Alpha Wave Movement

Artist: Alpha Wave Movement & Jim Cole
P: 2006
Bislama is the first collaboration between the unlikely duo of Alpha Wave Movement (aka synthesist Gregory Kyryluk) and overtone singer Jim Cole (of Spectral Voices). On paper this album seems like an odd match; the pairing of an electronic musician steeped in modern rhythms with a vocalist disciplined in the enigmatic practice of throat singing. With this wonderful release, the pair successfully combine their talents into something more than each is capable of on their own.   Theoretically, the influence of Bislama has been the culture and music of Micronesia. The music and mood absolutely reflect this through Kyryluk's imaginative use of sounds and tones both electronically manipulated and synthetic in origin along with Cole's wonderous singing and chanting. Ceremonial bells ring, exotic percussion rumble, gamelan rhythms cycle, all beneath a varying layer of floating synth pads and harmonic vocal improvisations. But the idea of this album is deeper than its cultural sources. Bislama is a metamorphasis of talent, sound and music derived through collaboration and improvisation. The two have created an album stylistically unique and complexly diverse.

Artist: Alpha Wave Movement
P: 2002
The CD is both peaceful and moving and is full of interesting themes and melodies, a great collection of tracks in the tradition of classic space music. Gregory Kyryluk has turned out a pair of eminently listenable pieces that neatly combine spacemusic, chill, and solid electronic music.
A Distant Signal is the mellower of the two, a comfotable ride through space made funky with smooth beats laid under weightless synth pads and melodies laden with velvety hooks. It glides back and forth between soothing drifts and impulse-drive sequencer moments.
Standout tracks include "A Place of Peace", which epitomizes the album's drift-to-groove style, and the gentle "Portal Full of Stars" which ushers in the final few tracks of the album, where AWM gives the listener a dose of suspended-animation chill-out.

Artist: Alpha Wave Movement
P: 2014
New release mix of tribal Steve Roach and ambient Thom Brennan/Robert Rich.

Artist: Alpha Wave Movement
P: 2013
On an irregular basis, I absolutely love to listen to some sophisticated ambient music in the final hours of the day or in early night time. It gives an opportunity to reflect a bit on things and put the mind to rest before turning to bed. The following recording is most suitable for such occasions.
"Architexture of Silence", the 18th release by Alpha Wave Movement, sees the return of composer Gregory Kyryluk using a very minimal hardware (0% software synthesis) setup and no computer-based sequencing whatsoever. He actually relied on an old-school hardware sequencer as a sketch pad while carefully shaping and sculpting the five gentle movements (all ranging between 10 and 14 minutes in length) that would end up as this full-length cosmic album.
The freeform and neatly structured outcome is subtle and tranquil, taking on slow turns and shapes as it progresses in a fluid, transparent tapestry of soft shimmering and slow morphing (drone)textures. It’s not exactly meditative, but harmonic with a certain soothing, minimal current running underneath.
I recommend listening to "Architexture of Silence" with a good pair of headphones and at low volume to get the full aural pleasure.

Bert Strolenberg, Sonic Immersion

Artist: Alpha Wave Movement
P: 2005
The CD is a highly energetic workout of kinetic sequencer passages, percussion and synth solos. Beyond Silence draws from the old and new to create a CD many listeners will enjoy. There are of course nods to the classic emusic composers as affinity for cosmic rock. “The Zen Machine” is a very catchy piece with a three-pronged attack of great sequencing, cool synth leads, and infectious beats. It has a similar feel to stronger works by Tangerine Dream around the time of Le Parc, pop-length tunes that paint enjoyable pictures with sound. A low pulsing synth starts “Farewell Voyager” planted firmly in the early 80s sound of both TD and Jean-Michel Jarre. And “Further Out” is reminiscent of Jonn Serrie’s early space music.
Sometimes it sounds like Waveshape. “Kinetic Transfer” is an exciting, almost frantic number. Both in sound and in name, this reminds of an earlier Alpha Wave Movement release, Concept of Motion. There is also more than a little nod to Steve Roach’s Stormwarning.
In marked contrast, “Echoes” has a gentle feel, building at just the right pace.

Artist: Alpha Wave Movement
P: 2017
The sky, clouds and their ceaseless dichotomy of colors and patterns helped inspire the music for this release. Synthetic atmospheres and rhythmic dialog depict the inherent dynamic splendor of inspiration......
Inspired by the plethora of beauty up above our heads as we walk beyond the confines of the concrete, glass and steel into this dome of sunlit blue. Electronic music quiet and reflective like images of a deep cerulean cirrus laden sky or as ominously nebulous as a approaching supercell.

Artist: Alpha Wave Movement
P: 1998
"Concept of Motion" finds Kyryluk exploring a wide range of styles.
The album starts with a great upbeat grabber, "Linear Perspective." The sequencers come fast and furious, staccato style. The synth bass, the arrangement, everything on this song is really fun. There is so much going on that it's a wonder it doesn't end up a chaotic mess, but somehow it succeeds very well. The energy is infectious.
Though "Linear Perspectives" is very good, my favorite songs on "Concept of Motion" are the slower, floating pieces. "Across the Axis" is a good mid-tempo piece with some cool sound effects.
"Ocean of Dreams" is a very interesting selection, with sudden key changes and simple, effective piano leads that remind me of Klaus Schulze. This song starts in a floating frame of mind, but like most of the album, succumbs to a fair amount of percussion.
At its heart, "Concept of Motion" is a expression of constant activity, and it will be interesting to see where this musical motion finds the next Alpha Wave Movement release.

Here the last copy!

Artist: Alpha Wave Movement
P: 2010
Fusing inner & interstellar ambient teutonic musical elements into a harmonious tone capsule for the adventurous listener yearning for their next sonic enlightenment Ambient space and Post-Berlin school electronica. The release from Alpha Wave Movement is a two-part smooth, soaring collection of synthetic music with relaxing beats and twinkling sequences.
Ambient atmospheres support melodic progressions and optimistic themes - in places there are lead lines that are dynamic, improvisational affairs demanding the attention, in other places warm sequential patterns come to the fore. Long free-form passages of beatless meandering are interspersed among the more rhythmic material - expansive, galactic interludes serene, expectant. These occasionally morph imperceptibly into motion as cycling structures crystallise, the regularity of arpeggio forms building into multi-layered complexities and dispersing once more. Asian percussion metallics form ponderous muted beats among the more lively programmed grooves and there are some moments of hand drumming.
The latter part of the CD is without percussive beats; here the waves and washes of layered tone are given momentum via broad, clean sweeps and gleaming lattice works.

Artist: Alpha Wave Movement
P: 2003
On “Cosmology” we can hear almost everything EM has to offer, from ambient, through retro-sequences to melodically rhythmic stuff.
The first track “Prologue Sequence” is, as the title says, based on sequences. “Teutonic Voyage” is a composition only Kyryluk can create. It starts moody and after this great sequences and rhythms take over. This is absolutely top-EM. The same counts for “Sailing Orion” which is superb spacemusic: quiet, relaxing and with excellent sounds that surround an easy sequence. In the more melodically and rhythmic “Celestial Mechanics” and the loungy “Rendezvous” he proves not to pinpoint on only one style of EM. The spacesounds return in “Deep Outpost” and “Distant Edens”.
All tracks composed & recorded by Gregory Kyryluk
Track 7 with Jim Cole on Vox and Christopher Cameron on additional synths and rainstick.
Track 8 with Christopher Cameron Moog melodies, MS20 and ESQ-1.