Sometimes, leaning heavily on the synthesizers, more on the piano, sometimes melodies shimmer around the corner, just as they can be entirely abstract. All of this is done with one objective, and one that he reaches: to play some excellent fine mood music.
Tag: Ambient
Benoît Pioulard & Offthesky :: Sunder (laaps)
Eight interlocking tracks of floating atmospheres and blends of colorful clouds, recorded at La Berceuse (Brooklyn, NY) and Offthesky studio, Denver CO in 2022-23 with […]
David Newlyn :: Encouraged To Lose (Sound In Silence)
Each of these five pieces shows a melodic drift, slow, hazy and shimmering in the background. It’s like an organ melody set against the blurry tones of whatever else is happening, which can’t be easily heard.
Akuratyde :: Head First (Modern Conveniences)
A harmonious assemblage of emotional, calming, and effortlessly absorbing magnetic rhythms creating a symbiotic effect. Bass, breaks, and blissful beats to lull us into spring.
Bagaski :: Azalea (See Blue Audio)
With its harsh tones contrasted by a bright spectrum of sound, Azalea, also makes the perfect post-winter offering as the season draws to a close and the cold begins to ease that thermal bite. Spring is for flowers.
Generic Meds :: Subnautics Vol.1 EP (Self Released)
In the twelve minutes that make up this three track EP, Generic Meds discovers world sounds, deep ambient downtempo, and chilled atmospheres.
V/A :: Genome 4 (Point Source Electronic Arts)
The artists on the roster, each crafting their own fractured soundscapes, represent the state of experimental electronics in a decisive way as the appropriately named imprint actively pursues all types of visual-audio creation—bringing together a wide range of talented musicians.
Pjusk & Arovane :: Svev (Polar Seas)
This new album presents intricate, diversified and ultimately swelling soundscapes of magnetic grandiosity.
Rudy Adrian :: Reflections On A Moonlit Lake (Spotted Peccary Music)
Reflections On A Moonlit Lake is a meditation on freshwater mysteries and the delicate feelings of being at a lakeside camp in the wilderness. Rudy Adrian paints sylvan scenes with sound. There are no maddening blood-seeking insects at this lake.
Adam Wiltzie :: Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal (Kranky)
It feels almost odd to say that this is Adam Wiltzie’s solo debut album; Wiltzie has been working in various groups for over thirty years, groups with which he’s amassed a pretty large catalog, but one that was lacking his very own solo creation.
Kirk Degiorgio presents As One :: Reflections (30th Anniversary) (Lapsus)
Where there is no doubt is that Reflections was decades ahead of its time. This re-issue breathes new life into the tracks, reviving them to bring them back to their full glory, a glory that, thirty years later, continues to be absorbing, engaging and pioneering.
















