An ethereal ambient record that incorporates live instrumentation as well, more notably in the form of orchestral accompaniments with guitar workouts splattered throughout—and some occasional vocals too.
Tag: Rafael Anton Irisarri
Five Questions with Rafael Anton Irisarri (Black Knoll Studio / Black Knoll Editions)
Igloo Magazine presents Five Questions for New York-based Black Knoll Editions label operator, musician, and Black Knoll Studio analog/digital mastering Engineer Rafael Anton Irisarri to plunge into his experimental ambient sonic forms, and learn more about the label, mastering studio, and artistic trajectories.
Fortresses :: Are EP (Dragon’s Eye)
A very creative composer who isn’t afraid to delve into the strands of the past and present, threading surreal, evocative, and emotionally charged aural pathways that we will continue to revisit.
Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri :: Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close (Black Knoll Editions)
Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close is a brooding and at the same time priceless contemplative effort for entrancing noises, velveting drones and revered guitar phrasings.
Lamasz and Grandbruit :: Suivant (élan vital)
A felicitous confluence of two distinct sound worlds/whorls in a zone notionally adumbrated by texture-mappers.
Benoît Pioulard :: Eidetic (Morr Music)
Throughout the album, labyrinthine lyrical reflections are dispersed with dazzling images, blurring scenes in world history with the most personal album by Meluch.
Viul & Benoît Pioulard :: Konec (A Strangely Isolated Place)
The whole naturally transcends reductive description in deeper listening mode, from which arises a tenor marked by a kind of wistful unease.
ASC :: Original Soundtrack (A Strangely Isolated Place)
While much piano-based music can tend towards the precious, laying over the listener an insipid blanket of saccharine sadness, or blithe brightness, ASC’s OST strikes a nicely poised ambiguity…