Experimental Electronic Music
Stanza IV is the latest chapter in Benoît Pioulard’s ambient series—a richly textured collection of slow-moving, analog-driven compositions blending guitar, tape loops, field recordings, and synths. Deeply meditative and emotionally resonant, the album is paired with Stanza IV [Versions], a full-length rework collection featuring artists like Clarice Jensen, Arovane, and Markus Guentner, offering new dimensions to Pioulard’s immersive sound world.
After covering several hundred releases in 2022, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged here. As usual, there are no winners or runners-up as the lists are alphabetized by artist and selected tracks are featured on our Soundcloud playlist.
The whole naturally transcends reductive description in deeper listening mode, from which arises a tenor marked by a kind of wistful unease.
Out now on Past Inside the Present, home of all that’s good in Ambient Drone and otherwise: Healing Sounds II: A compilation for those in […]
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blah, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed, ‘n’ ’camp-ed up, complete with companion mix, Elsewhereness […]
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, complete with companion mix, Elsewhereness […]
