A felicitous confluence of two distinct sound worlds/whorls in a zone notionally adumbrated by texture-mappers.
Tag: Ambient Drone
4PLAY :: Past Inside the Present — Awakened Souls, Tyresta, From Overseas & zakè, James Bernard & anthéne
What follows constitutes, for want of time for exhaustive description, a representative sample of some of the year’s rich late harvest…
Field Lines Cartographer :: Phases of This and Other Moons (Castles in Space)
Otherworldly yet strangely familiar, sometimes sounding oddly more organic than electronic, at once beauteous and mysterious, huge and delicate.
Kristof Bathory :: Humanoid Dystopia (Cryo Chamber)
This mysteriously cinematic ambient body of slowly moving pieces is mentally transportive and representative of a contemplative journey in unknown vastness and in the depth of the subconsciousness.
Pascal Savy :: Simulacra (Cyclic Law)
With its incantatory tranced-out noisy percolations and moody-esque pulsating minimalism, this album has something majestic and hypnotic which claims to reach the dark arcana of some paranormal regions.
zakè & City of Dawn :: Ash (Azure Vista)
Like an extended gaze on the infinite, or the sound of chronostasis, Ash is motion felt at a Brownian micro-level of timbre and harmonic shift.
‘t Geruis :: Terre, Poussière (Quiet Details)
Behind ’t Gerius is Belgian sound-wrangler, Daniel, who’s hit on a hermetic audioworld at once delicate and distorted, refined and uncouth; sound seen as if through a glass blurrily, yet sharply—alive with microsound like a fungi forest close-up.
Arovane :: Polymer (Quiet Details)
Zahn, though, never lets any innovation imperative efface the musicality at the heart of the matter; his compositions lie on a cline between minimalism and sound design in a melodic ambient zone…
Alva Noto :: This Stolen Country of Mine (NOTON)
Standalone release of Alva Noto’s score to This Stolen Country of Mine, Marc Wiese’s award-winning film which explores the issue of state sovereignty in the face of predatory foreign power.