OdNu, Mi Cosa de Resistance and mRn :: Southern Lands (Audiobulb)

Three ambient, sound-art, and microtonal projects united by a fascination with looped soundscapes converge on Southern Lands to craft a lush, multilayered soundtrack for deep reflection. While I was already familiar with the first two Argentine projects reuniting for this release, their collaboration here expands into something even more transportive and emotionally resonant.

A triad of ambient dreaming

Three sound-art, ambient, and microtonal projects with a shared interest in looped soundscapes join forces to offer a rich, lush, and multilayered imaginative soundtrack for the reflective mind. I’ve been mostly familiar with the first two projects reunited for this occasion.

Mi Cosa de Resistance is a transportive, emotionally powerful, and wistful journeying-ambient project that makes abundant use of nostalgically tinged looped textures. This collective comes from Argentina and has published a handful of releases in ultra-limited, often craft-based editions.

Fond of harmonic textures and operating with a well-balanced interplay between strange melodies and expansive atmospheres, OdNu is an original, multifaceted project also originating from Argentina (now based in New York) and well known to followers of Audiobulb.

Southern Lands is mostly a guitar-centric, cinematic post-classical sound odyssey that also gives space to a complete small chamber-music collection of instruments. Each piece drifts like a soothing breath, filled with nostalgia and inviting the listener into a state of weightlessness, pulsation, and then oneiric, meditative lightness. High levels of melodic delicateness interact with flexible electronic scintillations and guitar reverberations, sometimes seconded by wind-instrument tones.

All in all, this is an outstanding, dreamily introspective ambient release with a strong instrumental basis and a refined taste for sonic exploration. It is highly recommended for fans of the haunting evocativeness and meditative slow motion found in projects such as Hymn57 and Ava Rasti, as well as the organic-analog breathing sound textures of Benoît Pioulard, James Bernard, and the post-classical timbres of Clarisse Jensen, or the Arms and Sleepers palette with added glitch-esque sequences and touches of ambient country music (mostly from Island House Recordings). Southern Lands can easily engulf the listener in deep reflective beauty and a gently tactile, sentient movement. Without any doubt, it stands among the most melodiously infused ambient releases of the year.

Southern Lands is available on Audiobulb. [Bandcamp]