A very picturesque musical journey through introverted winter-like soundscapes which deliberately bring to the fore a certain sense of mysteriousness and sentimental brilliance. [n5Mailorder] Love In Times Of Repetition is the first full-length release of a dream pop / electro ambient duo newly formed by two musicians from Island. This astonishing and deeply moving collection [...]
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Nimh :: This Crying Era (Synästhesie Schallplatten)
This Crying Era is a gorgeously cinematic and ominously bewitching album that will ravish fans of the most uncompromising facet of the dark ambient genre (masterful works from Lustmord, Raison d’être, Never Known…). Absolutely recommended for beginners in Nimh’s dark ambient and mystical droning minimalism. Nimh is an avant-garde deep ambient industrial electronic project formed [...]
Demdike Stare :: Elemental (Modern Love)
Doubtless the duo would blanch if pigeonholed with labels like “dark,” “hauntological,” “drone” or “witch house” but there’s no denying their penchant for the arcane and unsettling, whether through bleak soundscapes Andy Votel’s supernatural and apothecary artwork or the archival, low budget exploitation movie images that accompany their live performances. What is it about Demdike [...]
Celestino :: Protector’s Tea (Love All Day)
Six very ecumenical, very clear, consecrated spaces. Just about every belief system has very simply criteria for the creation of sacred space anywhere, anytime—by convening a quorum, smudging the air, or drawing a circle on the ground. The solo debut of Gabe Celestino, an American in Korea, is a meticulously crafted set of six ambient [...]
4Play :: The microsound of Line
The four latest updates come from an impressively august roster led by post-industrial pioneer, Asmus Tietchens, and Lord of lowercase, Steve Roden, with luminaries Stephan Mathieu (+ Caro Mikalef), and France Jobin in strong support. Over the last decade Line has become synonymous with leading edge inquiry at the interface between digital minimalism and microsound. [...]
Nothing But Noise :: Not Bleeding Red (Future Noise Music)
Without ever dropping a drumbeat over its hour-and-forty-minute runtime, Not Bleeding Red still keeps the listener engaged and entranced. Analog synth, Berlin-school ambient from the founders of Front 242? Sign me up. Nothing But Noise is the name of this new project, put together by Daniel Bressanutti and Dirk Bergen, the latter of whom left [...]
Tomoroh Hidari :: Some Stars Not Yet Black Holes (Record Label Records)
Some Stars Not Yet Black Holes is an absolutely brilliant, deeply cerebral and moving effort that will ravish fans of electro-acoustic researches, kosmische synthesized minimalism (70′s Berliners) and absorbing dark ambient realms—an astonishingly profound, sonorous and evocative collection of slowly evolving meditative electronics. The Viennese based artist Tomoroh Hidari made a reputation thanks to the [...]
Clark :: Iradelphic (Warp)
Three years of traveling around the world, learning new instruments and his first real collaborations with more conventional vocalists have all gone into the rich tapestry of Iradelphic, and have truly bought Clark’s sound back down to earth with a rich self awareness and an audible hunger to really explore new things. It’s always a [...]
Five questions with Acre
“Acre is an Edinburgh-based label that laments the hole left in the electronic genre by Warp. Acre are audiophiles and vinyl junkies, putting out well-mastered and well-pressed dynamic records for the love of it.” Igloo Magazine :: When did Acre start up and what was your inspiration? Acre :: There are two of us behind [...]
Listening Mirror :: Resting In Aspic (Hibernate)
The music collected here is anything but dispiriting. It is the sound of a garden turning toward the morning sun and listening to itself—birds chip, a brook burbles, dew evaporates. Children play nearby. A duo for the first two years of its existence, consisting of Jeff Stonehouse and Kate Tustain, the former of whom now [...]
The Caretaker :: Patience (After Sebald) (History Always Favours The Winners)
Patience (After Sebald) may well appeal to a different audience than An empty bliss beyond this world, or Persistent Repetition of Phrases, so if you didn’t quite get previous offerings it is well worth investigating this one, a sterling addition to the canon that continues The Caretaker’s trend of applying his formula in new ways. [...]
Bengalfuel :: Sprague, Edgemere, Lowe, Toth (Hibernate)
Bengalfuel conjures a world where rather than some omninous singularity, man, machine and nature sync up with wit and empathy. Prettiest little mini-disc set ever, thanks to dandy packaging by the label featuring the floral photography of Joe LiTrenta, who is also a prolific video and film director. He and Lou Dibenedetto claim to make [...]
AUN :: Phantom Ghost (Denovali)
Phantom Ghost has about it a compelling elusive quality, as if evaporating when its solidity feels graspable; it seems to float, as if levitating, just above ground, attended by plumes of fog enveloping proceedings, mirroring the spectral figure and blur of the cover. AUN, project of Montreal experimental scenester, Martin Dumais, has evolved since 2007 over [...]
