Documenting the drift at the margins, a look back at Past Inside The Present’s showcase of the state of the art of ambient dronescaping, focusing on selected works from earlier in the year that may have gone under your radar.
Author: Alan Lockett
Tapes and Topographies :: A Season of Loss (Simulacra)
A Season of Loss may dally with dejection in its forlorn languish with loss, but the ghost is not given up, the balm of its vaporous tones comforting amid the mire.
Aria Rostami & Daniel Blomquist :: Still (Glacial Movements)
The stillness feels more like a cocoon than hibernation, and though no global pandemic or present politics premonition, the world today completely recontextualizes the music, making release delay serendipitous.
Biosphere :: Angel’s Flight (AD 93)
Featuring 12 tracks based on Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14 spanning the classical-electronics divide with a blend of electronica, hauntological sonics and modern composition, is no exception.
Elsewhereness revisited #19 soundsfromlockdown
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blather, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed ’n’ ’camp-ed up, with accompanying mix, Elsewhereness revisited […]
Monolake :: Archaeopteryx (Imbalance Computer Music)
Robert Henke returns after what seems a long lie-down with a bumper bundle of tech steppers and IDM flexers in his ninth Monolake album, Archaeopteryx. […]
Elsewhereness revisited #18 music for distancing
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blah, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed ’n’ ’camp-ed up, along with new companion mix, Elsewhereness revisited […]
Alva Noto :: Xerrox Vol. 4 (Noton)
While Alva Noto’s predilection for pristine sound design remains undimmed, Xerrox Vol. 4 sees a further move from his prior output’s buttoned-up asceticism towards more […]
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