Compiling all new mixes of Sonogram’s ‘quieter moments,’ Compendium makes for a subtly deep low-light listen.
Author: Alan Lockett
Pye Corner Audio :: Let’s Emerge! (Sonic Cathedral)
PCA adepts who’ve followed the project’s trajectory over the last decade may miss the signature purr and prod of bass propulsion and its dynamic; but they will find here new skin for the old ceremony, with fresh, or reformed, pleasures, wrapped/rapt as they are in diaphanous new configurations.
Rontronik :: Majestic Mosaics (Self Released)
Maneuvering through dilapidated ambient-electronics, alien concrète reverberations and clicks’n’cuts, data swirl and digital flutter.
Drape :: Forage/Presence (Infraction)
Clear space there may be between early and late Drape—Forage staying smaller, up-closer, Presence going wider and higher, post-production lending granularity to instrumentation…
Mount Shrine :: All Roads Lead Home (Cryo Chamber)
35 minutes of pluvial drones replete with soft white/grey noise and sotto voce spoken word possess a mesmeric quality that transcends the reductive description herein.
ASC :: Original Soundtrack (A Strangely Isolated Place)
While much piano-based music can tend towards the precious, laying over the listener an insipid blanket of saccharine sadness, or blithe brightness, ASC’s OST strikes a nicely poised ambiguity…