A vividly imaginative, organic, and icy ambient album mainly built on flexible guitar drones, detached eerie patterns and reverberant contemplative clouds of sounds. One blissful release that is greatly recommended for fans of early works by Eluvium, Loscil, Aidan Baker, Machinefabriek, Tim Hecker, as well as any relevant recorded material in touch with guitar-centric droning tones.
Nimon is a one man guitar ambient music project with a solid background in the world of edition thanks to a number of publications on the legendary Ant-Zen indie label (which has powerfully excelled in the diffusion of experimental, noise, and adventurous electroacoustic soundscapes since a few decades). In this new effort Keef Baker delivers achingly emotional, slow and heavily processed e-guitar reveries. With a slippery touch, plenty of subtle moves and glimmering drones guide the listener in a vast and deep bath of plenitude and inner quietness. The textures are densely layered, poignant, resonating to the confins. This album features enough sonic ingredients, a variety of timbres, and convincing compositional schemas to avoid falling in the trap of functional or softly-moving new-age quiescence. It pushes the whole cinematic soundscapes to a higher level of personal introspection—rhe slightly melodic nature also includes fragile and progressing melancholic airs.
All in all The Slow Atrophy of Hope is a vividly imaginative, organic, and icy ambient album mainly built on flexible guitar drones, detached eerie patterns and reverberant contemplative clouds of sounds. One blissful release that is greatly recommended for fans of early works by Eluvium, Loscil, Aidan Baker, Machinefabriek, Tim Hecker, as well as any relevant recorded material in touch with guitar-centric droning tones. As most of the works published under the Nimon moniker, this new effort should not be missed.
The Slow Atrophy of Hope is available on Bandcamp.
