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the sidereal cycle 4
The plans for what would become The Sidereal Cycle
took place without any input from me. I first found out
about the concept from
a post on the Altus blog.
As
soon as I read it I reached out to Mike (Carss,
AKA
Altus)
with a resounding, “Yes, please!” Fans of Free Floating
and ambient I’m sure will understand my enthusiasm.
Simply put, Mike Carss is a master of ambient music,
there can be no doubt about that. Of the ambient
artists that I listen to and love, I feel that Altus music is
the most ‘composed’. While much of it is decidedly
cinematic in structure, even the more minimal and
abstract pieces seem to have deeper structures and
themes that resonate throughout.
With its focus on thematic elements, the music of Altus is
also decidedly painterly in that the melodies and
structures help to draw mental images, especially since
each release usually contains a specific topical
reference (time, sleep, fire, water, etc.).
And so it is fitting that Altus turns his hand once again to
the grand theme of time and the seasons with The
Sidereal Cycle.
Every time I try to write about an Altus release, I feel that
I have already used up all of my superlatives on his last
one. It’s an experience that has been most acute as I
have been helping to steer The Sidereal Cycle over the
past year.
I believe that Mike has done it once again and gone to
the deep well of his creativity and pulled up a cool and
refreshing draught of entrancing and rich ambient art.
This final piece of The Sidereal Cycle, Virgo, uses
medieval composer Thomas Tallis’s
Spem In Alium
as a
starting point in an impressionistic re-imagining. Gentle,
hanging chords are topped by plucked strings to create
a heavenly ambience worthy of Tallis’s sacred
aspirations.
You now have all four compositions of The Sidereal
Cycle and I fervently recommend that you take the
time to listen to them in sequence and follow Altus on
this musical journey through the year.
Brad Ross-MacLeod
Vancouver, WA
March 2013
http://freefloatingmusic.com
1. virgo
All instruments and sounds by Altus (Mike Carss)
Based on
Spem in Alium
by Thomas Tallis
Cover design by Brad Ross-MacLeod
Photography by
Jennifer Nish
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The Sidereal Cycle is a four-part suite of long-form
ambient works created by Altus to reflect the earth’s
annual cycles as we make our way around the sun each
year.
Each release is set to coincide with the Solstices and
Equinoxes, beginning with the summer solstice of 2012.
The title of each track pays homage to dominant
constellations in the northern sky during each of the
seasons.
the sidereal cycle 4
altus
Released March 2013 by Free Floating Music
ffm•019
Releases:
The Sidereal Cycle 1 (Cygnus)
The Sidereal Cycle 2 (Andromeda)
The Sidereal Cycle 3 (Orion)
The Sidereal Cycle 4 (Virgo)
http://altusmusic.ca
July 2012
September 2012
December 2012
March 2013
Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-
NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-
ND 3.0 License.
http://freefloatingmusic.com

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