I'd like to point your attention to artist, illustrator & designer Louis Reith. Louis lives and works in The Netherlands and has created the cover and a beautiful ink drawing for the new Ruis-album. Check out his work here or here.
Very nice review of Ruis on Fluid Radio. Check it out here. Fluid Radio also hosts some very nice mixes, mainly electronic and ambient. Definitely worth to visit !
I got to know the lovely Belgian Slaapwel Records label in fall 2009 and was impressed by Wim Maesschalks original approach in releasing records. "Nomen est omen" as they say in latin so Wim only releases records that make him fall asleep at night. So I've asked him if I could have a go at it and he agreed. I succeeded in giving him a good night's rest with a 30-minute piece called Ruis (a dutch word for the sound, made by wind in the trees or waves on a shore), composed in november 2009. You can check out the music here.
Those who have been following me a bit via my website http://www.sonmi451.be/ know that I'm into creating ambient music. If you like Shuttle358, Taylor Deupree, Fennesz or Biosphere, you might also like Sonmi451. On a good note U-Cover has released a new Sonmi451-album called Spectrum. It has become a nice droney album. More info here. And there's more music to be released in spring so I'll keep you posted.