Born in Bangladesh, Android Lust auteur Shikhee has been exploring the cutting edge of desire, rage, and panic in her songs since her first independent release in 1998. Borrowing elements from diverse musical styles, Android Lust presents a blend of electronic rock that is provocative, engaging, and fiercely emotional. Shikhee has been making quite the name for herself in the indie electronic music community. Her music evolves with each release, showing a greater musical range than the plethora of unoriginal and copycat bands in the scene.

Singer/Songwriter Michelle Mays has been likened to a blend of Lorena McKennitt and Joan Baez. Michelle's music has a distinct style that is all her own.  Take a Jazzy Blues singer, a smidgen of folk music,  throw in an anthropologist, add a bit of an Earth Mother, and refine it with a strong sense of the spiritual and you then have a good base to describe her music.  However, when asked where her musical style comes from, she smiles and says, 'Mother Earth'. Incidentally, in an interview on Earth Radio International, Mark Kelly likened her music to.. Channeling the Goddess.

TWPT is proud to continue our series of Artist interviews with our latest entry featuring Steve Roach. For the last 23 years Steve Roach has been creating some of the most innovative and personal electronic compositions ever to find their way onto vinyl, cassettes and CD's. Beginning with 1984's Structures of Silence and continuing with 1988's Dreamtime Return Roach has created one classic after another in the field of electronic and space music.

Steve feels that the urge to create his compositions is equivalent to the act of  breathing and I'm sure that explains why he has been so prolific over the years and why he has no intention of slowing down in the forseeable future. Put on a Steve Roach CD and dig right in to this insightful interview. Enjoy.

Byron Metcalf is a drummer, percussionist, recording artist, and record producer. With over 30 years as a professional musician, he has performed on gold and platinum albums in the pop and country fields and in recent years has been experimenting with the use of drums, percussion, and other sounds to induce nonordinary (altered) states of consciousness in both ceremonial and therapeutic contexts. Byron's 1998 CD release HELPERS, GUIDES & ALLIES continues to receive enthusiastic reviews in the shamanic, trance dance, and therapeutic communities, and was rated #4 in Backroads Music's 1998 Best of Year Selections in the World Music category. Byron collaborated with award winning recording artist and sonic innovator Steve Roach on the critically acclaimed 2-disc epic THE SERPENT'S LAIR (Projekt Records, Sept. 2000). NOT WITHOUT RISK was Byron's second solo project. WACHUMA'S WAVE (Spotted Peccary, 2003), a collaboration with German artist Mark Seelig (with Steve Roach), was chosen by Backroads Music as the #1 Release of 2003 in all categories.

TWPT is proud to continue our series of Artist interviews with our latest entry featuring Patrick O'Hearn. Since the release of his critically acclaimed Ancient Dreams CD Patrick has been no stranger to ambient listeners over the years. Towards the end of 2000 Patrick returned to the world wide web with a brand new website and announcing that he had a new CD ready for release. Patrick's music has often found its way into our CD players here at Ambient Visions so we thought now would be a good time to catch up with Patrick and to see what he had been up over the last few years. Anyone who has read one of TWPT's interviews knows that we don't stop there either. Join us as we talk to Patrick about the roots of music in his life, his early days in the world of pop music and his triumphant entry into the fledgling ambient music industry. I'm sure that you will find it as fascinating as I did. Join us now as we present Patrick O'Hearn.

TWPT is proud to continue our series of Artist interviews with our latest entry featuring Medwyn Goodall. We spoke with Medwyn at length during this interview about many aspects of his music starting with the inspiration for a project and following that idea along all the way to the point where the CD is pressed and sold. We found Medwyn to be not only open to the questions but possessing a quick wit and a very humorous side which you will get to see as you progress through our chat. This is very refreshing to see in someone of Medwyn's stature within the New Age/Ambient musical community. Often times the larger the star the harder it is to just carry on a casual conversation with the person and find out who they really are beyond the hype and the PR. To understand why they create their music and what it is that keeps them moving forward in their careers. You will learn all this and much more as we present to you TWPT's interview with Medwyn Goodall. Enjoy!

Welcome to another of our great interviews. This time we are featuring the talents of Kim Waters and Hans Christian who collectively form the group..RASA. RASA released their debut CD on the Hearts of Space label earlier this year. We are very proud to offer our readers this glimpse into the lives of Kim Waters and Hans Christian and how RASA came to be. I'm sure that you will enjoy this interview and that after you are done you will want to go out and get your own copy of their debut CD Devotion. For now though sit back and relax as we present our chat with RASA.

RASA's Devotion was chosen as the best new age CD of 2000 by Amazon.com!

TWPT is proud to present our next interview. Gabrielle Roth moves easily between the Dance that she loves so well and the music that acts as a catalyst for the Dance to take place. If you are familiar with Gabrielle's music you already know the power contained therein but for Gabrielle that is only the beginning. Join us as we talk to Gabrielle Roth about her views concerning her music, her spirituality and of course her Dance. If you are not familiar with Gabrielle's music or her books I would urge you to pick up a copy and learn even more about the passions that drive Gabrielle and how you can make them a part of your life too. Thanks for stopping by and without further ado we present.......Gabrielle Roth.

Welcome to the first of many exclusive interviews with Ambient , New Age and Electronica musicians and vocalists. We kick off this series with a marvelous talk that we had with Robert Gass a few weeks back. Robert is a powerful proponent of chant and the many benefits that can be derived from this powerful practice. Thanks for joining us, now lets get on with our interview with Robert Gass. Click the title above to begin reading.