Wil Bolton :: South of the Lake (quiet details)

Warmly recommended for those who are into textural, timbral, sculpted, and discreetly melodic minimal ambient works forged by Harold Budd, Robert Rich, Vidna Obmana, and Hiroshi Yoshimura.

A meticulously crafted soothing ambient release

The name of Wil Bolton sounds familiar for a majority of followers and lovers of modern day adventurous ambient music. This sound artist has a substantial catalog and signed his materials for a myriad of valuable indie labels in touch with reflective electronic music, microtonalism, lowercase, and ambient sound mapping. Too many to be named but we can mention a few; among other albums, the preciously melancholic and semi-classical orchestrated micro ambient-ish Marram (Fluid Audio, 2015) and Like Floating Leaves (laaps, 2023). With South of the Lake, inevitable contemplative sound artists from the digital era come to mind for the shrouded and diaphanous soundscapes: Olan Mill, Yui Onodera, Taylor Deupree, Tobias Hellkvist, and many others who design and celebrate balmy and transportive electronic pads and solemn sonorous melodies.

South of the Lake is a meticulously crafted soothing ambient release where processed micro-sounds and green field recordings interact with meandering textures and almost glitch-esque bass lines, everything floating in a vast and sentient spaciness. Imagine On Land by Brian Eno shifted into a more Zen-like conceptual aesthetic background where spiritual energy flows in a beautiful garden of essences and you will approximately have an idea. The album works like a solitary promenade on an oasis of lush textures and opal colors; a mind trip in search of a new arcadia.

Warmly recommended for those who are into textural, timbral, sculpted, and discreetly melodic minimal ambient works forged by Harold Budd, Robert Rich, Vidna Obmana, and Hiroshi Yoshimura.

“South of the Lake, inspired by a journey around South Korea, finds Wil in wonderfully reflective and serene mood, a perfect way to begin another journey around the Sun.”

South of the Lake is available on quiet details. [Bandcamp]