Coniglio has made an album that honors the craft of earlier soundscape practice while carrying it into a private, contemporary meditation on cause, chance and presence. It is beautiful, grave, lucid, quietly overwhelming.
Author: Mirco Salvadori
LoMo :: 29526 (Neo Ouija)
29526 is a return under another name and, at the same time, a departure. LoMo delivers to Neo Ouija an album capable of conversing with the ambient techno tradition and with the more introspective sensibility of IDM, sustained by writing that is lucid, visionary and deeply musical.
The Bug / Dis Fig :: Ladybug 1 EP (Pressure)
The finest quality of Ladybug 1 comes from its ability to treat dub as an art of emotional memory. Each return of the theme seems to erase something and make it more vivid at the same time. In the leaner versions, rhythm becomes a heavy step through smoke, reverbs widen like liquid metal, silences speak with the same intensity as the impacts.
James Bernard :: In A Small Room, Decades Ago (Past Inside The Present)
In A Small Room, Decades Ago sounds like a return to the exact point where ambient ceased to be background and became consciousness. A warm, immersive, necessary record, engraved with the care of one who knows that certain machines, when listened to with love, still preserve the heartbeat of those who first switched them on.
Abul Mogard / Rafael Anton Irisarri :: Where Light Pauses In The Silence Of The Sun (Black Knoll Editions)
Mogard and Irisarri sign a compact, intense work, capable of giving sonic matter an almost moral dimension, a request for attention toward the deep time of listening. The album advances like a great dark current crossed by inner gleams, and delivers music that seems shaped through slow fire, patience, rigor, vision. Where Light Pauses In The Silence Of The Sun is one of the highest proofs of their creative alliance, a work in which density becomes light and light, at last, acquires weight.
Sainkho Namtchylak / Mirco Magnani :: Beyond Fine Lines (Undogmatisch / Fluid Audio)
Beyond Fine Lines belongs to that line of works that ask for trust. It should be received in half light, at the right volume, allowing the frequencies to work upon the body. Its intensity grows through sedimentation. Each listening opens new folds: a frequency that first escaped notice, a held breath, a sudden accent, a harmonic current crossing the sound field like an omen.
Marconi Union :: Multiforms: Ambient Transmissions, Volume 3 (Just Music)
Marconi Union seems to have removed weight from everything, allowing only the emotional core of the materials to filter through: soft drones, slowly shifting harmonies, reverbs opening like irises, barely hinted pulses, melodic glimmers that surface and dissolve within the same breath.
V/A :: 130.81 (Passed Recordings)
Passed Recordings thus signs one of its most mature operations: a collective, contemplative, rigorous work, capable of transforming C3 into a small sonic homeland, fragile and vast, familiar and remote, where time bends slowly and sound returns to being a form of attention.
Up to 23 :: An Apple A Day You Die Anyway (13/Silentes)
Released by 13/Silentes in a double limited vinyl edition, An Apple a Day You Die Anyway confirms the quality of a catalog that continues to intercept the most sensitive areas of Italian ambient and electronic research. And it confirms that Up To 23, now a trio, possesses a recognizable voice, capable of holding together vision and rigor, emotion and structure, darkness and momentum.
Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri :: Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun (Black Knoll Editions)
A return forged in fire, Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun transforms memory into a weighty, luminous architecture of sound that feels both inevitable and enduring.
f5point6 :: In Retrospect (See Blue Audio)
In Retrospect possesses a strength that exceeds the format of the celebratory compilation. It is a work of reordering and, at the same time, of renewal, a point of concentration from which the music of f5point6 emerges clearer, more self aware, more profound.
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