"This work is a moving and profound listening experience the listener will not forget. It is highly recommended to all lovers of adventurous ambient music and deserves to be a classic!"
~ Dodds Wiley / ambient.us

"Fans of Toronto electronic artists dreamSTATE will no doubt be thrilled by the release of PASSAGE, a series of soundscapes specially created for an installation held in Goderich, Ontario. Inspired by the poetry of Lynn Harrigan from her collection "Moon Sea Crossing", PASSAGE tells the story of Aina, an Irish immigrant who settles in Huron District during the 1840s. Her life during this time is filled with hardship and turmoil, ultimately resulting in a mental breakdown which leads to her being confined in the Huron District Gaol where her mental state further declines. Through a masterful creation of sound and environment, dreamSTATE is able to draw the listener into Aina's plight and brings her story to life in a powerful and haunting manner. ... As brilliant as it is emotional, PASSAGE is a beautiful work by one of Toronto's premier electronic acts. Many lesser talents would find themselves lost in such a dark subject matter, but dreamSTATE are able to convey the scene, the situation and the emotions felt in a succinct and powerful way. A testimony to their sophistication and artistry, PASSAGE is sure to become a classic of the genre."
~ rik maclean / Ambient Visions

"dreamSTATE’s music, highly impressionistic, doesn’t attempt to make real the literary metaphors upon which they base this recording, but instead opt for “tone poems” reflecting/refracting distance, longing, tribulation. ... Patently well-done, particularly in the origination of sound structures that are intentionally minimal when necessary, the drones indeed becoming imagistic phenomena, Passage’s sound fairly congeals the oxygen around you into shadows and fog."
~ Darren Bergstein / e/i magazine

"I was just discussing with someone the other day the difference between average ambient music and great ambient music. It is difficult to describe the difference, but very easy to hear it. I reviewed a couple of so-so CDs before putting "Passage" in the player, and the superior quality was evident from the opening notes. Serene, smooth, and cool, this is first-class ambient through and through. Right now the birds are chirping on “Clearing” as a gentle rhythm chugs slowly by. The balance between simplicity and complexity is perfect. The music evolves seemingly with ease, yet you can hear the thought behind it and the craft that went into it. Detailed liner notes explain the story behind the music, which was created for a multimedia event in Ontario. The dark subject matter is apparent in tracks like “Fall” and “Captive,” both of which beautifully capture the mood they seek to emulate, the latter particularly haunting as dark choirs wail in the background. By far the brightest and prettiest track is “Watershed,” which is reenacted at the disc’s closing in “Watershed Reprise,” signifying hope at the end of the dark journey. Highly recommended."
~ Phil Derby / Electroambient Space

"Evaluating "Passage" as an ambient recording is easy. This is an excellent CD, provided you enjoy this genre as a textural experience, comprised of ethereal and glowing spacemusic-like washes as well as darker drone-style ambient soundscapes (with the exception of "Clearing"). The technical quality is flawless and the choice (by Moore and Todd) to separate the tracks with a few seconds of silence does not detract from the overall cohesive impact of the entire album. However, that said, the true power of this CD comes from integrating the "story" with the music, where you, the listener, immerse yourself in Aina's tale (she is the lead character) and allow the recording to walk you through her tragedy as well as (hopefully) her triumphant crawl from the abyss. It is within this context that "Passage" elevates itself from being merely a good recording to being an important artistic statement. I highly recommend this album in either regard."
~ Bill Binkelman / Wind and Wire

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BETWEEN REALITIES

"BETWEEN REALITIES consists of a one-hour slice from a soundscape installation entitled waveforms that ran continuously for eight months in 1996 and 1997 at The H5 Project holographic gallery in Toronto. Created using three MiniDisk players on shuffle and loop modes, the sounds produced by dreamSTATE for this installation were pure, deep ambience as originally defined by pioneer Brian Eno: Music that merges with the surroundings to create a different listening experience with every listen. And since it was recorded using an open microphone, sounds from the street and gallery space hum through the mix and merge with the sounds in the listener's environment, blurring the line between realities - just as the title suggests."
~ Greg Clow / Chart Magazine / Feedback Monitor

"A little over an hour long, dreamSTATE have come up with one of the finest examples of ambient music this year. In effect, this is one long soundscape in the tradition of David Parsons (Yatra, Himalaya), Steve Roach (any of the longer later solo works), and possibly old man Eno (Discreet Music). Having said this, let me say that this is as good as any of these recordings, and taken from a live, long running installation. ... This will appeal to a lot of ambient fans and no doubt, space music listeners. No dramatics, no groove, no discernible melody. Just classic ambience. Me, I love it."
~ Hans Stoeve / Power Spot

