Experimental Electronic Music
Derrick Stembridge, with over two decades of experience composing ambient music and scoring films and television, brings his expertise in crafting expansive soundscapes to this collaboration. Partnering with w-berg adds new depth and texture to the project, marking a significant evolution for both artists.
There’s a rolling, inchoate feel to Descended Hope that gives way to perceiving and understanding the subtler transitions in the pieces.
Welcomed by the superb quiet details label—responsible for classics in sculpted minimalist and lush dronescapes—Weeds is an other captivating, perfectly executed, and subtly moving, serene, granular sound experience for day-dreaming and serious meditative inner levitations affected by lonesome souls.
Caesura is a very listenable production, with consistent compositions and solid mastering; several familiar classical and acoustic sounds are infused all around.
Sacred Sorceress reveals a great dose of ideas and subtle variations, navigating between pure electronic minimal abstraction, evanescent meditative flows, to more grounded monolithic rock riffs. Some spoken words and a vast array of samples are also used to reinforce the cinematic aspect and to make it more impactful.
Two seasoned musicians covering upper atmospheric realms offer a reassuring, charming, yet fleeting escape with New Dawn.
A collection of cameos rendered in feathery tones and dusty pitches by Todd Gautreau aka Tapes and Topographies, Plumage’s sonorities, languorously looping and limned in treated effluvia, point to timbral and spatial elements as its primary zone of sonic inquiry.
instinct elicits playful blips and bleeps as structured found sounds are carefully pieced together, transporting us to uncharted realms.
Placing special emphasis on creating piano flavored ambient meditations capturing the moment, these compositions are splattered with improvisation and chance. Iván Muela is fascinated by the way technology can become an essential part of the compositional process.
Through multiple evolutions along decades, with a refined combination of harmonies, a deep sense of space, a phenomenology of time and bright sonic manipulations based on acoustic timbres, Japanese artists invite the listener to enlightened and intuitive inner promenades.
