Experimental Electronic Music
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.
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.
Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close is a brooding and at the same time priceless contemplative effort for entrancing noises, velveting drones and revered guitar phrasings.
A felicitous confluence of two distinct sound worlds/whorls in a zone notionally adumbrated by texture-mappers.
Throughout the album, labyrinthine lyrical reflections are dispersed with dazzling images, blurring scenes in world history with the most personal album by Meluch.
The whole naturally transcends reductive description in deeper listening mode, from which arises a tenor marked by a kind of wistful unease.
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…
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blather, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed ’n’ ’camp-ed up, with accompanying mix, Elsewhereness revisited […]
