Experimental Electronic Music
The conceptual foundation of Herts draws from the tragic, heroic, and ritualistic aspects of soldiers’ behavior as they confront situations where their lives are constantly at risk, their foundations are destabilized, and the ever-present shadow of death looms over them.
Defined by an intricate layering of instruments, particularly within the classical music realm, which are then transformed and reshaped through the use of vintage electronic devices, adding a unique depth and texture to the acoustic arrangements.
The emotional resonances of this album would seem to be marred by writing a review that cannot, by its very nature, encompass the fluxing changes of musical flow and depth captured on 13. Just listen to it and be swept into a world that’s always changing, fates of people and nations rising and falling. This is something we should be unconcerned about, and instead offer our trust, care and love back to the world.
Unveiled Lights’ tapestry of sounds will ravish fans of silky drone tones and spacious electronic sonorities from Lull, Vidna Obmana, Phelios, Steve Roach, Ajna, Forest Fang, Numina, and Caul.
An ethnography of shifting emotional terrain rendered in murky sketches by TJ Dumser, who has already brought a range of ambient expression to his developing back catalog, most notably with main project, Six Missing, and latest EP, Gentle Breath.
These atmospheric post rock soundscapes, dark ambient-acoustic and organic sound design, are somehow breaking free after being buried long ago and the woods grew over the top. Here is found the dark wooded album, Sylvan.
James Long’s flexible and creative sound-scrapes have become a benchmark within IDM’s expansive realm of abstract musical—and non-musical—explorations.
Black Dahlia is a relentless sonic departure and nuanced droning record of ominous, ecstatic and sublime fractures that will certainly appear among best albums of the year for lovers of adventurous music with ascending spiritual motifs.
The result is more cryptic and hermetic than the previous release with a vast palette of aleatoric sound manipulations and sensient immersion in rituals taken from everyday life.
Rontronik’s taste for noisy textures and atmospheric shines on Zero Nine. Although in terms of composition, the album runs smoothly, its production is solid enough to demonstrate a good sense of timbre, and the sound palette he chooses to highlight is astounding.
