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Kit Watkins - Thought Tones Volume 2 ( 92 ^ 143mb)
Kit Watkins was born to a couple of classical piano teachers in 1953 in Virginia, not surprisingly he studied piano at home from ages 5 through 13. During his teen years, Kit was drawn to rock music and click for larger became a driving force behind a series of local bands, playing organ, synthesizer, and flute, as well as singing lead. By age 18, he was discovering his own writing abilities. He soon joined up with the band Happy The Man (HTM) which was forming at the local university. It was with HTM that Kit honed his skills in composing, performing, arranging, and producing. During its six years, the band recorded five albums, including two produced by Ken Scott and released on Arista Records. In 1979, with HTM unable to get a new record controct Kit got an invitation to join the British band Camel , dissatisfied with his opportunities in the band he left 1 year later, though he did join them on several tours of the UK, Europe, and Japan from 1980 through 1982.
In the early '80s, Watkins began building his own home studio and produced consistently inviting music that draws on his first-rate keyboard skills and his keen ear for sonic detail. Kit’s solo career began in 1980 with the self-produced album Labyrinth, released on his own Azimuth Records label. The album won him 5th place in Keyboard magazine’s Annual Readers’ Poll Awards for keyboard album. He recorded and performed with drummer/percussionist Coco Roussel during this period. During the 80s, Kit continued to produce solo and collaborative albums, some click for largerreleased on his own label, while others were picked up by larger independent labels. In the early 90s, Kit formed a new label, Linden Music, which released a number of his new ambient recordings, as well as CDs by Robert Rich, Jeff Greinke, David Borden, and others. When in 96 distribution fell away the label fell too. Unsurprisingly Kit has been a great fan of the internet as artists like him get a chance being heard with all the distribution models available now.
In 2001, Kit performed a milestone concert in Philadelphia for The Gatherings series, hosted by Chuck van Zyl of Star’s End Ambient click for largerRadio. It was Kit’s first performance in 20 years, and his first ever as a solo artist in a new genre. In preparation for this concert, Kit began learning and using an electronic wind instrument as the focal point of his stage performance. He finds this instrument far more expressive and liberating than electronic keyboards, especially for melody and solo work. The Gathering CDs/DVD are available at the Kit Watkins shop.
Kit Watkins is continuing to record and release new works from his private studio in Brattleboro, Vermont.The music of Kit Watkins can be heard on-line at KitWatkins.com, as well as on such broadcast radio shows as Hearts of Space, Star’s End, and Echoes. Kit Watkins.Com lots of streamed music and even free downloads from his discography..good website well worth a visit
The second volume in Kit Watkins's Thought Tones series continues the exploration of mysterious abstract soundscapes intended to assist "creative thinking, contemplation, imagination, and other forms of direct and indirect perception." .
01 - Tone 6 (16:19)
02 - Tone 7 (12:09)
03 - Tone 8 (13:47)
04 - Tone 9 (11:47)
05 - Tone 10 (13:15)
Thoughtone 1 -(128k quality) download is available for free at Watkins website
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VA - A Brief History of Ambient 1 1 (1973-1993) (93 ^ 137mb)
The Virgin Ambient Series was a series of albums released on the UK Virgin Records label between 1993 and 1997. A Brief History of Ambient was the first one and it's success carried the 24 albums that were released in the series, 13 of which compilations. Obviously this is not a complete history by any means , but Virgin trying to prove they were into ambient way back when the term didnt even exist..That said as an ambient compilation it's rather diverse, which is a good thing, ambient isnt necessarily meditation music.... Well you can pick and choose after you got it all..for free
01 - Harold Budd - Flowered Knife Shadows (7:05)
02 - Tangerine Dream - Thru Metamorphic Rock (Edit) (9:46)
03 - Robert Fripp / Brian Eno - Evening Star (7:30)
04 - Amorphous Androgynous - Mountain Goat (4:28)
05 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Sea Of Vapours (3:49)
06 - Hawkwind - The Forge Of Vulcan (3:01)
07 - Killing Joke - Requiem (A Floating Leaf Always Reaches The Sea Dub Mix) (10:35)
08 - Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent) (4:11)
09 - Richard Horowitz - Marnia's Tent (2:58)
10 - Irmin Schmidt & Bruno Spoerri - Rapido De Noir (6:32)
11 - Ashra - Kazoo (5:36)
12 - Harold Budd & Brian Eno - Their Memories (2:38)
13 - Grid - Leave Your Body (4:46)
14 - Christopher Franke - Electric Becomes Eclectic (3:39)
VA - A Brief History Of Ambient 1 2 ( 93 ^ 144mb)
15 - Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (Edit) (10:25)
16 - Jon Hassell & Brian Eno - Delta Rain Dream (3:20)
17 - William Orbit - The Monkey King (4:49)
18 - Gong - Castle In The Clouds (1:02)
19 - Hawkwind - Lifeform (1:40)
20 - Laraaji - The Dance #2 (9:04)
21 - Sheila Chandra - Sacred Stones (5:26)
22 - Michael Brook - Earth Floor (4:44)
23 - Faust - Läuft, Heisst Das Es Läuft Oder Es Kommt Bald...Läuft (3:19)
24 - Jon Hassell - Gift Of Fire (4:41)
25 - Material - The End Of Words (3:46)
26 - Edgar Froese - Panorphelia (9:35)
27 - Roger Eno - Voices (2:15)
28 - Holger Czukay - Träum Mal Weider (7:21)
29 - David Sylvian - Home (4:14)
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