What I hear are experimental, textured soundscapes, multilayered fusions of digital and analog techniques, sparse haunting keyboards and atmospheres…
Author: Robin B. James
Alexandre Navarro / Caya :: Phases / Dream Vestibuli (Handstitched*)
Two engaging and alternative perspectives, focused on their diverse range of sound and melodic fusions. Navarro’s Phases & Caya’s Dream Vestibuli is a contrasting range of electronic-acoustic and organic sounds.
Underwater Sleep Orchestra :: Insomnolence (Cryo Chamber)
This album provides restful background music that could be enjoyed while waiting for sleep to take you, with a dark and spooky atmosphere.
James Adrian Brown :: There Is Space Under Your Seat (Castles In Space)
Heavily electronica-based utilizing analog synths alongside tape machines, piano, strings and walls of ambient atmospherics, often focuses on the analog side of capturing and creating sound in the real world with physical hardware.
Masayoshi Miyazaki :: China Life (Flaming Pines)
I hear a complex array of compositions that are brought closer by the worldwide common experience of those times, also just the amazing human ability to express things using sound.
V/A :: The 88 Notes (Series 2) (EC Underground)
I find that this whole collection is relaxing to listen to, with plenty of interesting sounds to hear, in lots of combinations and layers.
Frore :: Biome (Spotted Peccary)
Bubbly and deep, slow moving clouds of moving illusion. The long slow drones with beats sound like a primitive machine just running along, doing its cyclic routines as the surrounding scenery strangely flickers into the background.
CM von Hausswolff & Chandra Shukla :: Travelogue [Bali] (Touch)
This album of many bits of recordings, Travelogue [Bali], in many ways, seeks to honor the original artists and these fascinating spiritual communities, as well as create an interesting world house listen.
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