Experimental Electronic Music
Mogard and Irisarri sign a compact, intense work, capable of giving sonic matter an almost moral dimension, a request for attention toward the deep time of listening. The album advances like a great dark current crossed by inner gleams, and delivers music that seems shaped through slow fire, patience, rigor, vision. Where Light Pauses In The Silence Of The Sun is one of the highest proofs of their creative alliance, a work in which density becomes light and light, at last, acquires weight.
A return forged in fire, Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun transforms memory into a weighty, luminous architecture of sound that feels both inevitable and enduring.
With its long-awaited vinyl release via Soft Echoes, In a Few Places Along the River by Abul Mogard emerges as a work of immersive duration and sculpted resonance, where sound unfolds as a patient architecture of depth, silence, and inner attention.
With “Signals from a Distant Afterglow,” Rafael Anton Irisarri delivers a hushed yet devastating transmission from his album Points of Inaccessibility—a meticulously sculpted ambient elegy, released via Black Knoll Editions, that turns distance, decay, and disconnection into one of the year’s most emotionally arresting statements.
Points of Inaccessibility merges Rafael Anton Irisarri’s immersive sonic improvisations with Jaco Schilp’s dissolving point-cloud imagery to create a haunting meditation on distance, memory, and […]
Ten years after its release, Rafael Anton Irisarri’s A Fragile Geography returns not as a relic, but as a living landscape reshaped by some of ambient music’s most visionary artists. A Fragile Geography: Reworks gathers their intimate reinventions into a unified, deeply felt expansion of the original’s emotional terrain.
Abul Mogard charts a deeply personal and evolving sonic journey with the launch of his label Soft Echoes and new album Quiet Pieces. In this interview, he reflects on his creative process, from analog roots to a sound that seeks transcendence through texture and time.
As with previous volumes, For LA Vol. 3 not only highlights the creative brilliance of its contributors but also stands as a testament to the power of music in driving meaningful change.
The listener is transported in a rolling ambient vastness connected to natural elements and morphed field recordings, for a breathing, lively and emotional embrace which progressively reaches a mesmerizing climax.
Igloo Magazine presents Five Questions for New York-based Black Knoll Editions label operator, musician, and Black Knoll Studio analog/digital mastering Engineer Rafael Anton Irisarri to plunge into his experimental ambient sonic forms, and learn more about the label, mastering studio, and artistic trajectories.
Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close is a brooding and at the same time priceless contemplative effort for entrancing noises, velveting drones and revered guitar phrasings.
