Full long-form ambient track available at: https://ancientastronaut.bandcamp.com/album/peaceful-observers
Peaceful Observers is an ambient track weaving together soothing streams of ambient soundscapes and subtle sounds of nature as an invitation to in-joy a peaceful moment of self-care with relaxation, creativity, awareness of our own inner safe place.
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Ancient Astronaut - Peaceful Observers (Short Version)

The title track “Ambient Highways” embodies the spirit of the album—a contemplative, cinematic piece that weaves together emotion, reflection, and expansive soundscapes. It is the heart of the journey, offering a moment of clarity within chaos.

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Ambient Highways blends ambient, electronic, and cinematic soundscapes—finding beauty within chaos and moments of clarity. Fans of Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, and Hans Zimmer will feel right at home.

Credits:
Written & Produced by Keith Richie
Label: Other Worlds Than These
℗ 2021 Other Worlds Than These • © 2021 Other Worlds Than These


Ambient Highways

🎧 Ambient Highways | Title Track by Keith Richie

“Weeping Angels” is a haunting piece from Ambient Highways—ethereal, mysterious, and evocative. With a cinematic edge, it conjures images of unseen watchers and quiet echoes in the dark.

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About the Album:
Ambient Highways blends ambient, electronic, and cinematic soundscapes—finding beauty within chaos and moments of clarity. Fans of Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, and Hans Zimmer will feel right at home.

Credits:
Written & Produced by Keith Richie
Label: Other Worlds Than These
℗ 2021 Other Worlds Than These • © 2021 Other Worlds Than These


Weeping Angels

🎧 Weeping Angels | From the album Ambient Highways by Keith Richie

“Faith’s Song (Ptilopteri Waltz)” is one of the most personal compositions from Ambient Highways—tender, melodic, and deeply heartfelt. Written as a musical tribute, it blends delicate themes with waltz-like rhythms, capturing both fragility and strength.

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About the Album:
Ambient Highways blends ambient, electronic, and cinematic soundscapes—finding beauty within chaos and moments of clarity. Fans of Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, and Hans Zimmer will feel right at home.

Credits:
Written & Produced by Keith Richie
Label: Other Worlds Than These
℗ 2021 Other Worlds Than These • © 2021 Other Worlds Than These


Faith's Song (Ptilopteri Waltz)

🎧 Faith’s Song (Ptilopteri Waltz) | From the album Ambient Highways by Keith Richie

“Arctic Shores” drifts with icy calm and expansive depth, evoking the stillness of frozen landscapes and the quiet majesty of nature. A meditative track that invites reflection and peace.

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About the Album:
Ambient Highways blends ambient, electronic, and cinematic soundscapes—finding beauty within chaos and moments of clarity. Fans of Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, and Hans Zimmer will feel right at home.

Credits:
Written & Produced by Keith Richie
Label: Other Worlds Than These
℗ 2021 Other Worlds Than These • © 2021 Other Worlds Than These


Arctic Shores

🎧 Arctic Shores | From the album Ambient Highways by Keith Richie

“Dew from the Mourning Star” glimmers with quiet beauty and celestial light, evoking the mystery of night giving way to dawn. A track that feels both fragile and eternal, shimmering with meditative calm.

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About the Album:
Ambient Highways blends ambient, electronic, and cinematic soundscapes—finding beauty within chaos and moments of clarity. Fans of Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, and Hans Zimmer will feel right at home.

Credits:
Written & Produced by Keith Richie
Label: Other Worlds Than These
℗ 2021 Other Worlds Than These • © 2021 Other Worlds Than These

Dew from the Mourning Star

🎧 Dew from the Mourning Star | From the album Ambient Highways by Keith Richie

“Keeping the Dream Alive” is a hopeful and inspiring piece from Ambient Highways, carrying themes of resilience, perseverance, and light shining through the dark. A soaring track that reminds us to never lose sight of our visions.

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About the Album:
Ambient Highways blends ambient, electronic, and cinematic soundscapes—finding beauty within chaos and moments of clarity. Fans of Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, and Hans Zimmer will feel right at home.

