Another singular volume in the congenial discography of Mystery Sea, the tiny, perfect Belgian label that lovingly packages each of its CDRs in intriguing abstract artwork complementing poetic liner notes.
Mystery Sea is an imprint for those who don’t see the world in black and white but shades of grey. Its entire, impressive catalogue lists heavily toward the murky depths, under a cloudy sky, awaiting the impending storm. Its artists, nearly each and every one either already enjoying or gaining repute and approbation for quality experimental ambient, eagerly embrace the concept of immersive music the label champions but comprise a pod of fiercy independent minds.
Colin Andrew Sheffield is a pointillist among ambient musicians, arranging variously sourced molecules of sound apparently pinched from commercially available recordings into drone mosaics. Slowly heaves into sight until it towers, but the gigantic shadow it casts is caused by the light toward which it reaches, a discreet and exquisite melody which gradually emerges over the course of its eighteen-minute, untitled opening track. The second roars in uneven sandblasts but floats away like soap bubbles. The third pulses rapidly with an energy just verging on nervous, and the fourth is its brutish, shorter twin. Common to all are the many, painstakingly overlain levels of sound through which a ghost orchestra moves.
Another singular volume in the congenial discography of Mystery Sea, the tiny, perfect Belgian label that lovingly packages each of its CDRs in intriguing abstract artwork complementing poetic liner notes.
Slowly is available on Mystery Sea. [Webshop]
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