Diaphanous invites the listener to immerse in quiet, oceanic, delicate, and infinitely lush textures based on beautiful tone colors, velvet-like tranquil atmospheres with occasional glimpses of sorrowing melodies.
Tag: Past Inside the Present
Inquiri x bvdub :: A Life In Setting Suns (Past Inside The Present)
The album title of this duet of paired longform tracks from Inquiri and bvdub is perfect for the Past Inside the Present label. What is our past, but a life in setting suns? And what is our present but the hope for more sunsets and sunrises.
2view :: Tapes and Topographies :: Plumage (Lontano Series) & Rudiments (Simulacra)
A collection of cameos rendered in feathery tones and dusty pitches by Todd Gautreau aka Tapes and Topographies, Plumage’s sonorities, languorously looping and limned in treated effluvia, point to timbral and spatial elements as its primary zone of sonic inquiry.
Inquiri :: See You Someday (Past Inside The Present)
You can hear a lot of pure ambience on See You Someday, however, most of the time it is infused with ambient pop aesthetics, some big string arrangements, and straight up psychedelia.
zakè :: B⁴+3 (Zakè Drone), zakè & Benoît Pioulard :: eve (Past Inside The Present)
Double review for zakè’s B⁴+3 (Zakè Drone) and zakè & Benoît Pioulard’s eve (Past Inside The Present)—proceeding to windblown drones and bells tintinnabulating across the sound field.
T.R. Jordan :: Dwell Time II (Past Inside the Present)
There are many things hidden in these low dwelling clouds, complex tiny voices and bits of music with overlays of curved drone-like sustained tones that are overall positive and uplifting.
36 :: Reality Engine (Past Inside The Present)
As one of the most prolific ambient/synth artists to date, Reality Engine is hardly surprising as it’s a continuous work of widescreen modern ambient electronics just as expected.
bvdub & Inquiri :: Destroyesterday. (AY / Past Inside The Present)
A big emotive expression, experiencing and surviving the process of painfully breaking free of the past by extreme means, somehow always staying calm and quietly passionate.