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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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


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

🎧 Epica – A Cinematic Odyssey by Keith Richie

"Music is a potent mood regulator. Simply by listening, our frame of mind changes. It can open a portal to another dimension where all sense of normality vanishes. "

Epica is a sweeping, cinematic journey through sound — a richly layered, emotionally expansive album that fuses ambient electronica, Berlin-school sequencing, and science fiction themes into a single immersive experience.

Crafted by Texas-based composer Keith Richie, Epica builds upon the legacy of his prior work (Ambient Highways, Skylines, For the Willow Wept...) and draws clear inspiration from ambient and electronic greats such as Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Carbon Based Lifeforms, and John Carpenter. But what sets Epica apart is its deeply narrative structure — an album that plays like the score to an epic sci-fi or fantasy film that exists only in the listener’s imagination.

Each track serves as a chapter in a larger story: from the ethereal swell of “Remote Isolation” and the meditative pulse of “Rebirth,” to the childlike wonder of “Tiny Creatures” and the twilight tension of “Dusk.” The album peaks with the soaring title track “Epica,” where layered synths, cinematic drums, and Mimi Page’s haunting vocals conjure visions of interstellar heroism. The closing track, “There Are Other Worlds Than These,” named after Richie’s own publishing label and referencing Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, delivers a powerful finale — triumphant, textured, and emotionally resonant.

Like a great novel, Epica is filled with both wonder and tension, beauty and darkness. It’s music built not just for listening, but for feeling — perfect for dreaming, writing, reading, or escaping into other worlds. It invites replay after replay, each listen revealing deeper textures and hidden details.

Fans of sci-fi film scores, ambient storytelling, and imaginative soundscapes will find much to explore here. Epica is not just music — it’s a sonic universe waiting to unfold.

Digital Release: 10/15/2021

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🌟 What Others Are Saying About Epica
A cinematic and emotionally expansive experience, Epica continues to captivate ambient and electronic music enthusiasts. Here’s what the critics have to say:

Journeyscapes Radio – "A cinematic-ambient opus that’s richly layered and deeply immersive."
👉 Read the review: www.journeyscapesradio.com/2022/07/album-review-epica-by-keith-richie.html

New Age Music Guide (Album Feature) – "Epica presents a powerful blend of ambient textures and soundtrack-like storytelling."
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New Age Music Guide (Single Feature) – "The title track captures the sweeping vision of the full album beautifully."
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“There Are Other Worlds Than These” is an original ambient composition by Keith Richie that explores the concept of alternate realities and unseen paths—emotional and cinematic in tone, with layered textures that pull listeners across invisible thresholds.

The title pays subtle homage to a well-known phrase from Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, but the piece itself exists as a personal meditation on change, choice, and the universes we build within ourselves.

🔊 A journey beyond the veil, through soundscapes shaped by wonder, loss, and imagination.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Stephen King or The Dark Tower series. 

Remote Isolation

Other Worlds Than These

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