"BETWEEN REALITIES is definitive ambient music. By that I mean it can be used to literally define the term. ... Highly recommended for ambient and, in my view, space music fans everywhere."
~ Bill Binkleman / Wind & Wire

"Soft electronic washes phase in and out in an ever-changing state of ebb and flow. Totally beatless and smooth, the lush chords swirl mistily, merging and remerging into different billowing configurations. Trickling water sounds run through several passages, as do occasional waves of rippling electro-distortion. It translates into a dreamy hour-long listen for your own environs."
~ David J. Opdyke / AmbiEntrance

Foglands

This 2007 atmospheric collection on the Italian Umbra label includes dreamSTATE's Fogbound, a previously unreleased
fourteen minute deep ambient soundscape, along with other moody musical mysteries by Oophoi (the label's founder),
Seren Ffordd, Darkend Soul, Mathias Grassow, Netherworld and Thomas Weiss.

"dreamSTATE deliver “Fogbound”, a lengthy dreamy drift of soaring cinematic strings and soft swirling swells...
Fans of all things drone and ambient and dark ambient and black ambient and drifting and dreamlike,
will definitely fall under the soporific spell of Foglands. Packaged in an oversized full plastic sleeve,
with an oversized card, full color image on one side and liner notes on the other.
LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, each disc hand numbered." ~ Aquarius Records

PiNG AMBiENCE 3

dreamSTATE's Clearing is included in this ambient-guitar oriented collection compiled by Sylken's Eric Hopper.

Thirteen diverse soundscapes are offered by eight artists from the Toronto ambient scene: Aidan Baker (Nadja/ARC),
Joe G (Styrohead), Eric Hopper (Sylken), Scott M2 (dreamSTATE), Phil Ogison (TDITD), Matthew Poulakakis (Solipsystem),
Paul Royes (cybertarist), Arnold Sprogis (Ambient TV) plus Vancouver's Terry O'Brien (Anomalous Disturbances)
and several of THE AMBiENT PiNG's friends from the USA: Matt Borghi (Portland OR), Michael Diamond (San Rafael CA),
Mark Mahoney (The Amaranth Signal / Knoxville TN) and Stuart White (Diatonis / Los Angeles CA).

"Quite choice right across the board, this bevy of String Things makes you believe in the guitar’s recuperative powers all over again,
shucked of ego, immersed in contexts emotive and ameliorating. Ambience for “the masses” doesn’t come much more amassed than this."
~ Darren Bergstein / e/i magazine

Fluidities by Jonathan Hughes and Friends

Jonathan Hughes' double CD Fluidities contains Molten a new previously unreleased
dreamSTATE track created just for this special project. Here's the details from the Foundry Label website:

"Jonathan Hughes' new album Fluidities is not your usual double CD, but rather an open ended project
designed to generate many unique musical collaborations. The tracks on these two discs
were designed so that any track on one CD could be combined with any track from the other CD
to create a hybrid piece. In fact any two tracks on Fluidities can be played together to create
new composite tracks that are, in effect, virtual collaborations between artists
who may have never recorded together.

For listeners with access to only one CD player Fluidities is still a complete listening experience;
each piece functions well as a self contained composition and the two discs contain more
than two hours of music. For those with two CD players 726 minutes (over twelve hours)
of unique music can be created from the 121 possible combinations of tracks.

Fluidities features eleven tracks by Jonathan Hughes (including collaborations with M. Bentley,
Hussalonia, Naryan Padmanabha, and David Mussen) as well as eleven tracks by some of the
most prominent names in the electronic music scene, including Tetsu Inoue, Ian Boddy,
High Skies (Mat Jarvis), Saul Stokes, Susanne Brokesch, ATOI/Seofon, dreamSTATE,
Interstitial, Jussi & Jaana Väisänen, Dean Santomieri and Michael Bentley/eM."

"Jonathan Hughes has realized a very unique vision with Fluidities. While the individual tracks are minimal
and sparse ambient excursions, the possibilities explode when the tracks are combined with each other
and the sonic experience becomes an exercise in close listening. Everything is possible, nothing is true
with this one release. I randomize again and it is a completely different record. You must explore."
~ Mark Teppo / Igloo Magazine

PiNG AMBiENCE 2

There's four dreamSTATE-related tracks on the second PiNG AMBiENCE compilation CD:

dreamSTATE's primary contribution to this ambient collection (compiled by Sylken's Eric Hopper) is a collaboration
with multi-talented vocal sound artist/dancer/choreographer Susanna Hood titled Phases of the Moon.

Other new dreamSTATE-related tracks on this collection are: Mara's Dream by earotica
(dreamSTATE's Scott M2 working with rik maclean from Mara's Torment)
consume by URM (Jamie Todd's solo soundscape project)
and The Light Unseen by Sylken (a track co-created with Scott M2).

