Welcome to Melliflua - Dene Bebbington's review site that aims to keep fans of instrumental music informed about recent releases. Here you can find regular (hopefully!) reviews of releases in the EM, ambient, spacemusic, adult contemporary, and new age genres. Occasionally I will also take a more personal look at a classic album or interview a musician whose work I'm particularly interested in.

A note on my reviewing style. I rarely write overly negative reviews, for the simple reason that I've got better things to do than listen to bad CDs several times in order to write about them. Though I will gush about some music that really enthralls, I'm not averse to expressing criticism where it is due. The genre classifications against each album are only meant as a rough guide to the kind of music on the album.

I'm also a reviewer for Audion magazine, and some CDs reviewed here may also get reviewed by me in a reworded form in a future issue of that magazine.

Click on the CD image to see the review.

New as of December 23, 2007:

  Random musings



Reviews:


  Dan Pound - Tantra Majik (ambient/world)




  Justin Vanderberg - In Waking Moments (ambient)




  Red Needled Sea - Old River Blues (ambient)




  Abandoned Toys - The Witch's Garden (neo-classical/new age)




  William Edge - Soundchamber (ambient/electronica)




  Dave Fulton & Giles Reaves - The Range (EM)




  Byron Metcalf - A Warning from the Elders (ambient/world)




  Tom Heasley & Toss Panos - Passages (ambient/experimental)




  Numina - Shift to the Ghost (ambient)