All I can find to explain what is here are endless crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations, a dark noir album filled with harmonic textures and creeping reverbs.
Reviews
Mantle of Gets :: Repr.pn Store (10-17) (Uchelfa)
These gentle, brief, and succinct soundscapes are resonant and melodious as they drift and cascade, enabling Mantle of Gets to deliver a relaxing piano-focused album that simply soothes the senses.
D-Fried :: Images Sur La Mer (Phonocake)
Images Sur La Mer is a two-part soundtrack dronescape that ebbs and flows into surreal textures, tones, and muted abstracts over the course of more than forty sparkling minutes.
Carpet Soup :: ESDI (Lectric Panda)
Erratic yet unusually serene, offering a glimpse into a kaleidoscope of off-kilter synth sketches, rough IDM underpinnings, and sprinkling mellifluous tones around the margins.
Jean-François Charles :: Tenebrae (New Flore Music)
It is, indeed, a record featuring collaborators from all around the world, from jazz musicians, to classical, to spoken poetry, there is a lot to explore, with each track also being an enjoyable experience—it’s not just variety for the sake of it, there’s a lot of effort everywhere here!
Dronny Darko :: Godless Land (Cryo Chamber)
What is the difference between abandoned and forsaken? Dark tension, pounding under sustained horror and tension. This goes on forever. We are tourists here, and can go at any time. Peering into the darkness, we linger.
Tonik Ensemble :: Music Is Mass (Touched Music)
The atmosphere herein simply spills over non-existent—perhaps even floating—boundaries with a surplus of instrumental virtuosity, roughened textures, and vaporous brittle tones that time shift and alter before our own eyes.
Erik Lankin :: The Icarus Album (Auteur Research)
This amazing work of Erik Lankin creates a new triumph, which I would place high in the pantheon of significant human musical expressions.
Music by the Numbers :: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg by Eli Maor (Princeton University Press)
For anyone who is interested in a primer exploring the basic connections between music and math, this is a good start and overview of the topic. Written in a breezy, easy to understand style, it stretches the mind while not tying it up into too many knots.
Blind Ruler Cursed Land :: Music for Firewalkers (Gladivs & Sky Burial)
A convincing album which can easily seduce avid listeners of ritualistic soundscapes where acoustic instrumental elements are melted with ambient-cinematic epicness.
Ạoris :: In Existence (Same Difference Music)
Jazz and neo-classically informed piano and Rhodes-like timbres take center stage across the nine pieces gathered together for this debut full length effort. Interlaced ambient textures and rhythmic melodies round out the sound palette.
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