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.
Tag: Environmental
FMS-80 :: Lifestyle 02 (Rednetic)
Rednetic Recordings’ co-founder Joseph Auer glides us gingerly into the slipstream of the FMS-80 (FM Synthesis 1980) environmental / ambient / sound art of Lifestyle 02.
Benoît Pioulard :: Sylva (Morr Music)
Oneiric ambient drone and polaroid pop from Kranky veteran, Benoît Pioulard, on a first full-length for Morr Music. The sound of Sylva is based on the beauty and shapes of […]
Thomas Köner :: Novaya Zemlya (Touch)
Overall, what prevails is the strange affectivity Köner’s seemingly colourless tracts induce—their depth of field as against the disengaged ambiguity of Enovian Ambient’s play of […]
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 […]