Moonshadows is dedicated to the most impressionistic, oceanic-tinged, and neoclassical dimension of his music. The pieces are built around the piano’s delicate, gently moving, semi-improvised detached melodies. Repetition, stillness, and peacefulness form a body of feelings.
Soothing, cloud-like sculpted electronic waves
Sound in Silence is one active label from Greece with a particular interest in grounding ambient music and slowly moving electronica with a melodious, cozy heart, and occasionally with incursions into micro-noise experimentalism. Numerous craft-based editions have seen the light over the years, with the participation of sound artists rooted in engaging and slowly evolving atmospheric music. Among others, we can notice yellow6, Marta Mist, Hessien, Halftribe, and Will Bolton. I’ve been following with attention the publications this label offers in order to complement my interest in new and modern sonic excursions.
Ludvig Cimbrelius is a Sweden-based and skilled sound artist who has published a few albums for Sound in Silence under his own name, but his back catalogue is mostly known to a wider ambient music audience thanks to his projects Purl and eternell. I first discovered his material under the moniker Purl, characterized by delicately shifting ambiences, occasional hypno-ish minimal pulsating grooves flowing through meandering textures, elegant, emotional, and journeying at once. For beginners who want to start with his substantial music production, you can check, for instance, an album such as Stillpoint, released by Silent Season, or materials from A Strangely Isolated Place.
Repetition, stillness, and peacefulness ::
Moonshadows is dedicated to the most impressionistic, oceanic-tinged, and neoclassical dimension of his music. The pieces are built around the piano’s delicate, gently moving, semi-improvised detached melodies. Repetition, stillness, and peacefulness form a body of feelings. Soothing, cloud-like sculpted electronic waves envelop the fragile piano touches, as in the beautiful and nostalgic “Hearing Your Voice in the Wind.”
Soothing, organic, graceful, acoustic, and chill-out ambient music fans can easily be seduced by this new album, which admits clear affinities with the piano soundscapes and long-form pieces of Jason van Wyk, Hatakeyama, Mike Lazarev, Stefano Guzzetti, Nobuto Suda, Olan Mill, and Jogging House. Recommended background music for your meditative, reflective, reading, or hiking moments in a solitary state, or simply while contemplating life under the night sky.
Moonshadows is available on Sound in Silence. [Bandcamp]
