Album Notes

This is the original professional *CD* release on Spectral Spiral Music in 2001.

If you would like to buy the re-issued *CDR* version of Bislama please visit:

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By the way, the iTunes link to download Bislama is:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=270513863 (copy and paste into your browser)

Some reviews of Bislama:

This excellent ethno-ambient album is filled with exotic sounds of gamelan, koto, Tibetan bowls, ethnic percussion, sounds of raindrops and faraway thunder...

The compositions send us to a world of green tropical remote islands, to the shores of blue lagoons as well as to the enigmatic outer space - mystical, purple splashes pulsing from the depths of otherworldly canyons - that is the magic of Alpha Wave Movement's music supported by the deep vibrating throat roaring and high pitched whirr of Jim Cole's overtone singing.

Hypnotic and melodic, it's a very serious and valuable work - at moments similar to Propagation by Robert Rich.

~ Andrey Pechkaryov, Jazz Quadrant (translation from Russian by Sasha Parsadanov)



Many parts of this disc are truly magical in their scope, like powerful cinematic imagery set to music. “Sanguine Moon”, for example, combines multi-tracked voices (simple and harmonic singing) with droning synths, drums and a tuned wooden percussive sound, gongs and metallophones, creating a very active rhythm substrata.

~ Peter Thelen, Exposé



A truly synergistic effort...a natural blending of elements that go perfectly together. It links future and past, cutting-edge electronics and the original instrument, the human voice, into a singular musical message....The music grows and changes organically, sometimes dramatically as with “Satari,” which bristles with restrained intensity and power.

~ Phil Derby / Sequences Magazine