Alpha Wave Movement

Gregory Kyryluk operates under the moniker Alpha Wave Movement. The project traces its beginnings to 1990, when Kyryluk supplied the track "Blink of an Eye" to a modest AM-radio talk show in Jacksonville, FL. Rhythmic and melodic yet largely unknown, that single nevertheless launched Alpha Wave Movement and set in motion an ongoing series of recordings. Throughout those early experiments in electronic sound, Kyryluk treated Alpha Wave Movement as his principal vehicle for sonic exploration.

The year 1994 brought the project's first compilation appearance and its initial commercial release on Silent Records' From Here to Tranquility, Vol. 4. In the period before the debut full-length album, Kyryluk worked to merge American electronic idioms with the Berlin-school aesthetic of Tangerine Dream, Ashra, and Klaus Schulze. By 1995, Transcendence appeared on his own Harmonic Resonance Recordings label, marking the closest realization to date of an original "über musik" that still recalled the electronic music he cherished. The album advanced toward the atmospheric spaces Kyryluk preferred, and his sonic investigations persisted.

Kyryluk guided Alpha Wave Movement toward an increasing emphasis on the cosmic, expansive, and introspective facets of his musical identity. Whether recognized at the time or not, this orientation gradually widened his audience. Around the same period he began absorbing both popular and traditional Arabic music as well as hybrid ethno-Indian works such as those of Sheila Chandra and Michael Brook's collaborations with vocalist Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. These sources made a permanent impression, inspiring him to integrate their rhythmic drive and atmospheric character into his own electronic palette.

Following the reception of Transcendence, further recordings in the same vein appeared over the next five years, including 1996's The Edge of Infinity on the Groove Unlimited label as well as 1998's Concept of Motion and 2000's Drifted Into Deeper Lands, both also issued by Groove Unlimited. In 2001 Kyryluk and Alpha Wave Movement completed a widely praised collaboration with Jim Cole of Spectral Voices, issued as Bislama. The work gives tangible form to Kyryluk's interest in Arabic and Far Eastern ethnic music, conveyed through a broad, panoramic stereo field that envelops the listener. Alpha Wave Movement and Gregory Kyryluk remain active.