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

The Birth of Infinity

Back in early 2019, I released a single called Distant Visions. After hearing it, a fan commented:
“Almost sounds like something from a second interstellar suite.”

They were referring to my 2006 album The Maestoso Interstellar Suite—a project I re-released with extended material in 2016 for its 10-year anniversary. That comment stuck with me. Did it feel like a sequel? Could it be?

I toyed with the idea. But having just expanded the suite into a double-disc format in 2016, I wasn’t sure a sequel was the right move—especially given how the original was structured as a continuous, uninterrupted journey. I had also briefly considered a vinyl edition, but the flow of the piece and the 22-minute-per-side vinyl limit made it a poor fit for that format. The experience would have been compromised.

Around that time, I released a “radio edit” version of the suite called Singularities to provide an accessible entry point. But if I returned to the suite with new material, I feared I’d be stuck doing the same thing again: a full continuous version and a separate edited version. Frankly, I didn’t want to go through that process again—and since then, I’ve moved away from long single-track formats entirely.

Even then, I was already thinking about vinyl-friendly runtimes, aiming to keep my future projects under 44 minutes so they could fit comfortably on a single LP. I’ve also significantly upgraded my gear and virtual instrument libraries since that time, giving me access to orchestral and hybrid textures I could only dream of back then. Now I have the tools—but what should I do with them?

I thought: Maybe I don’t need a sequel at all. Maybe it’s not about making The Maestoso Interstellar Suite Part II, or Return to Maestoso, or anything like that. Maybe I just need to reimagine the entire idea as something ongoing—something open.

Looking back, I always felt I had to make compromises when producing the 10-year edition. Some sounds weren’t what I was hearing in my head. Hardware limitations forced me to bounce tracks just to finish mixing. I wanted that big, lush, hybrid orchestral sound—and I couldn’t quite get there.

Now I can.

And I’ve got older projects—like La Famille Du Solénoïde (The Family of Sol)—waiting for a modern update. Thematically, they fit perfectly.

So I’ve made a decision:
I’m not making a sequel to The Maestoso Interstellar Suite.

Instead, I’m creating something bigger.

Introducing Infinity

Infinity is an evolving series. A collection of volumes. A universe of sound that has no end—only pauses between stars. It’s not a sequel. It’s not a remix. It’s a living archive of exploration—part ambient, part orchestral, part space music, and completely me.

And to start, I’ll revisit the music that inspired it all.

I’ll go back and refine The Maestoso Interstellar Suite one final time—polish the edges, rework the structure to be vinyl-compatible, and finally bring it closer to what I always heard in my head.

But I won’t just re-release it.

I’ll rebrand it.

The Journey Begins

The Infinity series begins with:

Infinity Volume I – The Maestoso Interstellar Suite

Infinity Volume II – Singularities

Each will stand on its own—but together, they form the beginning of something open-ended. Something I can return to any time inspiration calls.

Infinity has no final tracklist. No end. Only volumes.

And when I’m ready, I’ll add another.

Maybe it’s a crazy idea. But that’s okay—I’m doing this for me.
And I hope you’ll enjoy the journey too.

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