Ed Herbers
Upper Atmosphere

Ed Herbers’ Upper Atmosphere is a deep space-bound voyage that is reminiscent of the best that Jonn Serrie and the late Constance Demby’s work had to offer in both sound and content. Upper Atmosphere is ‘space music’ in the purest sense of the term; a music that gives you a space for thinking and being, but also one where the spaciousness of the sound, timbre and textures allows a listener to get absorbed into the work and taken in. When I listen to Upper Atmosphere, I feel like I’m meeting up with an old friend and by that I mean it’s a warm summer night in the late 1990’s, I”m just getting settled into a new home about an hour outside of the Detroit suburbs, when I was randomly surfing the radio dial to see what new sounds my new location might reveal and I discovered Music from the Hearts of Space; Stephen Hill’s disembodied voice eerily booming through the sub-woofer on my 8-speaker AIWA stereo and I was hearing, fresh and anew the music of VidnaObmana, Kevin Keller, Jeff Pearce, Richard Bone and Steve Roach. That experience became my entry point into the music that would come to define the last 25+ years and most of my adult life – It was a wonderful time of sonic and musical awakening. Upper Atmosphere takes me back to that place, that space, that state of mind, covering, somehow the panoply of that artistic canon. I can’t guarantee that Upper Atmosphere will transport you like some kind of time-travel back to your simpler self, but I can’t guarantee that it won’t either. Do yourself and listen to Ed Herbers’ Upper Atmosphere, your peace of mind will be glad you did. Get it on Bandcamp here.

Matt Borghi
Ambient Soundbath