Experimental Electronic Music
Mosaic is yet another valid addition to Fennesz’s already spotless catalog. Among the many ambient records I’ve heard this year, Fennesz thankfully reminds us of what ambient music can be when it is done in an original way, rather than offering the usual pulp of clean synth pads with some string arrangements.
Venice is an album that continues to work extremely well, even after 20 years. The combination of lighter-sounding loops with sounds that are more distorted results in a complexity of tone and texture as this remastered version emphasizes.
The listener is transported in a rolling ambient vastness connected to natural elements and morphed field recordings, for a breathing, lively and emotional embrace which progressively reaches a mesmerizing climax.
On Leaving contains a set of vintage variances, soothing drone tracks that are in ways abstract yet deceptively organic in nature. Minimal composition together with low pitches and recursive sets of sound contribute to this soothing effect.
This album of many bits of recordings, Travelogue [Bali], in many ways, seeks to honor the original artists and these fascinating spiritual communities, as well as create an interesting world house listen.
Sound, music, and glass exist as art forms of time. In this album, sound materials from samples of glass sounds are accompanied with field recordings, […]
Revisiting the idiosyncratic cycling sound eddies and steadfastly original catalog of soundsculpturist Philip Jeck, who passed into the space-time continuum’s Möbius strip on March 25, one is struck by his ability to regularly conjure a sense of tangible nonplace.
In a creative response to the challenge of the day, 20 new and exclusive tracks by Touch label artists will be made available over the […]
