With simplicity and efficiency, this album provides a series of cool, poignant, sensitive, and gauzy soundscapes built around the expressive potential of brass instruments.
A series of cool, poignant, sensitive, and gauzy soundscapes
For those not yet familiar with Kate Carr’s indie micro-label Flaming Pines, we must say that it represents one steady and regular musical venture embracing the originality of sound mapping, urban/green field recordings with an interest for sonic sound spectrality and mini ambient sceneries with a narrative inflection. tarxun and Siavash Hakim are Iranian based sound artists whose names are totally new for me. With simplicity and efficiency, this album provides a series of cool, poignant, sensitive, and gauzy soundscapes built around the expressive potential of brass instruments.
Obsessional, overlapping and never-ending looping textures are put to the fore sometimes punctuated by gray infused and detached guitar, minimal melodies, piano ostinato motifs and erratic field recordings. The listener will pass from intimate, fragile, desperate and gentle sceneries, a languid sense of nostalgia is floating all along this effort (as stated by name of the album itself, Hiraeth, in the context of Wales or Welsh culture, is a deep longing for something, especially one’s home). Fans of post-rock chamber music orchestra, early US minimalism (deep listening) and emotional ambient incantations will find here a profound emotional experience.
Hiraeth is available on Flaming Pines. [Bandcamp]
