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Tim Halbert's Radius, the second album from the composer of New Age sensation Excremental Intermission, is now available on compact disc priced at £7.99 £4.99 in the UK and $19.99 $9.99 internationally (with free postage & packaging). Click here to buy it!

The album can now also be downloaded from iTunes.

In this brand new keyboard-based album, jazz, club and Celtic influences are fused together with the fundamentals of experimentalism and minimalism to create a smooth yet unmistakably diverse arrangement of songs, bound together by a subtly-presented five note motif.

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1. Radius (3m 51s) • preview • about the track
A purposeful sequential merger of the other seven songs in retro-pop stylée with a robot voice looking on semi-peacefully.
2. Purposes (4m 01s) • preview • about the track
A slow thoughtful meandering piano piece in AAA-form that layers up to a pleasant Oriental-sounding tune in the middle and then fades away.
3. Biofuel (3m 54s) • preview • about the track
A minimalist Hollywood family-friendly piece played by three pianos and an orchestra.
4. Overshadow (6m 14s) • preview • about the track
A dark brooding ambient piece featuring a bell and other assorted noises, and a piano solo in the middle. The signature motif runs throughout the entire piece, even in the bassline, and you'll hear it again around the rest of the album if you listen carefully enough.
5. Organ Donation (4m 11s) • preview • about the track
An experimental dynamic pop-jazz hybrid that uses an organ as the lead instrument. A shock contrast (although not so much of a shock now we've told you, natch) is manifested by a couple of unexpected seaside resort-style organ solos (ice cream sold separately).
6. Sword Dance (4m 26s) • preview • about the track
Club tune with a couple of interlocking motifs and a filtered bassline. Obligatory emotive piano solo towards the end.
7. Indigenous (5m 31s) • preview • about the track
A double homage to our British Isles/Australian roots in the form of a dance tune with a lightning-fast Celtic melody and didjeridu-laden interlude.
8. Standby (3m 39s) • preview • about the track A relaxing minimalist guitar motif with a simple piano tune.

The style is similar to that of the more popular songs from the last album. It is much more in the ambient mould than the fromage (though there still has to be some fromage, obviously).

It is much shorter: there are only eight tracks on the album. Attention to detail was the key. The whole thing has been written so that it flows properly and can be listened to from start to finish without any nasty surprises or flushes of toilets.

We gained a lot from looking at which songs those of you who downloaded the last album went for. The end result here is something that you will be hard-pressed to find something to hate about. It is most definitely worth its weight in gold.

Order the CD now!

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We would recommend downloading the album instead of buying the CD if you're living outside of the UK. You'll save quite a few bob that would otherwise have gone on postage and money transfer fees, and it's faster as well!

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