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…
Tag: Ambient Drone
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.
Field Lines Cartographer :: Tone Maps (Quiet Details)
A sonic exploration of place and time, past, present and future, via synths and field recordings, Tone Maps is another exhibit in a growing display of prowess in crafting deep evolving compositions.
Zakè · Markus Guentner · James Bernard :: Pyramiden (Zakè Drone)
A dialogue is set up between the cadence of ambient drone and the cascade of post-rock (rock sublimated) with an array of textures and strata perfused in a kind of slo-mo wide-sky outfolding.
Daou :: Reverie (Rohs!)
Tape enthusiast from an early age, fiddler and twiddler with loops, synths and field recordings alongside his trusted guitar and effect pedals,..
zakè & ossa :: syntheticopia (zakè drone)
Meanwhile, back in the chilly vastness of space, through the cosmic field recordings and analog electronics is felt the beating heart of the human, as syntheticopia continues to hum with hushed hymnals for stargazing souls.
Viul & Benoît Pioulard :: Konec (A Strangely Isolated Place)
The whole naturally transcends reductive description in deeper listening mode, from which arises a tenor marked by a kind of wistful unease.
bvdub & Netherworld :: Equilibrium (Glacial Movements)
The duo explores not so brooding sonic textures in favor of fragile, intense, and transportive soundscapes of calm beauty, employing different sound sources from organic to electronic with the addition of grainy noise dynamics.
Drape :: Forage/Presence (Infraction)
Clear space there may be between early and late Drape—Forage staying smaller, up-closer, Presence going wider and higher, post-production lending granularity to instrumentation…
Mount Shrine :: All Roads Lead Home (Cryo Chamber)
35 minutes of pluvial drones replete with soft white/grey noise and sotto voce spoken word possess a mesmeric quality that transcends the reductive description herein.
2methyl :: The Breach (Self Released)
The sound artist slightly abandons the downbeat and avid IDM tendency of his musical textures to embellish his style of eerily fixated droning motifs and densely layered patterns.
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