For all its sprawl of sparse landscape and sweeping skyline, it’s not so much grand gestures or big themes these peaks inspire Newman to. Rather, […]
Tag: Soundscape
Thomas Köner :: Novaya Zemlya (Touch)
Overall, what prevails is the strange affectivity Köner’s seemingly colourless tracts induce—their depth of field as against the disengaged ambiguity of Enovian Ambient’s play of […]
Yann Novak and Robert Crouch :: Fata Morgana (Murmur)
The narrative pay-off is then clinched by the entry of filmic synth-strings, knowingly poignant affective signifiers, tension moving to resolution as it makes itself comfy […]
Alex Cobb :: Passage to Morning (Students of Decay)
In a world drowning in ambient droning, Alex Cobb’s methods may be familiar, his materials no more than the tropes of the territory, but outcomes […]
Erstlaub :: Marconi’s Shipwreck DVD (Broken20)
Marconi’s Shipwreck emerges a tour de force of drone-scape shape-shift that defies possible imputations of longform legginess and single-take unkemptness to convince of its compositional […]
Pausal :: Forms (Barge)
Forms rather takes their patented minimalist romanticism and overlays components more subtly suggestive of biotic patterns and cycles, setting up a fine balance—of experimentation and […]
Steve Roden & Machinefabriek :: Lichtung (Eat, Sleep, Repeat)
Ultimately, Lichtung‘s places remain elusive fragments, memory residue, illusory referents of the intangible drift of the music and its field infusions. [Release page] On returning […]
Pjusk & Retina.it :: Double review (Glacial Movements)
Glacial Movements has not been entirely unwavering in its frozen isolationist brief. In terms of its original ambit, targeting ‘places that man has forgotten…icy landscapes…fields […]
Minus Pilots :: Hitting Up The Heavens (Eat, Sleep, Repeat)
Hitting Up The Heavens mostly does little other than drift and pulse gently in a kind of fragmented fluttering, fibrillating, serpentine, glassine motion pool (and […]
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