There seem to be more vertiginous twists, added dimensions, not deriving from textural or instrumental paradigm shift, more from long steeping in the same materials, […]
Tag: Ambient
Treah Sektori :: Sorieh (Cyclic Law)
Soriehl delivers an outstanding and tumultuous collection of demonic-entrancing soundscapes made of deep sonorous synth waves, monochordal choir laments, isolationist detached guitar patterns, breathy murmuring […]
Celer :: Rags of Contentment (Dronarivm)
Ragas of calm, resignation to luscious ennui and irrepressible resolve. The record apparently brings to mind Nepal and Eno’s Discreet Music for Will Long, and […]
Displacer :: Foundation (Hymen)
A mixture of solids, liquids and opaque gases, each piece rattles effortlessly as a series of ingredients melt together in a fuzzy subatomic layer. Submerging […]
Tineidae :: Lights (Tympanik Audio)
Listened to start to finish, through headphones and at volume on speakers, there’s not a track out of place, nor, to Tineidae’s credit, is there […]
KWJAZ :: KWJAZ (Not Not Fun)
An uneasy-listening analogue bubblebath, more remnants of the recent past but stretched, dubbed and arranged with consummate skill into delicious alienations of the familiar. Another […]
Wes Willenbring / Markus Mehr / Slow Dancing Society :: 3view (Hidden Shoal)
A true quality imprint, Perth-based Hidden Shoal Recordings doesn’t release reams of material but rather important material. Four, five or six times a year, cultivating […]
Arthur Dent & Deeper Than Space :: Drift (Architects + Heroes)
Drift is a very convincing effort made of meticulously elaborated sound tapestries. Fractal-molecular electronic soundscapes in total immersion. [Release page] Architects + Heroes Records are […]
r.roo :: mgnovenie (Tympanik Audio)
The dominant emotion on display in the album is a contemplative moodiness—most tracks are led by acoustic piano melodies, which often interweave with subtly manipulated […]
Steve Roden & Machinefabriek :: Lichtung (Eat, Sleep, Repeat)
Ultimately, Lichtung‘s places remain elusive fragments, memory residue, illusory referents of the intangible drift of the music and its field infusions. [Release page] On returning […]
Pillowdiver :: Cassette Recordings (Analogpath)
The sensation of proximity and precision is often dazzling—hiding in his sound hunter’s blind, he has conjured nature unaware of being observed and tethered its […]
















