Disclaimer: I know Ade personally. Though I can’t handle crappy/mediocre music, from friends or foes!
“Visions” is Ade’s first solo album. Ade’s an independent musician based in Melbourne, Australia. The album is a collection of 9 beautifully composed piano pieces. My personal favourites are “Birth of Love”, “Sky” especially the second half of the composition, and “Rain 1″. The pieces are pleasant, relaxing, ambient but non-intrusive, and at times very inspiring (for one thing it digs out my wish to learn a musical instrument every now and then!). On average, each piece runs for about 7 minutes, and it is easy to sense the effort and love that has gone into the album’s creation. Note that although this is his first solo, Ade is by no means new to the music scene, having been involved in various events previously.
I highly recommend “Visions” if you like instrumental music. You can find out more about Ade and “Visions” at Ade’s website. In the spirit of fair use, trust, and freedom of platform choice (yay!) – Ade’s made sure the music is DRM-free.
Finally, only peripheral to this – but nevertheless quite interesting to geekoids and musicians alike – is that Ade’s Computer Science PhD is on Music Information Retrieval – so yeah, he likes his music 
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You can find samples (I believe of all/most tracks) here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/ishs
Comment by Kamal Advani — May 3, 2009 @ 9:52 pm
Thanks, man. Yes, you can find samples of all tracks there or at iLike, iTunes, Napster, Chaos.com, … and more to come. In addition, if you’d like to listen to two full tracks via streaming in my Radioindy.com profile:
http://www.radioindy.com/adeishs
If you’re on Facebook, you can get updates:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ade-ishs/66798892081
Comment by ade ishs — May 4, 2009 @ 12:12 am
Kamal has mentioned 3 of his favourite pieces. The following review mentions 2 others:
http://radioindyjazz.blogspot.com/2009/05/visions-by-ade-ishs-jazz-artist-from.html
Comment by ade ishs — May 8, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
Very cool man!
Comment by Kamal Advani — May 8, 2009 @ 9:46 pm
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