You can hear a lot of pure ambience on See You Someday, however, most of the time it is infused with ambient pop aesthetics, some big string arrangements, and straight up psychedelia.
Tag: zakè
Joachim Spieth :: Reshape (Affin)
Reshape is a collection of remixed tracks forming an engaging and soothing collection of works. With sources taken from various releases over the last 15 years.
zakè :: B⁴+3 (Zakè Drone), zakè & Benoît Pioulard :: eve (Past Inside The Present)
Double review for zakè’s B⁴+3 (Zakè Drone) and zakè & Benoît Pioulard’s eve (Past Inside The Present)—proceeding to windblown drones and bells tintinnabulating across the sound field.
4PLAY :: Past Inside the Present — Awakened Souls, Tyresta, From Overseas & zakè, James Bernard & anthéne
What follows constitutes, for want of time for exhaustive description, a representative sample of some of the year’s rich late harvest…
zakè & City of Dawn :: Ash (Azure Vista)
Like an extended gaze on the infinite, or the sound of chronostasis, Ash is motion felt at a Brownian micro-level of timbre and harmonic shift.
Zakè · Markus Guentner · James Bernard :: Pyramiden (Zakè Drone)
A dialogue is set up between the cadence of ambient drone and the cascade of post-rock (rock sublimated) with an array of textures and strata perfused in a kind of slo-mo wide-sky outfolding.
Mike Lazarev :: Sacred Tonalities (Past Inside the Present)
Sounding simultaneously natural and digital, Lazarev has expertly blended field recordings and atmospheres with his warm, synthesized compositions resulting in the feeling of one, fluid, organic whole rather than separate elements and layers fighting for space.
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2022
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.
Recent Posts
Hollie Kenniff :: For Forever (Nettwerk / Imaginary North)
OktoRed :: Michigan & Rosa EP (Satellite Trax)
Zachary Gray :: Trippin’ / In Arrears (A Person Disguised as People)
Stone Leaf :: SEISMOS (Detroit Underground)
Orbital Patterns :: Extended Impostor Syndrome (Artificial Owl Recordings)
HERZEL :: See² (Evel)
V/A :: Electronics Memoriae II (Giano Electronics)
V/A :: I Only Like Difficult Art (and music) (DAAM)
