This week's four Magnatune releases are all fairly relaxed and mellow. Two releases blend East and West, and the other two are in the field of melodic electronic music.

- Composer and harpsichordist/harpist Celia Harper is one of my favorite contemporary classical composers. She is firmly in the tradition of Arvo Part, with a strong influence of Early Music in her compositions. Harper releases her music under the name "Sulis", and this single work entitled "The Vision of Enoch" looks Easterly, with its use of singing bowls accompanying a counter-tenor and soprano. Beautiful and moving. http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/sulis-enoch

- Emavision: a stunning Electro-Eastern album mixing traditional Chinese folk singing with electronic accompaniment. The band "Deep Forest" comes to mind, but in many ways this is more successful as Emavision's musicians are themselves Chinese: this music is a real part of their musical ancestry. http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/emavision-dalliance

- Saros' latest album was commissioned for a video installation/movie about dolphins. It's swimming and swirling electronic melodies work perfectly as standalone music, which I hope you'll enjoy. http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/saros-aquadelph

- Mystified: beats, drones and progressions work in tandem to create a surprising variety of songs. Pieces are hooky and memorable, and definitely suggest a more palatable side of "Mystified".
http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/mystified-tension

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Description: guitar-edged industrial electrorock Genre: Rock Artist: CrimsonFaced Album: Lunatic Binge Lunatic Binge veers from sick rock and roll to melodic musings about life. Think Trent Reznor meets the Bee Gees (after a drug binge). Think Pink Floyd for the 21st Century. Think Ozzy and a sequencer doing battle for each others' soul. Mike locked himself away in his "Sober Sucks Studios"--lovingly caressing his guitar strings in the most god-awful perverted way. His poor keyboard was banged and hammered from one end of the studio to the other. Between psychotherapy sessions Mike and his mixer/therapist Paul Kurzweil, wrote and recorded 18 songs, 13 of which come together on the deliciously demented and aptly titled "Lunatic Binge".