Through multiple evolutions along decades, with a refined combination of harmonies, a deep sense of space, a phenomenology of time and bright sonic manipulations based on acoustic timbres, Japanese artists invite the listener to enlightened and intuitive inner promenades.
Tag: Post-classical
Alva Noto :: This Stolen Country of Mine (NOTON)
Standalone release of Alva Noto’s score to This Stolen Country of Mine, Marc Wiese’s award-winning film which explores the issue of state sovereignty in the face of predatory foreign power.
Marsen Jules :: Herbstlaub [2022 Remaster] (Keplar)
At a distance of nearly two decades, Herbstlaub resonates with the same melancholy magic, a-fizz with fertile experimentation with the tropes of two musical modes once thought incongruent via shiny new tools, ending up transcending its conceptual start-point.
Ecovillage :: The Road Not Taken (laaps)
Overall, this release is a necessary reminder that we have gotten too far away from the intended, natural, human experience.
Kyle Bobby Dunn :: From Here to Eternity (Past Inside the Present)
‘It’s about this place in North Montreal where I’d go to escape […] It’s incredibly beautiful, but it also filled me with hopelessness and a […]
Day Before Us :: Nihil Interit (Rage in Eden)
Each track develops its own atmosphere, sometimes mysteriously cinematic and underpinned by wistful melodies. Day Before Us is a French based project which originally blends […]
Speck :: Antiheart (Eilean)
The four pieces on Antiheart are rich and repetitive, like the seasons of the year, which in fact appear on the album, as Bondarev makes discreet […]
Willamette’s Diminished Composition
Diminished Composition brings sad-happy scenes painted in warm tones, strokes of drone deftly drawn. A new recording from Willamette, Diminished Composition, has just been released by Scissor Tail. The […]