Other fine ambient artists featured on the compilation are: Alpha Wave Movement,
Sylken, Paul Royes, Anomalous Disturbances, Solipsystem, karmafarm,
Aidan Baker, Styrohead, Sara Ayers and James Johnson.

"PiNG AMBiENCE 2 is an excellent collection proving that there are an incredible number of artists
creating beautiful music worth discovering for yourself. A wonderful introduction to a variety of talents
and a testimony to the community that has developed around the AMBiENT PiNG."
~ rik maclean / Ambient Visions

PiNG AMBiENCE

dreamSTATE's previously out-of-print Sunspot Interference is woven into this
continuous mix compilation of music from AMBiENT PiNG performers.

THE AMBiENT PiNG, BTW, is the weekly Toronto live ambient/chill/experimental
music event which dreamSTATE has been organizing since January 2000.
Read an extensive interview with Jamie, Scott M2 and Rich Baker (who curated this CD)
at the ping things website to learn more about THE AMBiENT PiNG.

Among the excellent artists included in the mix are a variety of musicians who
dreamSTATE has performed with, such as cheryl o, Andrew Aldridge,
Eric Hopper (Sylken), Arnold Sprogis (Ambient-TV), Wally Jericho and Pholde.
This is a great introduction for anyone who's been curious about PiNG.

LINGER (Remastered Version) by James Johnson

The re-mastered re-release of James Johnson's Linger CD includes Twilight Impressions,
a previously un-released track from James Johnson's 2002 live collaborative
AMBiENT PiNG performance with dreamSTATE and Wally Jericho. The CD is a lingering journey
through space and time that drifts in and out of the surreal. Recorded during live performances
at The Ambient Ping and sound:escape, Linger chronicals the live sound of James Johnson's
electronic textures and shifting soundscapes.

"I'm glad to see this surface--I've always felt it to be one of Johnson's best and most memorable discs. Linger has changed slightly with its reissue--the track Floating and Dreaming has been omitted to allow the release of the new Twilight Impressions ... I was saddened to see the former go, but the new track is just as interesting and beautiful (as well as a collaboration with Toronto's dreamSTATE).... which shifts the tone considerably from the natural to a more synthetic and spaced-out environment. Fans of the driftier selections in the Silent Records catalog (for example, The Heavenly Music Corporation's excellent Anechoic) will find much to enjoy here as impressively resonant synth slices dazzlingly meld with Johnson's echoed synth (similar to that heard on Minimum). This track was created more recently than the rest of Linger, and it shows. It fits comfortably with the rest of the album: its pleasures are evident and I'm glad to see it released. Eventually, the track morphs down to a harmonic driftscape as guitar tones and subdued vocalizations push the track through zones of light and opacity."
~ Brian Bieniowski / The Ambient Review

Harmony with Ambience

This ambient compilation from Japanese label Windfarm features a variety
of international ambient artists. The dreamSTATE track they chose is an excerpt
from BETWEEN REALITIES as there is a water theme underlying the selections. The lineup is:
James Johnson (zeromusic/Hypnos), Pule (Windfarm), Edward Larry Gordon (a.k.a. Laraaji),
Jussi Väisänen Rabbi Abulafia (Windfarm), Isomorph (Isomorphmusic), dreamSTATE (e-SPACE),
Kristian Peters (tomlab), Jonathan Hughes (The Foundry, Hypnos) and Richard Bone (quirkwork).

"The high quality of all the tracks, taken along with its diversity of sound and talent make Harmony with Ambience
a hard package to resist. Even the cover art--a simple zen-like layout of washed-out organics--maintains the theme
and professional look of the music within. I give this compilation my highest rating--all fans of translucent soundscaping
will surely be pleased with Harmony of Ambience's multitude of pleasures."
~ Brian Bieniowski / The Ambient Review

ambient.02@hyperreal

The Storm Within, a live track recorded with cellist cheryl o appears on CD for the first time in this double CD set
featuring music by Stephen Philips, Forrest Fang, Numina, Craig Padilla, Falling You, Ashera and many other fine ambient artists.
This is the 2nd volume of ambient tracks by members of the Hyperreal Ambient List (chosen through an extensive voting process).

"Track 4 is a tune by one of my favorite artists of all time, dreamSTATE. For this song, which was recorded live
at the famous Ambient Ping, dreamSTATE teamed up with cheryl o. This results in a very beautiful slightly
chaotic-sounding song of immense beauty (though of course, I might be a bit biased ;).
It's a shame that this only lasts for 5 minutes, I would've loved to hear more of this."
~ Stefan Koopmanschap / Electronic Music World

AMBIENT LANDSCAPES 2

Alpha Waves, a previously unreleased section from dreamSTATE's ambient installation waveforms,
is now available exclusively on Ambient Landscapes 2 - Passage To Chill from Dark Duck Records.
This excellent ambient music compilation also features tracks from James Johnson,
Subspace (Jonathan Hughes), Stephen Philips, Twine, Deep Chill Network, Allan Imberg and others.

