Experimenting in the realms of blissful melancholy and soothing new-age atmospherics.
A lush, delicate, and grainy emotional album
Ecovillage is a groundbreaking sound art duet headed by Emil Holmström and Peter Wikström—both located in Sweden. This project has released a handful of fantastic albums which beautifully guide the listener to venture and journey across the natural elements of the northern region. Their sound sculptures embrace lonesome, subtle and pleasantly introspective drone-ambient spheres. Their back catalog is warmly recommended for those who affectionate day-dreaming electroacoustic ambient tales with a sentient direction and bitter-sweet melodies. I first discovered this project with their albums published on laaps then on Dronarivm.
Crescendo marks a slight departure from their usual sonic signature; at least from what I recall—experimenting in the realms of blissful melancholy and soothing new-age atmospherics. I presume this is mainly explained by the featuring of guest artists including notorious personalities such as Laraaji on the crystalline timbral acoustic “The Will of the One,” also featuring Jonas Knutsson and Oceananda. Slow micro-textures with a fancy for shoegazing altered pop accents prevail. This album shows a deeper research on voice manipulations and narratives, exploring atmospheric pop music intertwined with decaying glitch textures.
A lush, delicate, and grainy emotional album of nicely evocative soundscapes that will easily convince the most demanding ambient music listeners and those into the haptic electro sorrowfulness of Pjusk, Arovane, Anthene, and the chilling minimalist ambient introspection of Mary Lattimore, Bill Laswell, Iasos, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Harold Budd et al. Highly recommended for those who want to immerse themselves in rapturous clouds of sounds, as Crescendo is easily a classic in its own right.
Crescendo is available on Lo Recordings. [Bandcamp]
