What follows constitutes, for want of time for exhaustive description, a representative sample of some of the year’s rich late harvest…
Tag: James Bernard
zakè & City of Dawn :: Ash (Azure Vista)
Like an extended gaze on the infinite, or the sound of chronostasis, Ash is motion felt at a Brownian micro-level of timbre and harmonic shift.
Zakè · Markus Guentner · James Bernard :: Pyramiden (Zakè Drone)
A dialogue is set up between the cadence of ambient drone and the cascade of post-rock (rock sublimated) with an array of textures and strata perfused in a kind of slo-mo wide-sky outfolding.
zakè & ossa :: syntheticopia (zakè drone)
Meanwhile, back in the chilly vastness of space, through the cosmic field recordings and analog electronics is felt the beating heart of the human, as syntheticopia continues to hum with hushed hymnals for stargazing souls.
MULTI-VIEW :: Past Inside The Present (in the past…)
Documenting the drift at the margins, a look back at Past Inside The Present’s showcase of the state of the art of ambient dronescaping, focusing on selected works from earlier in the year that may have gone under your radar.
V/A :: Portals (Behind The Sky Music)
Carefully curated by Evan Bartholomew (aka Bluetech), the album remains cohesive from beginning to end, and is a spot-on tribute to early synthesizer music—firmly rooted […]
Healing Sounds from Past Inside the Present
Out now on Past Inside the Present, home of all that’s good in Ambient Drone and otherwise: Healing Sounds II: A compilation for those in […]
Elsewhereness revisited #14 ambivalentine daze
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 companion mix, Elsewhereness […]