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…
Author: Alan Lockett
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…
Tapes and Topographies :: Modalities (Simulacra)
Todd Gautreau’s fourteenth outing in Tapes and Topographies guise, is a set of ten impressionistic sonic vignettes painted with delicacy in vaporous colors.
Grandbruit :: Adaptation (Élan Vital)
Adaptation adds to a growing back catalog, with languorous, looping motifs accruing through judicious entrainment into an overall suite whose doleful resonance is as strong emotionally as timbrally.
Field Lines Cartographer :: Dreamtides (Castles In Space)
Dreamtides is another widescreen work that plays out like a sonic dream journal, with vivid illustrations of unreal landscapes couched in slow-elaborated recursions of languorous synth-tones.
Werra Foxma :: Double vision — Morgen Wurde & Tis / autumna
Since inception in 2020 Edinburgh’s Werra Foxma Records has quietly gone about curating some fine electronic music, with two of its more recent offerings from Morgen Wurde & Tis and autumna getting an igloo ‘view.
Hannu Karjalainen :: LUXE (Karaoke Kalk)
Departing from the Enovian principle of Ambient as functional room tint or affordance structure for relaxation, LUXE exhibits the genre’s stylistic richness, not to mention latitude, in its questing navigation through diverse sounds and states.
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