The sheer noise and grinding metallic clangs featured on these 11 pieces can be an earful; going to the farthest edges of all that’s come before, these are perhaps some of the heaviest and most fractured tunes we’ve heard from the Arizonian.
Tag: Field Recordings
Yellow Salamand’r :: The Best Of Yellow Salamand’r (Self Released)
Foraging through massive amounts of data and reconstituting them into byte-size recordings that have sporadic start and end points, The Best Of Yellow Yellow Salamand’r is a perplexing and dense assortment worth diving into head-first to unravel its mysterious trip.
Fractalyst :: Watchtower (Cryo Chamber)
This is theater, this is a type of dark story told by sound and I want to go back. There is something behind me now.
Ard Bit :: Music For Delirious Episodes (Phainomena / Shipwrec)
With ebbs and flows, subtle atmospheric particles drift and sway, calmly pulling us into its serene aural vistas.
Lav :: A New Landscape (Past Inside The Present)
While not exactly minimal, (as the songs sound quite large) the tracks are somewhat stripped back and given lots of breathing room within themselves, utilizing a less is more approach with great effect.
NOXIN :: Dream Sequence (Evel)
It’s a baffling journey, or dream sequence rather, where NOXIN takes us through unusual paths, fractured bits and pieces sliced into tinier elements, both structured and deforming before us.
IKSRE :: Awake Within The Dream (Sound Meditations, Vol. 1) (Lo Recordings)
The listener is able to immediately let go and shed the day’s dealings and walk into the tall grass with their hands at their side brushing the tops, feeling the breeze, and taking a deep breath. Consider thyself healed.
Gdanian :: Induction (Cryo Chamber)
The signals swerve, trapped forever between electronic space ambient and interplanetary sci-fi. The final chapter tells the tale, but the various preceding tracks of galactic movie magic theme soundtracks also are each and all awesome.