The Ambient Ping presents SYLKEN with Redjet Media visuals

["Scott M2" <scott@dreamstate.to>]

* Eric will be using a Repeater, Steven a DL4 & Wally, a Boomerang.

THE AMBiENT PiNG   http://www.theambientping.com
Free - Every Tuesday Night - doors open at 9pm - 1st set at 9:30
  @ club nia / C'est What - 19 Church St. at Front St. - Toronto
         3 blocks east of the Union Station subway.
         map - http://www.cestwhat.com/map.html
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This Tuesday June 24th - SYLKEN with Redjet Media visuals

Sylken invite you to their first performance of 2003 with
Eric Hopper and guest artist Steven Sauvé of karmafarm.
Ambient trumpeter extrordinaire Wally Jericho will join Eric
and Steven for the 2nd set, to bring you the unique experience
of Sylken's fluidic textures, dreamy atmospheres and rhythmic
nuances. Redjet Media will provide the digital lightscapes
for the show. This evening will also feature the official release
of Sylken's second CD, titled "PiNG" ( available at ping things
and online at CD Baby - http://www.cdbaby.com/sylken ),
a dynamic and flowing CD of dramatic live performances
from THE AMBiENT PiNG, featuring all three artists.

Sylken -  http://www.sylken.ca
karmafarm - http://www.karmafarm.ca
Wally Jericho - http://www.wallyjericho.com

Between Sets CD - "Humidity" disc 3 by Robert Rich (Hypnos)
Ambient pioneer Robert Rich is touring the American Northeast
again. Here's a taste of the Rich live experience as we spin part
of "Humidity", his epic 3 CD live collection of 1998 performances.
Disc 3 opens with some of the beautiful steel guitar work that
many of you will remember from Robert's Toronto show last year.
http://www.robertrich.com/index.html
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Coming Tuesday July 1st - dreamSTATE with Jim Field
            and Redjet Media visuals

dreamSTATE - http://www.dreamSTATE.to
Jim Field - http://www.geocities.com/russian_rheas
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rik maclean's *ping things* CD Reviews

"One" by TouchXtone

I think that improvisation and spontaneity have always been
at the heart of ambient music. As a result of it's free form
nature, it's a genre that lends itself well to the idea of
letting things happen naturally, going with the flow.

"One" by TouchXtone is a prime example of the results of
that spirit of improvisation. The collaborative project of
Michael Thomas Roe and Jim Combs, TouchXtone is the
result of a series of three two hour recording sessions where
both recorded live to a two track CD recorder. And it's a
testimony to the talents of both how seemless the recording is,
how natural it sounds despite the lack of rehearsals or familiarity
with each other.

Presented as a longform piece divided up into six smaller
movements, "One" has an elegance and sophistication about it
that I find most refreshing, most appealling. Dancing along the
periphery of different styles, TouchXtone creates a work of great
depth and great emotion having been able to tap into something
primal and shared between us all made all the more impressive
by it's natural origins.

"One" by TouchXtone is a beautiful example of the power of
spontaneity and the inherent beauty of music in it's purest,
most unadulterated form.  Brilliant.

rik maclean - rik@pingthings.com  -  http://www.pingthings.com

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