For today's exclusive track premiere, I am featuring a piece from the second volume of music by a UK trio called Quiet Places, consisting of Dennis White, Charlie May, and Dave Gardner. Their debut release, appropriately titled Volume 1, showed up on my radar back in 2020 [has it really been that long?] by way of Ryan Griffin's meticulously curated A Strangely Isolated Place imprint, the output of which I consistently and hungrily consume. As is foreshadowed with the title, we are now gifted with Volume 2 of this group's creations, featuring four long-players, each taking up an entire side on this gorgeous marbled 2x12" release [the piece you are hearing today is not on the album, and is a digital-only special bonus track]. As I described the first volume three years ago, the swirling atmospheres in a haze-inducing daydream,  the humming synth pads with the layers built upon each one, and the kaleidoscope of sampled snippets are back again in Volume 2 to snatch me back from this reality and drop me into times when Boards of Canada, Global Communication and The Future Sound of London soundtracked my days. On their latest for ASIP, the trio once again command the sonic artistry and deep knowledge of the stylistic snapshots that are stitching up my memories into a cohesive whole. This is a welcome escape from the bombardment of the "usual", a future flashback into the past of the present, a twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop.

Volume Two

TRACK PREMIERE : Quiet Places - The Empty View

Just point yourself in the direction of your dreams.

Here are some original solo piano pieces...  some mixes from my podcast... some exclusive track premieres...  and some tracks from the albums I review on Headphone Commute... Enjoy!

Music from A Strangely Isolated Place + 9128.live.

Ambient & electronica music blog, mix series, record label and radio station. Est. 2008.

ES Waves – mixing realities since 2006. 

Latest Release:
ES Waves - Discontinuities, Subtle Discontinuities' [ESWM-27] (released 07.04.25) 
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/discontinuities-subtle-discontinuities

Albums
ES Waves - 'On a Turbo' [ES Waves Media, 2023]
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/album/on-a-turbo-lp

‘Nakatomi Plaza’ [Inaspace Recordings, 2006]
https://open.spotify.com/album/1NofQyudekl9YnJK77FPfT

‘Parasol Stars’ [ES Waves Media, 2011]
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/album/parasol-stars

‘Hi Real’ [ES Waves Media, 2020]
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/album/hi-real

Singles
ES Waves - 'Rush Dips' [ESWM-26] (released 17.02.25) 
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/rush-dips

ES Waves - 'Transcendental Still Culture' [ES Waves Media] (released 10.06.24) 
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/transcendental-still-culture

ES Waves - 'Ht the Jets Blue (Turbo Mix)' [ES Waves Media] [released 29.01.24]
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/hit-the-jets-blue-turbo-mix

ES Waves - 'From Time' / 'September Blow' [01.12.23 - Blue Amazon Affiliate] https://blueamazon.bandcamp.com/album/from-time-september-blow

ES Waves - 'Legend Video / By Any Possible Energy of Words' [19.05.23 - Blue Amazon Affiliate Records]
https://blueamazon.bandcamp.com/album/legend-video

ESWM-022 ES Waves - 'The Triple Shade' [ES Waves Media]
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/the-triple-shade

ESWM-021 ES Waves - 'Geospacial Format One' [ES Waves Media] (released 02.12.2022)
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/geospacial-format-one

ESWM-020 ES Waves - 'Dimension Full Spectrum' [ES Waves Media] (released 26.09.22)
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/dimension-full-spectrum

ESWM-019 ES Waves - 'Life (Any Percent)' [ES Waves Media] (released 04.07.22)
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/life-any-percent

ESWM-018 ES Waves - 'Pictures Run' [ES Waves Media] (released 09.05.22)
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/pictures-run

ESWM-017 ES Waves - 'Energies Direct Total' [ES Waves Media] (released 14.02.22)
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/energies-direct-total

ESWM-016 ES Waves - 'In Mystic Time' [ES Waves Media] (released 31.05.21)
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/in-mystic-time

ESWM-015 ES Waves - 'Memories Dreams Futures' [ES Waves Media] (released 01.04.21)
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/memories-dreams-futures

ESWM-014 ES Waves - 'Mixed Reality' [ES Waves Media] (released 01.02.21)
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/mixed-reality

ESWM-013 ES Waves - 'A Little Lost Time' [ES Waves Media] (released 14.12.20)
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/a-little-lost-time

ESWM-012 ES Waves - 'Cosmos of Pure Mind' [ES Waves Media] (released 19.10.20)
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/cosmos-of-pure-mind

ESWM-010 ES Waves - Raymond Sells Hope [ES Waves Media] (released 01.06.20)
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/raymond-sells-hope

ESWM-009 ES Waves - Hi Real One Power [ES Waves Media] (released 30.03.20)
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/hi-real-one-power
https://open.spotify.com/track/5qBAF2Mz87zarQVuZPrxBK?si=7zgcZs1hTmq7b5ueYKpdgA

ESWM-008 ES Waves - HRI Dream [ES Waves Media] (released 27.01.20)
https://eswaves.bandcamp.com/track/hri-dream
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JCrXSTEE5IwG8D4ojmqEd?si=D1dyi7oaTDmtsDQTZIBmSg

ESWM-007 ES Waves - Phuse La [ES Waves Media] (released 25.11.19)
https://open.spotify.com/album/6XHfIKcI5tpZs2EDbOip0U?si=fHN4lPr8SQa_tL_mcAbcxQ
https://open.spotify.com/track/7IL1DiFN7Fr4Gmv72lFBIr?si=D419dceHS7mj4fglXPTAjg

ESWM-006 ES Waves - Vrek 2 [ES Waves Media] (released 07.10.19)
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ji5Im7zMQ2A1hxleqJegV?si=sdt44z1qT_qsH0ryYI0-lw
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ji5Im7zMQ2A1hxleqJegV?si=f2VPjlmoSE-4j6zfawyWYA

ESWM-004 ES Waves - ‘Powerdrome’
http://open.spotify.com/album/4JPg5wtSnaTmuWATsIOIMD

ESWM-003 ES Waves - ‘Wavelands’
http://open.spotify.com/album/5m8bmxXaRgCJoS0wL4KC5H

ESWM-002 ES Waves - ‘Email for Lucky’
http://open.spotify.com/album/4kDx3jn0swQtju9aZGAHG6

ESWM-001 ES Waves – ‘Neon Dreams / Laser Beams’
http://open.spotify.com/album/4m37lmoR10JQWj5PGdsruE

Contact - email ‘info [at] eswaves.com’ replacing the ‘[at]‘ with ‘@’.

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"The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited." - C.S. Lewis
In the early part of 2023, the Triune God unexpectedly transformed my mind and renewed my heart, and I gave my life to Christ. I have not been the same since, and it's been the most profound joy to study God's Word and, therefore, to know Him. This 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘢 has changed my view of the world and how I think, speak, listen, etc. I sincerely pray for God's Will and not my own, for whatever the flesh desires is of this world, and I now live for His Kingdom