At First Light is a subtle invitation to navigate through cloudy, frosty, fragile, subjective and impressionistic soundscapes with a fancy for turntablism and hauntology. Shimmering Moods […]
Tag: Drone
Keith Berry :: Elixir (Invisible Birds)
‘From the more visible we must turn now towards the increasingly less visible which is also most revealing and most true’ (Philippe Jaccottet, Landscapes with Absent […]
Lawrence English :: Cruel Optimism (Room40)
The album is developed as one long epic atmospheric suite where soothing peaceful passages are punctuated by vertiginous emotional moments of melancholic beauty. Lawrence English […]
North Atlantic Drift :: Departures, Vol. 1 (Polar Seas) & Video premiere
An invitation to flow through ethereal streams and to adopt a contemplative listening posture. Easily recommended for fans of emotional and organic ambient sculptures. Through […]
Elsewhereness revisited #4 appetite for distraction
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed, and ’camp-ed up, complete with companion mix, Elsewhereness revisited […]
Nonima :: Recur (Section 27)
Recur is chock-full of mechanically-infused electronic mayhem that is ever so lightly shielded by its tranquilized downtrodden shimmer. Section 27 founder Nonima (aka Tam Ferrans) […]
Haunted Me :: Plague (Self-Released)
A beautiful noise ambient release dominated by soaring guitars and diverse acoustic sound manipulations. Haunted Me is a young droned-out / post rockin’ and one-man […]
Sone Urbia :: Theros (Helikon)
Two tracks of blackened industrial ambience, tarred techno smeared with soot. Alienating and undeniably estranging, Sone Urbia’s music seeks the negative side of the spectrum. The […]
Sceptre Fretpen :: PLUGH (Sparkwood)
PLUGH carefully unwraps (these) introspective, nuanced and alluring downtempo/ambient flurries. A soundtrack haven for questioning souls on this circular cosmic spot. Delve into electrical fields and […]
Robert Rich :: Premonitions / Vestiges (Vinyl-on-Demand / Soundscape Productions)
Robert Rich’s restless spirit still retains a collagist’s wicked sense of the surreal, how to both jostle and juxtapose sounds and enhance the molecular divisions between […]
Murkok :: So Little Music (Shimmering Moods)
A beautifully evocative album in the downtempo and dream ambient genre. Loyal to its stylistic trademark, Shimmering Moods Records are back with three new releases to […]











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