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.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Unfortunately I've now stopped reviewing and cannot accept any submissions for the forseeable future. See the Random Musings page for details.

Click on the CD image to see the review.

New as of August 17, 2008:

  Random musings



Reviews:


  Dan Pound - Drift (ambient)




  Aron Kirk - Seep (ambient/electronica)




  Guido Meyer - Connected to the Dead (EM rock)




  Tor Lundvall - The Seasons Unfold (ambient)




  vidmaObmana - An Opera for Four Fusion Works (ambient)




  Indra - Tripura Sundari (EM)




  Synth.nl - AeroDynamics (EM)




  Craig Padilla - Below the Mountain (EM)




  Volt - Nucleosynthesis (EM)




  Kerry Leimer - Lesser Epitomes (ambient)




  Craig Padilla & Skip Murphy - Analog Destination (EM)




  Create - Space Time Continuum (EM)




  Indra - Bhuvaneshvari (EM)




  Ron Boots - See Bayond Times Look Beyond Words (EM)




  Gert Emmens - The Nearest Faraway Place Volume 1 (EM)




  Create - Lost on an Island of Adventure (EM)




  Various Artists - Dreams of Myspace Vol 1 (EM)




  Robert Schroeder - D.MO Vol 2 (EM)




  Oenyaw - A Party of One at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe (ambient)