Credits:
Written & Produced by Keith Richie
Label: Other Worlds Than These
℗ 2021 Other Worlds Than These • © 2021 Other Worlds Than These


Keeping the Dream Alive

🎧 Keeping the Dream Alive | From the album Ambient Highways by Keith Richie

“Distant Visions” drifts like a dream—gentle, reflective, and expansive. It captures the feeling of faraway horizons and the beauty of imagination reaching beyond the present.

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About the Album:
Ambient Highways blends ambient, electronic, and cinematic soundscapes—finding beauty within chaos and moments of clarity. Fans of Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, and Hans Zimmer will feel right at home.

Credits:
Written & Produced by Keith Richie
Label: Other Worlds Than These
℗ 2021 Other Worlds Than These • © 2021 Other Worlds Than These

Distant Visions

🎧 Distant Visions | From the album Ambient Highways by Keith Richie

“Ultima Thule” is the epic closing piece of Ambient Highways—vast, cinematic, and contemplative. It captures the spirit of journey’s end while leaving the listener with a sense of infinite horizons and timeless wonder.

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About the Album:
Ambient Highways blends ambient, electronic, and cinematic soundscapes—finding beauty within chaos and moments of clarity. Fans of Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, and Hans Zimmer will feel right at home.

Credits:
Written & Produced by Keith Richie
Label: Other Worlds Than These
℗ 2021 Other Worlds Than These • © 2021 Other Worlds Than These


Ultima Thule

🎧 Ultima Thule | From the album Ambient Highways by Keith Richie

Step into the glow of Resonance Alley, where shadows meet neon and every note lingers in the night air. Built on a smooth, chill synthwave groove, the track blends gentle rhythms and melodic arpeggios with a driving bassline that pulses like city lights after dark.

The mood shifts in the breakdowns — an ominous two-note descent cuts through the haze, pulling you deeper into the alley’s mystery, before electric guitar textures ignite the atmosphere. Both dreamy and gritty, Resonance Alley is a late-night journey through hidden streets, where echoes of the past and future collide.

Resonance Alley

For the Willow Wept… (Sunrise Edition)
Release Date: June 24, 2017
© 2017 Keith Richie

For the Willow Wept… (Sunrise Edition) holds a deeply personal place in my heart. While the original version was released in 2012, the journey toward its completion began four years earlier—and it was anything but easy.

During that time, I was navigating an emotional storm. Sitting down to compose felt nearly impossible. When I could gather the energy, I might play a few notes, sketch an idea, or tweak a voice—but more often than not, I’d walk away. Days turned into weeks, weeks into months. The weight of everything I was experiencing made it difficult to focus, and each return to the project often pulled me deeper into a place I was trying to escape.

In retrospect, it’s no surprise that the album drifts between emotional highs and lows—it mirrors the state of my life during those years.

By late 2011 and early 2012, something changed. I began to reclaim my passion for music, bolstered by the support and encouragement of those close to me. I took the six tracks I had and began shaping them into something complete. I didn’t want to release an EP, so I included a reprise of Sea Dragon—essentially the same track with a new intro and outro—to bring balance to the album.

Then, something unexpected happened: I found inspiration.

A piece I’d been struggling with suddenly came together. That track became For the Willow Weeps Underneath the Stormy Skies, and it resonated with me so deeply that I named the entire album after it. Through the presence of someone very close to my heart, I found the strength to finish what I had started.

Although the original album released in June 2012, I always knew I’d return to it. Years later, with new perspective and growth as a composer, I revisited the project. I remastered the original tracks, removed the two earlier versions of Sea Dragon, and kept only the Reprise. I also wrote three new pieces to fully realize the album as a complete emotional arc—one that finally reflects the depth I had envisioned from the beginning.

For the Willow Wept… (Sunrise Edition) is a story of emotional resilience—of navigating darkness and finding the courage to move toward the light. It’s about owning your story, embracing your pain, and realizing that only you have the power to shape your future.

We all face sorrow—but even the longest night eventually gives way to dawn.

This edition is dedicated to my wife, who showed me what true happiness is.
She is my sunrise.
She is my Willow.

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