Experimental Electronic Music
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.
Blurred Cities presents an engaging and brilliant sound excursion, crafting poignant pieces with a slight departure from his usual sorrowful dusty neoclassical ambient in favor of more hypnotic and discreetly beat-laden ambient chills.
Despite appearing to be downtempo in nature, Uomo Meccanico’s collection is powerful and beautifully crafted; featuring old-school electronica, brittle rhythms, and classic breaks. A well-rounded and blissful voyage.
Darren Harper and Ümlaut create one long dreamy track and eleven short fragmented listening experiences.
The album has a journey-like feeling, going from one place to the next, maybe as if crossing a mountain; the higher up, the less air and people, the music condenses, and towards the end, the more melodic aspects pick up again.
Always interested in how we communicate, music is the obvious medium, and speaking your ideas in another language is also interesting.
Todd Gautreau’s fourteenth outing in Tapes and Topographies guise, is a set of ten impressionistic sonic vignettes painted with delicacy in vaporous colors.
After covering several hundred releases in 2021, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged here. As usual, there are no […]
