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Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi, grandson of an early president of postwar Italy and student of Luciano Berio, has at times used either his first or his last name solo. His music is a bit difficult to pin down, for it treads up to the lines of minimalism, new age, and pop piano without quite going over any of them. It depends on repeated, slowly shifting piano figures but is too grand to be really minimalist. Stress reduction and contemplativeness are the chief virtues ascribed to it by its admirers, but it doesn't have the improvisatory jazz basis of American new age music.

2023 is the 10th anniversary of Einaudi’s most popular album, In A Time Lapse. Building on the success of Nightbook and integrating more instrumentation than ever before, Einaudi fully embraced the range of possibilities this provided him. From delicate tracks including Waterways and the haunting Underwood through to Life, Experience and Newton’s Cradle where the larger ensemble is used to its full effect. Violinist Daniel Hope lends his talents to many tracks on the album and is featured on Experience, the song that has gone on to become Einaudi’s best most popular track.

Maze of Time cites its closest influence as Genesis from the "Selling England By The Pound" or "Trick Of The Tail" period and have a sound reminiscent of recent groups such as Spock's Beard, The Flower Kings, Like Wendy and Marillion. Though leaning more to the Neo-progressive rather than Symphonic, Maze of Time has virtues from the Symphonic form of progressive rock with lush keyboards, poetic lyrics and lengthy compositions.

Based in the Small City of Bauru in Brazil, Atomic Time completely breaks the mold with its experimental sound strongly influenced by Progressive rock and classical contemporary music. Their sound is incredibly peculiar, the result of a strong relationship between Pedro D’incao, (guitars) and Silvio Serra (drums) who have been playing together for a long time. This solid experience mixed with the infusion of new generations like the smoothness of Roger Lopez (vocals) and the rebellious Gabriel D’Incao, at the ever morphing keys. Though they are heavily influenced by bands such as King Crimson, Radiohead, Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, you can completely identify they have a statement of their own…

Manifold Records presents Summer Time Vol. 3. 22 excellent Chillout tracks compiled by DJ Maretimo.