Lane, Brannan

Artist: Brannan Lane
P: 2003
As much as I love full-length solo albums, there is always a different, special feeling when I encounter the collaborative work of a favorite artist. It gives an artist previously familiar to the listener a chance to stretch out and try new ideas and sounds--often freshening that artist's sound considerably in the process. Ambient music collaborations are common, thankfully, and often represent the best albums the genre has to offer. While I certainly don't believe Anthony Wright's musical project Ashera needs any sound freshening, I was particularly interested to see what regions he'd end up in throughout his first collaboration with the prolific Brannan Lane, Sextant. Ashera's sound occupies a narrow (though impressively expressive and beautiful) niche in ambient. Lane himself is something of a stylistic chameleon, creating varied works in each of the ambient sub-genres, though never with a voice that one can consider Lane's own. Just where would a collaboration between these two go, and would it be a complimentary journey?

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Artist: Brannan Lane
P: 1999
You drift along through space with this sometimes pulsating, but most of the time reverbed synthesizer soundscapes.

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Artist: Brannan Lane
P: 2000
Deep caves with long dark ambient sounds.

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Artist: Vidna Obamana, Brannan Lane,
Robert Carty, Zero Ohms u.a.
P: 1997
This is the projekt of ambient collaborations with all new tracks by the listed artists.

Artist: Zero Ohms + Brannan Lane
P: 2002
Ambientmix of wind-instruments and synthesizer with a natural environment in the background.
Zero Ohms: flute, bass flute, wind-controlled synthesizer, bass bamboo flute, native American flute, Napali flute, Thaipii-joom gourd flute, bansuri, & field recordings
Brannan Lane: synths, beanpods, shakers, rattles, djembe, rainstick, processing & mastering
Gordon Rhyne: overtone voice

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