The Lightwerx Collective is a community of likeminded artists, and their releases contain a cross-section of work from all of those involved. Their music travels between modern chamber music pieces and ambient electronica, stopping off at cool combinations in between.

The collective’s latest compilation A Peaceful Place, featuring work from Allness, William Hevans, Poems At Dusk and Soft Passage, is a suite of fairly short pieces that, in sequence, add up to a seamless, soft focus soundscape. The creations are constructed from synthetic strings, temple bells and gongs. Stretched soothing drones. Warm, reassuring textures and tones. Sequences that sing like celestial voices. Summoning the classic Californian new age of Suzanne Ciani and the late, great giggle energy guru, Iasos. Plus the stuff by Steven Halpern and Vangelis that graces, spiritually uplifts, Jose Padilla’s rightly, much-loved Cafe del Mar sunset tapes. 

By turns these tunes are symphonic, shimmering and ethereal. Sometimes cinematic. Switching from swooning, aching romantic to sad, nostalgic film cues. Stitching, weaving in whispers of birdsong, trickling field recordings of fresh water streams, and the relaxing sound of rolling, crashing surf. Always serene. Still. Sonic beacons of light. Each, individually, and together, collectively, a super suitable score for sensory-deprived salt-water soak. Perfect, in fact, for inducing the album title’s desired peaceful, certainly not Ken Russell’s scary, primordial, altered states. 

You can check out Lightwerx Collective’s catalogue here.