Keith Richie's Ambient Highways: Rich in Sound & Format
Ambient Highways: The JWVibe review
Jonathan Widran takes a trip down the ambient highway into Keith Richie's synthwave territory, writing an in-depth review that begins, "A simple cursory glance at the extensive discography of Keith Richie paints the image of an extremely prolific ambient electronic composer. Rolling powerfully, with numerous exciting twists and turns, from The Maestoso Interstellar Suite (2006) to his adventurous, innovative, sonically intricate and supremely soulful new epic collection Ambient Highways, we see a multi-faceted discography that allows us, if we’re new to the Richie experience, to explore his sci-fi inspired yearnings through inner and outer space for days.
Yet examine his list of recordings more granularly – and this would be in keeping with the extremely sonically detailed aesthetic of his keyboard centric productions – we learn that most of these works are from after 2015 – the year had a massive and cathartic breakthrough and created the music he’s now releasing as Ambient Highways. On the webpage where interested fans can order the collection as a limited edition 180 gram multi-colored 2XLP vinyl – an extraordinarily bold offering from an indie artist in this genre..."
Ambient Highways
is available in double vinyl, CD format, digital download, and on all streaming platforms.
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