Barry Schrader

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Barry Schrader

NEW ALBUM

One of the best albums on Bandcamp for 2025

“It takes an old school electronic composer to make an ambient album full of startling, subtle, new details.”

- George Grella

Other Reviews:

It is some of the finest minimal space ambient I've come across, where atmosphere is all, activity is slight, and the tone is everything. …it is thematically consistent throughout, mostly smooth as silk, and a pleasure to listen to. If space ambient is your kind of music, don't let this one pass you by. - Steve Mecca, Chain D.L.K.

Barry Schrader’s new album consists of four tracks of densely packed music. Each piece is something like sheets of sound, music that fills the air with a broad spectrum of frequencies shimmering like hundreds of thousands of fireflies in the night. The music would serve as a great soundtrack for an ascension or a flight in an open cockpit. - Isotope, KFJC 89.7 FM

We are pleased as punch that Barry Schrader has a new album out since he hasn't released any new material in about ten years. Entitled Ambient: Aether, the album features four beautifully executed ambient instrumentals: Cloudrise," "Atmospheric Rivers," "Supernal Ascent" and "Aether." All of the sounds were computer generated and yet...the overall sound is surprisingly warm and organic. Truly nice hypnotic stuff. - babysue

Cloudrise Video

Aether Video

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“Schrader feels vast, expansive, timeless” Ryan Gaston, Perfect Circuit

The Barnum Museum invites you to feel as though you’re being taken on a sonic journey to some unusual spaces filled with unusual creatures. The dimensions and contents of a virtual world are described in sound. It is a tour de force of electroacoustic know-how by a master and pioneer in the field.
Ross Feller - Computer Music Journal

"Barry Schrader can produce sounds that genuinely surprise with their virtuosity and imagination."
John Rockwell, New York Times

"Schrader is a composer born to the electronic medium. He paints with veiled and mysterious tone colors."
Philip Springer, Los Angeles Times

"[Schrader’s] music conjures up a whirlwind of emotion from some primeval source that permeates the listener with awe."
Bebe Barron, co-composer of the score for Forbidden Planet

"There's a great sweep to Schrader's work that puts it more in line with ambitious large-scale electronic works by the likes of Stockhausen (Hymnen), Eloy (Shanti) and Henry (take your pick), a line that can be traced backwards to Mahler, Bruckner and Beethoven."
Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic Magazine

"Barry Schrader's music is crafted with infinite patience, critical attentiveness, and meticulous listening. In adhering to these ideals, this music withstands the test of time and stands uniquely in the American electronic music genre."
Elainie Lillios, Computer Music Journal

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