Experimental Electronic Music
Jason van Wyk’s Horizon, released on n5MD, is a quietly radiant ambient EP that revisits material from Inherent not as nostalgia, but as a slow, contemplative reimagining that deepens his reputation as one of the genre’s most emotionally precise voices.
Rusted in the Salt Air is a deeply atmospheric sonic journey that blends natural field recordings from the windswept Suffolk coast with lush, slow-burning electronic textures created using vintage synthesizers and spring reverb. Inspired by the haunting landscapes of Orford Ness and the literary reflections in Sebald’s Rings of Saturn, the album evokes themes of decay, memory, and transformation through immersive soundscapes rich with birdsong, wave wash, and ghostly drones.
Fragile Peaks is a deeply engaging (in the sense of the quality of engagement being ‘deep’) slow burner, though that descriptor might misrepresent the intensity of a piece that, fire-wise, is more of a smoulder—a low-lit one at that.
The 5-track release entitled Faith brings deep peace and beauty in the form of music, which the listener can easily relate to film scores as a rich set of scene imagery comes to mind automatically.
You can see things come and go, slowly, your ears filtering a view into the past, but all there is to claim contains only a mirage and fog. Keep watching a landscape that never seems to change but it probably does.
A suite of tracks exploring the impermanent sound objects and their evolution across time and into silence, bringing glitchy, ambient, microsound, experimental, avant-garde, modern classical, creation decay.
The album flows in a crisp loop influenced and foggy slow motion ritual to repeat, for me it slows things down in an interesting way.
Overall, this release is a necessary reminder that we have gotten too far away from the intended, natural, human experience.
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Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blah, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed ’n’ ’camp-ed up, complete with new companion […]
