A beautifully crafted compilation which is quite illustrative of latest development in slow-moving, reflective ambient music with vivid sentimental colors.
Now key actor in the production, promotion of neotonal ambient miniatures and other handy crafted sonic soundscapes Polars Seas are back to us with a compilation which gathers a bunch of sound artists, confirmed ones and new comers in the world of experimental music. The program offers deeply soothing ambiences, flexible toned textures, aleatoric sound manipulations, processed field recordings, always bringing to the fore a feeling of serenity and profound dive into affective, personal memories of a past era. Among those meditative and amazingly introspective dream sequences we can mention the environmental-arctic-cloudy glitchy ambiences of James A McDermid, Northumbia, North Atlantic Drift et al. Projects such as Hotel Neon provides a more darkened, brooding ambient path while Ian Hawgood (from Home Normal) provides an emotionally vibrant, introverted soundscape and April Larson delivers a minimal ghostly piece of opaque but intense static. I can’t name every participant but each one has a legitimate place here. All in all it is a beautifully crafted compilation which is quite illustrative of latest development in slow-moving, reflective ambient music with vivid sentimental colors.
A Light, A Glimmer is available on Polar Seas.
