With Blue Forest, Wouter Velduis has crafted such a handsome edition it’s like purchasing a framed piece of art with its own soundtrack slipped in the back.
Eerie as a Grimm’s fairy tale. Wouter Veldhuis creates the illusion of having captured the forest being played by the wind, skinny branches stroking huge tree trunks like cellos and saplings like violins. Shunning synthesizers, electronic audio sources and samples, Veldhuis has meticulously processed “pre-heard” (lovely term) found sound and field recordings to create a suite balancing the rigor of modern composition and the accessibility of obliging ambient with an dark undertone evoking the atavistic dread of being lost in the woods.
A film production sound manager with two previous solo albums to his credit, Veldhuis has textured subtle, symphonic drones humming with subterranean bass, over which floats a primordial mist of glass-like tones.
Although Organic Industries’ entire catalog is freely available on Bandcamp, the label, founded just two years ago in Hamburg, actually focuses on the physical object, with distinctive handmade design and packaging by Andre Gansebohm. With Blue Forest, he has crafted such a handsome edition it’s like purchasing a framed piece of art with its own soundtrack slipped in the back.
Blue Forest is available on Organic Industries. [Release page]
