Using specially-processed Canadian wilderness sounds as an ambient backdrop, this music on the track gradually opens to an almost magic-infused glade in an enchanted forest.

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Solo piano work written in 2009. Relaxing, meditative and melancholy.

Drifting...Deep

Old Long Since

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Classic ambient track from the classic ambient album, "The Ambient Expanse". Floating and spacious with distant piano melodies and earthy textural undertones.

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Point of Safety

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A melodic ambient track inspired by Christmas eve

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A track from the album, Bardo. Combines koto, persian setar with violin, viola, cello, harp, piano and synthesizer. A contrapuntal tour-de-force!

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