"The year's first great ambient compilation ... Ambient Landscapes 2 is absolutely
an essential recording for listeners of the genre. Highly recommended"
~ Bill Binkelman / Wind & Wire.

Floating and Dreaming, a twelve minute track recorded with deep ambient artist James Johnson,
appears exclusively on his CD Linger on the Space For Music virtual label. This CD also features tracks James recorded live
at THE AMBiENT PiNG and during his sound:escape live radio broadcast during his sojourn in Toronto in August 2000.

"The favorable comparisons with pioneers like Eno continue. Johnson's music is so soft and delicate, yet dramatic and rich with life. ...
Floating and Dreaming is a live studio piece, which includes the members of dreamSTATE, recorded in their Toronto studio.
The title of this one pretty much sums up the excellent dreamy, floating ambience. Formless waves of sound
waft easily into the night air ... Simply excellent."
~ Phil Derby / Sequences Magazine

White Winter Moon, recorded by dreamSTATE the night of the rare eclipse of the
full moon on the Winter Solstice, December 22nd, 1999, appears exclusively on this
double CD compilation of tracks by 24 members of the hyperreal ambient mailing list.

Disc One features ambient-groove oriented works by EPD, Universal Selector,
Excelsior, Ambient Temple Of The Imagination, Tonelab, Spirit Oscillator and others.

Disc Two features ambient soundscapes with tracks by dreamSTATE, Forest Fang,
Deep Chill Network, Michael Hillborg, Subspace, DXM, Kendall Jackman and others.

"This cyber-democratically-assembled collection is imbued with the combined effect of collective enthusiasm
and burgeoning new talents ... ambient01@hyperreal receives a special 9.3 rating for its cyber-ambient-communal
importance as well as for the fresh blood it provides."
~ David J Opdyke / AmbiEntrance

The Stonecrest Visitation, an exclusive dark ambient live recording from dreamSTATE's
October 24, 1998 soundscape performance at We'ave, Toronto, is available on
the limited edition dark electronics compilation Infinity Paradox from Fusion Audio recordings.

The press release describes the CD as "beatless atmospheres followed by experimental techno, melodic ambience
juxtaposed by relentless noise and the classical industrial sound countered by pulsing EBM."
Infinity Paradox also includes tracks by Sara Ayers, Cazzodio, Sult, Baal, Bxg Cxty Xrchxstrx,
Ene, Disaster Preparedness, Suspicion Breeds Confidence and others...

"The artists presented here display a lot of talent and manage to make their music quite accessible.
Ene's track, Sult's "This pussy has teeth" or "The Stonecrest Visitation" from dreamSTATE are extremely enjoyable,
and show that the new generation of american noise/industrial doesn't fear the comparison with older bands.
"Infinity Paradox" is an industrial noise sampler like very few, managing to wander in various styles without losing its coherence."
~ Nicolas Chevreux / Recycle Your Ears

DEPROGRAMMING MUSIC

~ Sunspot Interference, a dreamSTATE dark ambient improvisation appears on DEPROGRAMMING MUSIC (sacred noise recordings) -
an international noise/ambient/experimental compilation CD featuring exclusive tracks by: Merzbow, Mindspawn,
Lefthandeddecision, John Wiese, Gruntsplatter, Ovum, Mason Jones, Amber Ayslum, Nothing, Robot Vs. Rabbit,
Anapthergal, Yamaakago, Mag Wheels, Ashrae Fax and Cold Electric Fire.

"Sunspot interference by dreamSTATE seduces us with some very beautifully composed abysmal string compositions that
bend with radiant harmony. This is absolutely one of my favorites alone, wanting me to seek out more from this artist."
~ seven

On Saturday May 13th, 2000, a fireworks warehouse in Enschede, The Netherlands exploded in two big bangs,
blasting away the surrounding houses. 18 people died including courageous firemen and 944 people were injured.
This is a special project to help the people of Enschede. All proceeds of this CD's sales will be donated
to one of the aid funds for the victims of this awful explosion.

Includes tracks by dreamSTATE (Adrift In The City), TearSong, TranceVersions, jonas lindgren, Ganzfeld, CRELM,
LoveCraft's Adjectives, Kaden, Aois-Dubh, ronny engmann's project hyrmnll, OpenRoad, Xylox and Liquid Pain.

"a fantastic selection of musicians and tracks"
~ William Moses / Electronic BB