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News stories, articles and updates from composer Simon Wilkinson. All my latest music projects, releases and placements are listed here. You'll also find occasional articles, news stories and general things that catch my ear in the world of documentary music and film soundtracks. You can search for specific articles on the right and if you want to follow my updates just point your RSS feed here.

Posted on 7th February 2019 by Simon Wilkinson

Music Video For Gravity Waves

Simon Wilkinson – Gravity Waves

Thank you to whoever went to the trouble of creating this lovely video to accompany my ambient track Gravity Waves from Cryosleep Dreams. Shame it cuts off early at the end but beautiful atmospheric images!

Posted on 26th July 2018 by Simon Wilkinson

Vapour Mining Featured On Hypnagogue Podcast

Thanks again to John Shanahan at Hypnagogue Podcast for featuring my track Vapour Mining from my latest ambient space music album Stateless on Episode 214 of his excellent ambient and electronic music podcast. This is the second time John has featured my music on Hypnagogue and I’m honoured once again to be featured alongside some great musicians in the ambient genre.

Check out this episode and all the others here:

https://hypnagoguepodcast.com/2018/07/26/episode-241/

Posted on 26th July 201827th July 2018 by Simon Wilkinson

My Music Featured On New Long Form Radio Show: In The Stream

Music from my latest ambient space music album Stateless is being featured in a new radio show on One World Music Radio. My track Glidepath is being played on episode 1 of In The Stream, a new show focusing on long-form music tracks (at least 10 minutes long) including music from Steve Roach, Forrest Fang and many other great artists.

If you can’t tune in live, the show is archived on Mixcloud at the following link:

https://www.mixcloud.com/OWM/in-the-stream-1/

Posted on 20th July 201820th July 2018 by Simon Wilkinson

Blue Water Drift Dive

Very nice to read some positive words about my music from Darrell Burgan over on the Blue Water Drift Dive website:

“This is gorgeous ambient space music, perfectly produced, and simply exquisite. Words often used but, in this case, wholly justified.”

Thank you Darrell!

https://bluewaterdriftdive.com/2018/07/16/discovering-simon-wilkinson/

Posted on 12th June 2018 by Simon Wilkinson

My Music Featured On One World Music Radio

The track Descent In Amber from my most recent ambient album Stateless is featured in the latest playlist from One World Music Radio and is available to listen to on Mixcloud in the player above or the link below:

https://www.mixcloud.com/OWM/playlist-132-sponsored-by-deborah-offenhauser/

Hear more from One World Music Radio here:

http://www.oneworldmusic.co.uk/

Posted on 25th May 2018 by Simon Wilkinson

My Music On Syndae.de Podcast 435

My track Descent In Amber from my most recent ambient space music album Stateless has been featured on the Syndae.de podcast (Ep 435) from Stefan Schulze.

You can listen to the podcast on the link below along with other artists including Steve Roach, Kevin Lyons and more:

https://www.syndae.de/12-episode/809-episode-435

Posted on 17th May 2018 by Simon Wilkinson

Stateless Album Sampler Video

Simon Wilkinson: Stateless [Ambient album sampler]

Here’s a promo video for my latest ambient space music album Stateless. The video features short clips from each of the 7 album tracks accompanied by some atmospheric space/sci-fi themed imagery. The album is available to buy or stream from the usual places including Bandcamp and Spotify etc. (as well as right here on this website!):

Bandcamp:
https://thebluemask.bandcamp.com/album/stateless

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0CobWBIv97fjevDmzW1HFW

iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/album/stateless/1383085678

Posted on 9th May 201811th May 2018 by Simon Wilkinson

New Ambient Space Music Album: Stateless

I’ve just released the fourth of my ambient music albums, Stateless, which is now available here on my website or also over at Bandcamp and all the other usual streaming services.

Stateless is a 7 track collection (nearly 80 minutes total) of longform atmospheric soundscapes and cinematic drone music. As with most of my ambient work, a sci-fi theme runs throughout the pieces which have a highly visual feel to them.

You can get the album from the following links and if you’re interested in licensing any of the music for games, films or videos etc. then drop me a line for more info and what you’re looking to license it for and I’ll get back to you with details:

https://www.thebluemask.com/music-tracks/stateless/

Posted on 26th January 201826th January 2018 by Simon Wilkinson

Super Blue Blood Moon Video Featuring My Music

I’ve been getting a few emails from people about a video currently on Facebook which uses my music. The video (see above) is from Hashem Al-Ghaili‘s excellent Science & Nature Page and it currently has around 27 million views. It’s a video explaining the upcoming Super Blue Blood Moon on January 31st 2018 and the track of mine is called Theory Of Time.

Unfortunately it’s only available on my Royalty Free Music Vol.3 collection here on my website:

http://www.thebluemask.com/music-tracks/royalty-free-film-documentary-music-vol3-animated-antics/

I say ‘unfortunately’ because the download also includes an unlimited license to use all the music from the album in your own personal or commercial videos, therefore it’s priced at £39.99 which I realise is lot more than ‘regular’ albums that people might generally buy!

So sorry but it’s not available on Spotify or anywhere else just to buy/listen to that one track, but thanks to everyone who has contacted me about it and enjoy the Super Blue Blood Moon!

Posted on 3rd December 2017 by Simon Wilkinson