Yann Novak :: Presence (Hibernate)
Presence operates in the inbetween between unresolved and resolution, flirting with the chill charms of the unpitched then back, finding refuge in more comfily pitched material. Low-end looms cede to sudden subsides, then other kinds of radiation, drawing back from the edge of abrasion, softening in focus to warm fuzzy then ceding again to cold [...]
Five questions for Home Normal
Ian Hawgood of Home Normal stopped by the virtual doors to respond to igloomag.com’s Five questions profile. Learn more about this multi-faceted, independent label as it branched from its photographic inspiration. Igloo Magazine :: When did Home Normal start up and what was your inspiration? Home Normal (Ian Hawgood) :: Home Normal was formed around [...]
Perispirit :: Spiritual Church Movement (Digitalis)
For a record as borderline obliterated as this there’s a strange warmth that envelops Spiritual Church Movement, much like the sable trimming surrounding the oddly mechanical looking and richly ornamented gold filigree of the Russian Tsar’s skullcap on the front cover. [Release page] What exactly are the ingredients that work together to create a great noise [...]
Five questions for Time Released Sound
As Colin Herick states, Time Released Sound is “basically a beatless label focusing on ambient, drone, neo-classical IDM and pseudo-eccentric foltronica.” Find out more about this audio-visual boutique via our Five questions profile. Igloo :: When did Time Released Sound start up and what was your inspiration? Time Released Sound (Colin) :: I started working [...]
Tаlоs :: ∞ (Self-Released)
As Talos displays their visual-audio skills through this inaugural release, they’ve not only balanced stunning graphical works in the form of a TDR-styled book, but have also detailed an audiometric world exposing infinite bits of electrical data. [Release page] Keeping the delicate craft of electronic art and visual abstraction intact is Талос (pronounced Talos) with [...]
BROKEN20 :: 3View
These three releases (10-20′s Magnet Marsh, Isodyne’s Dreams Torn From The Sky and Nanorhythm’s Beyond the Green Wall) show Broken20′s faculties very much intact in their drawing together of fragments across the electronic spectrum from washed out wonk-tronica to headf**k techno. (February—2012) Broken20 is a nearly new label run by Marcia Blaine School for Girls [...]
Kemek :: Ultimately Always Remixes (Architects + Heroes)
Five alterations retaining the original’s translucent dynamic leaves Kemek in a good space—quite literally—filled with crossing wires, microscopic shifting and breezy ambience. Referred to as UA2, Kemek receives remix treatments based on his 2011 EP of the same title. Five alterations retaining the original’s translucent dynamic leaves Kemek in a good space—quite literally—filled with crossing [...]
Damian Valles :: Skeleton Taxa (Drifting Falling)
Valles expands the drone to orchestral proportions, as his field recordings, small bells, piano and guitar are all swept up into a string section, with a violin swirling out of the mass to solo half-way through before receding. The entire piece is far from destructive, but is rich in drama. Musician, artist and greengrocer Damian [...]
CELER :: 3View (Con-V, and/OAR, Analog Path)
Since Danielle Baquet’s passing, her talented partner (Will Long), now residing in Tokyo, has continued to release previously unheard material recorded by the duo and oversee reissues of out-of-print and early, handmade self-releases; at the time of writing, Celer’s list of CD, CDR, cassette tape, vinyl and digital releases has climbed well beyond seventy. [February—2012] [...]
JEAN-CLAUDE ELOY :: 4View (Hors Territoires)
Jean-Claude Eloy (b. 1938) is the greatest composer of the past half-century I never heard of. A profound engagement with the Japanese Gagaku orchestra—imperial courtly music—combined with lengthy schooling in the complexity of European modernism has given birth to a style that is all the Frenchman’s own. [February—2012] Jean-Claude Eloy (b. 1938) is the greatest [...]
Stormloop :: Snowbound* (Glacial Movements)
There are no great shifts to the glacial isolationist ambient paradigm here, but a consummate execution of a programmatic template. A little more than this, in fact, since Spence manages, with the quiet storm of his loop, to imbue Snowbound* with a metaphysical sense of something beyond within the chronostasis of his scenes. Snowbound* compiles [...]
Oxyd :: Liveforms (Signifier / Aliens Production)
Liveforms remains thoroughly engaged as it elevates thin veils of dark-ambient passages covered in nebulous sheets of chaotic beauty. Oxyd presents a darkened grove of Lifeforms-era FSOL—full ambient propulsion amidst slivers of percussion and meandering solace. Symphonic maneuvers through unlit corridors and a lost world filled with whispered echoes, random vocal samples and Gregorian chants [...]
Spheruleus :: Voyage (Hibernate)
What makes this Voyage, indeed our (listening) voyage, resonate is not the literal of the littoral, of dock to deck to descent, but the figurative force; its ripples and waves, pitches and tosses, the lulls and lurches of life and its times paralleled. The sea has exercised the Muse of composers over the years, from [...]