Experimental Electronic Music
Masaya Ozaki explores various sound sources on Mizukara and then manipulates them into comforting or sometimes discomforting new textures. There’s various acoustic instruments that get played with, contributing to the album’s overall variety and different soundscapes.
Eight interlocking tracks of floating atmospheres and blends of colorful clouds, recorded at La Berceuse (Brooklyn, NY) and Offthesky studio, Denver CO in 2022-23 with […]
diary#1 delves into the very essence of human expression, capturing emotions that often lay hidden within unfinished works. Listeners will find themselves transported through a sonic landscape that resonates with the universal human experience.
Behind ’t Gerius is Belgian sound-wrangler, Daniel, who’s hit on a hermetic audioworld at once delicate and distorted, refined and uncouth; sound seen as if through a glass blurrily, yet sharply—alive with microsound like a fungi forest close-up.
The album admits a wide range of textures, field recordings morphed and treated with nuances and displayed with a massive sonic impact—immersing the listener in a vast river of emotions.
The delicate touch is omnipresent in his work, especially in the use of chimes and glockenspiel, but also with sound effects, such as a bit of delay here and there.
What I hear consistently through each track is a fascination for the drone concept, extended tones, often decorated by interesting and harmonious field sounds and counter tones.
Tomoyoshi Date is a musician who knows how to make warm music from a cold laptop. To that end, he uses recordings from a Diapason upright piano in the house of his maternal grandmother’s sister.
I especially enjoyed the fact that there is still plenty of room for more experimental sounds and that the delicacy is not the big idea here.
Gentle, melodic, and yet never too easy. Nakamura’s music has an edge; it stays away from the new age world or just be pleasing.
