Sensitive Chaos is

The first artist played on the first 2010 show of NPR/Sirius/XM Radio's Hearts of Space program

Atlanta Creative Loafing's Best of 2009 Readers Poll Runner-up for "Best Local Electronic Act"

KKUP (91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA) "Best Visionary Music of 2009"

Atlanta Creative Loafing's Best of 2007 Readers Poll Winner for "Best Local Electronic Act"

KKUP (91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA) "Best Visionary Music of 2007"

New Age Reporter's "Top 12 Best Ambient/Spacemusic/Electronica Recordings of 2006"

 

#1 on WWSP 90 FM Ambient Aether / Space Continuum show for April and March 2009

#2 on WDBX's Music from Beyond the Lakes show for May 2009

#3 on WXDU's New Frontier show for March 2009

#6 on StillStream.com for 2009, Top Collections (unreleased songs)

#7 on WWSP 90 FM Ambient Aether / Space Continuum show for May 2009

#8 on WVKR FM's Secret Music Top 20 for April 2009

#11 on KRSC 91.3 FM's Spectral Voyages Top 20 for April 2009

#11 on KKUP 91.5 FM's Mystic Music Top 20 for March 2009

WDIY 88.1 FM's Galactic Travels Top 20 for March and February 2009

#28 on KKUP 91.5 FM's Mystic Music Best Visionary Music for 2009

#34 album on New Age Reporter Spin List for May 2009

#50 on New Age Reporter's Top 100 for March 2009

#52 on New Age Reporter's Top 100 for April 2009

#65 on New Age Reporter's Top 100 for May 2009

Both Sensitive Chaos CDs are in rotation on Space Station SOMA FM and Stillstream.com.

Sensitive Chaos music has also received airplay on WRSU FM in New Brunswick, NJ, WBGU 88.1FM in Bowling Green, OH, Echoes, the daily two-hour music soundscape, distributed by Public Radio International and broadcast on 130 radio stations from Maine to California, WDBX 91.1 FM in Carbondale, IL, WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI, WRSU FM in New Brunswick, NJ, WXDU 88.7 FM in Durham, NC, KKUP 91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA,, Radio Despi 107.1 FM in Barcelona, Spain, and WDIY 88.1 FM, in Allentown and Bethlehem, PA, 93.9 FM in Easton, PA and Phillipsburg, NJ, 93.7 FM in Fogelsville and Trexlertown, WFIT 89.5FM in Palm Bay, FL, WRAS 88.5 FM in Atlanta, GA, KRSC 91.3 FM in Tulsa, OK, YLE Radio 1 in Helsinki, Finland, WVKR FM in Poughkeepsie, NY, and WMUH 91.7 FM, Allentown, PA

The latest Sensitive Chaos CD is Emerging Transparency, released February 2009. This second solo effort from Atlanta-based producer and performer Jim Combs contains six new tracks expanding upon the eclectic, electronic palette he established on Leak, the first Sensitive Chaos album released in August of 2006.

"Full of lengthy, dense, eerie instrumental bliss and a few selections that sound like happy-robot dance music." - Jeff Clark, Stomp And Stammer Magazine

 

"Another interesting and engaging ride on Jim Combs' blend of New Age, jazz and electronica." - John Shanahan, Hypnagogue

 

"A really stunning release, VERY well executed." - Darrell Burgan, StillStream.com

Combs re-enlisted Leak soprano saxophonist Brian Good for the songs “Fifty Light Years From Home” and “Bazaar Behavior” (which also features Finnish multi-instrumentalist Otso Pakarinen on synthesizers, synth guitar, and synthesized percussion work).

"There are a few songs on the new CD that date from the Leak sessions, and a few that were created and refined over the past year," says Combs. "This CD is kind of an homage a broader range of my electronic music influences, and brings in elements of electropop, Berlin-school space rock, and even a bit of avant jazz/reggae/dub. The beats are a bit heavier and the arrangements are a bit thicker."

U.K. photographer Andrew Lee supplied evocative photographs for the album cover art. Andrew’s impressionistic image processing and subject matter conveys a message of resource conservation that resonates with Combs’ political outlook.

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The Sensitive Chaos CD Leak is available at iTunes, CD Baby, Amazon.com, and other online stores.

"I highly recommend Leak for its inventiveness, its beat-happy effervescence, and its thorough lack of pretension, not to mention it’s just a flat out fun album from start to finish." - Bill Binkelman, New Age Reporter, December 2006

Echoes, Space Station Soma FM, Cliqhop IDM, StillStream, WFIT, CoolStreams, Spain's Radio Despi, WREK, KKUP, WDBX, WXDU, WWSP, WUSM, WTUL, WETX, and WVKR are some of the radio stations keeping the CD on the air recently. All radio/internet airplay and press reviews/info from U.S., Canada, U.K., Spain, and Finland is in Media.

The album has charted at #28 in July 2007, #32 in August 2007, and #67 in February 2008 on the New Age Reporter Spin list.

Performance dates and venues are in Info.