Based in Toronto, Polar Seas is one indie label which stands among the best in the panorama of modern avantgarde-micro tonal ambient music.
Reviews
emho & Arovane :: Sonic Companion #1 (Sonic Dialogue)
The combination is intense and relaxing, which together create something singular and new, a conglomerate otherwise unknown and amazing. Art can be provocative, controversial, difficult and then relaxing sometimes.
Hyperion V :: Accretion Disc (Spotted Peccary)
This is not made for rest and possible sleep, the engagingly simple sound has an illusion of complexity and is interesting to take in because the territory is completely alien even to most of the other popular space music and mechanically synthesized soundscapes.
tmy :: Queen City EP (Perimeter Junk)
Its deep textures and emotive draw take us through tunnels of soundscapes and raw echoes, the grooves precisely crafted and stretched.
Robin Saville / The Leaf Library :: Siphonophore / Versatile Clouds (Handstitched*)
Whatever the destinations, the path goes through a multifaceted semi-percussive transformation, weaving melodic fragment elements and cycling through the continuum.
‘t Geruis :: Terre, Poussière (Quiet Details)
Behind ’t Gerius is Belgian sound-wrangler, Daniel, who’s hit on a hermetic audioworld at once delicate and distorted, refined and uncouth; sound seen as if through a glass blurrily, yet sharply—alive with microsound like a fungi forest close-up.
Ard Bit :: Field Recordings – 04 Balkans (Self Released)
The ambient backdrop Ard Bit waves as to underline the quiet and slow country life depicted in the field recordings.
Legiac :: Banisteriopsis Caapi (Touched Music / Phainomena)
I half knew what to expect, but was also pleasantly surprised as some of the most unsettling aspects of their work are placed right in your field of view; challenging sounds and structures…
Recent Posts
Music Mondays 014 :: Jazz Hands
Aseq :: Thrones (KOMBINE)
Panopticum :: Multisensory Metaphors EP (Polygon Network)
Rudy Adrian :: Beyond the Sleepy Hills (Spotted Peccary Music)
rinse.repeat :: A New Braindance Era EP (Clean Error)
CHXFX :: Rafter Castanets (Plastic Horse)
Lucus :: Vectorising (Adventurous Music)
Maps and Diagrams :: Islands (Handstitched*)
