Experimental Electronic Music
The Wishing Well by 2002 is a sweeping, cinematic journey that weaves myth and memory into a lush symphonic dreamscape, where celestial strings, whispering flutes, and luminous guitars rise and fall like mountains and galaxies, carrying listeners into a realm both epic and intimately hopeful.
Such an exploration might seem at first more fitted to harsh noise or the post-industrial genres, but the sounds here are lush and radiant, calming, relaxed. There is the pungent fragrance of death present, but it isn’t cloying, but something familiar and comforting.
Reverie is a tour of unadorned castles in the air, playful and strange vocals, music inspiring pleasant dream-like thoughts, expressed with wordless musical vocalisms, fluid speech-like syllables that might lack any readily comprehensible meaning, an extravagant conceit of the imagination, a lost sense of dreaming while awake. There is an extraordinary array of great talent here.
Thierry David explores the engaging balance between the accessibility of irreducible energy and experimentation or playful exploration.
The spiritual joy that the human voice, in whatever language this is, is very attractive. This is a mystical sound, I think it works really well in a mix of tracks, to shift context and take our constantly listening ears into a whole new direction using just the human voice.
A harmonious assemblage of emotional, calming, and effortlessly absorbing magnetic rhythms creating a symbiotic effect. Bass, breaks, and blissful beats to lull us into spring.
With a brief look at some notables along the road, Chang Terhune’s Music Mondays aims to shed light on both new and old(er) music over a wide spectrum of sound (and vision). This week, Mahmoud Ahmed—Ethiopian vocalist of Gurage descent born May 8, 1941 in the Mercato district of Addis Ababa.
If her Dead Can Dance duo with Brendan Perry has given them a unique place in the musical landscape for almost 40 years, she has also conquered a new audience since her interpretation for the Gladiator movie…
A baffling mixture of heavy bass, drums and drifting voices that pluck at the heartstrings once again. Two tracks that pack enough fuel as an […]
Will Andyhazy’s double review for Charm Days’ ambient organic electronica album Shelter and Glamaticus’ twinkling bells and subtle chimes of Dream Room — both released on Sun Sea Sky Productions. Charm […]
