 9 May 1992 (CIMA of PA) Various Artists: Form and Function (DiN) Various Artists: Gemstones (Cyclical Dreams) Various Artists: Head in the Clouds (Fruits de Mer Records) -November 2020 Alien Planetscapes: An Act of Reason (Penga/Alternate Media Tapes) Olafur Arnalds: Some Kind of Peace (Mercury KX) Ian Boddy: Axiom (DiN) Mike Clay: Imaginary Edges (Heart Dance Records) Cosmic Ground: Cosmic Ground 0110 (Studio Fleisch) Dark Sparkler: Are You Working With Me or Against Me (Behind the Sky Music) Diamond Gloss: FLK (Fluttery Records) Evenfall: Monsoon Winds (Heart Dance Records) Fringo Chills: ...cooled (Syngate) Francis M Gri: The Ropes (Slowcraft) Kevin Kendle: Laniakea (Eventide) Lars Leonhard: Spaceflight (Synphaera) James Murray/Mike Lazarev: Sunnata (Home Normal) Jesper Pedersen: Katydids (self-released) Penterakt: Conquest of the Moon (self-released) Brendan Pollard: Isolated Passages Two (Acoustic Wave) Arjen Schat: Cosmic Reef (self-released) Son of Ohm: The End of Time (self-released) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Experiments in Sound (self-released) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Canine Voting Made Simple (self-released) Strange Telemetry: The Expanding Mind (Moonstone Records) Sydalesis: Dark Beam (self-released) Tapes and Topographies: Inoculations (Dronarivm) Transponder: Hyperion Gate (Exosphere) Christel Veraart: Pleiades (self-released) Johnny Woods: The Wild vol 1 (self-released) Various Artists: The Darkest Voyage (Fruits de Mer) Various Artists: Horror Films 2020 (Aural Films) -December 2020 Matt Borghi: Music for Meditation and Sleep: Short Forms Vol 1 (Slobor Media) Steve Brand: Common Wonders (Pioneer Light) Cosmic Star Babies: Greetings From the Unknown (self released) Dreamstate Logic: A Place Outside of Time (self released) Hotel Neon: All is Memory (Fluid Audio) Echo Season: Solar Metric (Synphaera) Robert Rich: Neurogenesis (Soundscape) Juta Takahashi: Music for Urban Promenades (Lunisolar records) Juta Takahashi: Music for Urban Promenades vol 2 (Lunisolar records) Johnny Woods/Josh Ascalon: Ghosts of Christmas Yet to Come (Superspectrum Records) Xisle: Live at The Gatherings 9 December 1995 (CIMA of PA) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Further Experiments in Sound (self-released) The Soviet Space Dog Project: Advanced Experimentation (self-released) K Markov: Ancient Light (self-released) Echo Season: Solarmetric (Synphaera) Alluste: Beyond the Infinity (self-released) Orbifold C: Apeiron (Groove Unlimited) Valot Hill/Dynastor: Midnight Fairytales (Dronarivm) Hotel Neon: Moments (Sound in Silence) Tim Motzer: Tear Aside the Veils (1k recordings) Erik Wollo: The Abandoned Sea (Outlaw Ocean) Colin Rayment: Igneous (Syngate) Son of Ohm: Wandering Monk (self-released) Various Artists: AEther Waves Vol 2 (AEther Waves) Matthias Grassow: The Dreamquest Sessions (gterma) Roedelius: Selbstportrait Wahre Liebe (Bureau B) Kjetil Jerve: The Soundtrack of My Homes (Dugnad) William Basinski: Lamentations (Temporary Residence) Aria Rostami/Daniel Blomquist: Still (Glacial Movements AirSculpture: Metal Adjacent (self-released) Jim Ottaway: When Eternity Touches Times (self-released) Various Artists: Waveform Magazine Issue 3 (self-released Mystified: Yenisei Crossing (Spotted Peccary) Anantakara: Newt [At Whose Feet is Eternity] (Aural Films) William Basinski: Lamentations (Temporary Residence) Peter Chilvers/Jon Durant: Always Golden Sands (Alchemy Records) Dreamstate Logic: A Place Outside of Time (self-released) Matthias Grassow: The Dreamquest Sessions (gterma) Hotel Neon: Moments (Sound in Silence) Icarus-Daedalus: Invisus (Antagonist) Colin Rayment: Igneous (Syngate) Sigur Ros: Odin's Raven Magic (Krunk) Son of Ohm: Wandering Monk (self-released) Sunbeamer: Halcyon (Folded Note) 2020 in Review Broadcasts: 27 December 2020 Playlist - Part One 03 January 2021 Playlist - Part Two 10 January 2021 Playlist - Part Three 17 January 2021 Playlist - Part Four 24 January 2021 Playlist - Part Five

Highlights From STAR'S END : 2020
01.26.20 Huron performs a live in-studio radio concert on STAR'S END 02.23.20 STAR'S END Winter Fundraiser 2020 is another record breaking success! Thanks to Everyone who called in and made a donation, and to phone-room volunteers: Chaka Benson, Neil Cippon, Art Cohen, Diane King, Shawn Kralicek, Chuck Nixon, Maria Roman-Gremmel, Ian Staer and Jeff Towne 02.23.20 The industry8 label releases the CD Chuck van Zyl: Live on Star's End 10.05.19 - which is initially available only as a "Thank You" Gift to STAR'S END supporters 03.22.20 STAR'S END presents specially commissioned tracks by Marvin Allen, Ian Boddy, Ron Boots, Craig Padilla, Markus Reuter, Jason Sloan, Ian Staer, Skoulaman (Hans van Kroonenburg) and the unreleased Vic Hennegan 60 minute track Star's End Jam (serving in place of his 2020 pandemic postponed on-air concert) 03.26.20 WXPN 2020 Auction Item #104 the private Salon Concert and workshop with Chuck van Zyl was awarded to winning bidder Jim Causey, but postponed until concerts and travel advisements are lifted 05.03.20 STAR'S END presents the specially commissioned Jeff Pearce 60 minute track Empty Beach (serving in place of his 2020 pandemic postponed on-air concert) June/July 2020 The Wire: July 2020 Features John Morrison's excellent essay on Chuck van Zyl (please access Zyl-bient: How Ambient Radio Pioneer Chuck van Zyl Reframed Psychedelia's Utopian Dreaming) 11.01.20 STAR'S END presents a special Halloween Holiday themed show in a special six-hour mix of seasonally appropriate music, including the unreleased AirSculpture 60 minute track Widely Spaced (serving in place of their 2020 pandemic postponed on-air concert) 12.12.20 Chuck van Zyl in 2020 marked 40 years of service with STAR'S END This milestone was noted in an Interview/Q&A presented by The Rotunda (pleases access the archive recording) 12.13.20 STAR'S END preempted for WXPN's All Time 2020 Greatest Songs Countdown special programming 12.20.20 STAR'S END presents the annual Regional Winter Holiday themed show
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