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Voices from the Ethereal Forest

by Meg Bowles

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ambient_head
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ambient_head Can't really pick a fav track as they all shine. Nice job Meg! You've come a long way since those earliest releases. Listening to Voices right now. www.AmbientMusic-Radio.com
mysticwolf75
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mysticwolf75 Beautiful album! We were spoiled this year with 2 new albums from Meg Bowles. There has been a lot of time between her previous releases - Inner Space (1993), Solstice Dreams (1993), Blue Cosmos (1996), From the Dark Earth (1999), A Quiet Light (2011), The Shimmering Land (2013), Evensong (2018), Pilgrimage (2022), Voices From the Ethereal Forest (2022). I hope this is a sign we're going to hear much more from her!
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The Itzamna Collective Absolutely in love with Meg's music. Composition is the key.

Calm, serene waves lull you in to a soothe zone, before deep synths flow in & lock to a deeper state of consciousness.

Beautiful creations with a deep therapeutic love, the core magic of every piece of the moving puzzles that Meg constructs & then completes, infinite cycles back into the endless pools beyond space & time.

Alluring tenderness, yet a powerful pulsing & reflecting within the illusion of gravitational collapse <3
Paul Asbury Seaman
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Paul Asbury Seaman Bowles works in the gray area between space music and the softer ambience of new-age, moving on her last few albums more toward the latter. Rather than it compromising her art, she has reclaimed the genre, like flutist Sherry Finzer, bringing a heartfelt authenticity to a style that had become shopworn and predictable. Her liberal use of vocally-oriented plugins (Spitfire Audio’s Eric Whitacre Choir, Heavyocity’s Vocalise, etc.) won’t be for everyone, but is consistent with this album’s theme. Favorite track: Slow Dance Under a Red Moon.
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Forests are ambient communities of textures, sounds, and lifeforms, all of which interact in a miraculous web, vibrating and dancing with the elemental forces of nature. They sustain life for the planet, bear silent witness to history, and form containing spaces which can attract and hold the emotional energies of all sentient beings, from fear and grief all the way to delight and awe. Forests are also storytellers. When immersed in the woods, we also become woven into a majestic yet intimate tapestry of light and shadow, becoming part of the story.

When I was a child, I would often imagine that I could hear the trees sing after a deep, cleansing rain. There were no words, simply the sense of an emerging cluster of sound, radiating what I imagined to be relief and gratitude for the nourishing waters that fed their roots. The idea of a singing forest is what piqued my curiosity about integrating the human voice and especially vocal ensembles into ambient music in a way that honors the primacy of texture. Voices emerge slowly—often beginning before awareness—and then recede, much as the constantly shifting textures of the forest do, all creating an atmosphere of quiet, radiant timelessness.

This album invites the listener into a verdant, ambient oasis, where layers of subtle vocal textures form a living tapestry evoking the beauty and magic of forests past. Impressionistic and introspective, this music is also a tribute to the forests which—whether through natural aging, climate change, or destructive human interaction—no longer exist in this realm.

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released December 2, 2022

Composed and performed by Meg Bowles
Produced and mixed by Meg Bowles and Richard Price
Engineered and mastered by Richard Price, Candlewood Digital LLC,
Album artwork by Meg Bowles

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Classically trained composer-synthesist Meg Bowles has been well known for her ambient orchestral soundscapes for over 25 years.

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