Attached is part of a review from Morpheus Music. Thanks to Paul for contributing the review:

“The mood of Wanderlust is at times one of dramatic expanse - the thick beds of sound suggestive of immense vistas and open skies. In other places the mood darkens and Terraambient wanders into shadowy freeform zones of mystery. The general pace of the album is ponderous, unhurried - the bulk of the tracks welling up gradually around beatless introductions, the percussion arriving well along into the music. The final two recordings are beatless - the concluding piece featuring some gentle piano and environmental recordings evoking visions of the sun emerging after rainfall - a very attractive piece and the most overtly melodic of the suite.”

For the full review, please visit their website HERE.

This past week SPACEMUSIC.nl (Rotterdam, NL), hosted by TC, did a feature on the new release. TC’s podcast features ambient, chill and electroambient music from around the globe. His SENSEO SUNDAY series featured music from Wanderlust this past weekend, including a live video from his studio.

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“Shipped to us by Spotted Peccary, the new album by Terra Ambient has it’s own tone, it’s own vibe, it’s own and true magic. Have to say, took a second listening session before we got into the right stream sort of speak…. That’s what the daily circumstances do to us. Start. First of all, never heard a fade-in like the first track of this album… from zero decibels to a room filled with Terra Ambient in couple of minutes. The mix is golden. The mood is just right for starting your day as well as ending is and go to bed. Jeff has done a fantastic job with this ‘layered’ production: there’s so much to discover each time you’ll hear this album. It seems it never stops to develop, simply fantastic!. Terra Ambient is Jeff Kowal. Jeff has been an active musician for over 15 years. Both formally trained and self-taught, Jeff’s musical interests and influences span a wide spectrum of cultures. This crossover of electronic, ethnic, acoustic and experimental sounds has become the foundation of his work. Terra Ambient’s award-winning work can be heard in solo projects, as well as in collaborations with other artists, commercial and independent movie score, and gallery installations.”

For more info on this excellent podcast, check it out here.

This sunday, wanderlust will be featured on syndicated radio program HEARTS OF SPACE. Hearts of Space, hosted by Stephen Hill, has been a benchmark in Ambient / Space / New Age music since the 80s. What used to be the premiere space music label is now a syndicated radio show and online subscription radio program. Go to HEARTS OF SPACE to find a radio station close to you, or pay to listen on their website, this sunday and hear music from Wanderlust, as well as from Lotuspike labelmate Darshan Ambient. Be sure to tune in!

Chuck Van Zyl, host of Star’s End on WXPN (phila.) wrote a recent review of Wanderlust:

“Recording under the name Terra Ambient soundscape artist Jeff Kowal brings together his passion for Ambient and World Music in an impressionistic synthesis of texture, sound and atmosphere. The CD title Wanderlust (51′26″) epitomizes his drift between and across genres and disciplines. Kowal’s fascinating musical realm is part digital, part primordial, and lies amidst his native flutes and tribal drums and the samplers and synthesizers he manipulates and programs to produce what seems like a lost continent of sound. The more energetic sections are propelled by percussion riffs that snake through each piece - stiffening like a spine. This area of Kowal’s music is more about cycles than bars and measures. There are also many passages of ethereal bliss where reverberant pads move like slow clouds on the horizon and glowing tones flex and fade off into the hum of the universe. Composing music that is informed by molecular whispers in the blood yet still seems searching for a future; the work of Terra Ambient successfully joins technology and spirituality. Wanderlust does more than provide an atmosphere, this music provokes the imagination and gets to places we did not know were there.”
- Chuck van Zyl/STAR’S END 17 June 2009

Wanderlust will be featured on Star’s End on June 21st. Stars End runs from 1am to 6am (est). You can tune into the show by streaming the radio station HERE.

For all of you interested in purchasing WANDERLUST digitally, please note that there is an error in the distribution of the CD on iTunes and Rhapsody. Due to a communication error, only 6 of the 7 tracks are available for download from iTunes and Rhapsody. We are working to rectify the situation, but in the meantime, We recommend getting digital downloads from AMAZON.

Sorry for the inconvenience. I will update this as soon as we get the problem worked out. Please contact me with any questions.
Thanks!
Jeff

Ambient Visions is a great resource of information regarding ambient, meditative and electro ambient music. Edited by Michael Foster, Ambient Visions includes reviews, links, interviews and artists features. This month, Michael tipped his hat to Wanderlust with a “play of the week” nod. For more information, go to: AMBIENT VISIONS.

Bert Strolenberg’s review site, Sonic Immersion, just did a review of Wanderlust, giving it 4 out of 4 stars. Below is a portion of the review:

“In more than one way, the music on it has something of a grand design, featuring some sort of soundtrack with both expansive as miniature sound excursions. The music, which has a great entrance with the powerful “Myth”, is given all the space to slowly build into subtlety (”Visionquest”) or expansiveness.”

To read the full review, please go to the FULL REVIEW PAGE.

Thank for the review, Bert.

Hi all. Well the CD is out and up on iTunes and it’s already getting some airplay. This week, John Diliberto will feature some tracks from the new CD on his radio program, ECHOES.

Echoes is a daily two-hour music soundscape, distributed by Public Radio International and broadcast on 130 radio stations from Maine to California. With host John Diliberto, a writer for Billboard, Pulse and other magazines, Echoes brings together a wide array of styles, from acoustic to electronic, jazz to space music, the avant-garde to rock. Echoes is a sound that is cross-cultural and trans-millennial, merging cultures and forms, technology and tradition, the ancient past and the possible future.

Check the site to see if there is a radio station in your area to listen to the show. Otherwise, you can listen by subscribing to the program online. Tune in tonight and Thursday night for great music from artists all around the globe and listen for tracks from Wanderlust during the second hour of both shows. Thanks for listening!

This month’s Lotuspike podcast, hosted by Dan Pipitone, features an exclusive sneak peak at the Wanderlust release. This month, Dan features the first track of the release,”myth”, at the end of the podcast. If your interested in the sound of Wanderlust, here’s your chance to check it out.

Subscribe to the Lotuspike podcast via iTunes

Get the link from the LOTUSPIKE website