A representative and well-crafted album of modern day ambient synthedelica with everything you may like regarding textured lush atmospheres which invite to explore the great unknown while being immersed in natural primordial stillness.
Somber peacefulness, tension, agitation, and dark sublimity
Cold As a February Sky is a quintessential album of shimmering electronic driftscapes designed by Galati (aka Roberto Galati) whose name is well known by passionate listeners of droning sound sculptures with an experimental edge. Galati previously signed and produced a handful of powerfully evocative materials for Midira Records, Databloem, and Psychonavigation. This new effort follows a quite similar stylistic path, mostly centered on massive walls of thrilling electronic motifs with a fancy for soaked e-guitar reverbs. Somber peacefulness, tension, agitation, and dark sublimity roll over the album.
Contrary to most abstract minimal ambient releases, this album is sprawling with dense layers of overdriving patterns, like we can observe in vertical and overwhelming chthonic sounding phrases of Lawrence English, This Quiet Army, The Star Pillow, Mats Erlandsson, Shrine (et al)—a surprisingly moving, sparkling, subtly noisy ambient album with a great depth of emotion. All in all, a representative and well-crafted album of modern day ambient synthedelica with everything you may like regarding textured lush atmospheres which invite to explore the great unknown while being immersed in natural primordial stillness. Easily recommended as everything published by this well-noted indie label.
Cold As a February Sky is available on Glacial Movements. [Bandcamp]
