Like mosquitoes caught in amber, the loop pedal has regenerative properties. Guitarist / post-grad music student Bloom / Pool has created a lush and golden-hued sound world on “Nectar” where guitar melodies double and fold back on themselves creating ghostly shapes of what they once were. The video accompaniment by filmmaker Shivangi Jain follows this …
Ural Mountains is a Buenos Aires based solo-shoegaze artist, so the decision to cover “Sometimes” by My Bloody Valentine should come as no surprise. Ural Mountains’ treatment and visual accompaniment is to drill down to the songs inherent nostalgic and sweet melody by paring back (and not attempting to replicate) Kevin Shields’ sheets and sheets …
STANLEYSTANLEY – “BESIDE MYSELF (AND LOOKING IN)” On the latest for The Ambient Zone, the UK based artist folds delicately pressed synth lines atop one another creating a teetering tower of song. Modular synth lines are tweaked to create sharp, pointillist runs through porous space between the brain and the workstation. Lovely, disorienting work by …
“Respawn” is a scorching slab of eliding drone and cicada-like melodies pushed far into the red clamoring for space from the German experimental artist. The visuals for “Respawn” is a perfectly hypnotic slowmotion-and-reversed footage of a bus and it’s passage through a crowded metro area. There is a beguiling simplicity that forces us to look …
“A lone construction surveyor navigates the mysterious lower level of a soon-to-be demolished building. Burdened with the task of mapping the infrastructure’s ancient network of utility lines and deteriorating foundation, he descends deeper into paranoia as his measurements begin contradicting his findings.” I love the way this video portrays the collapsing of inner space of …
Recorded in the rapidly ascending recording studio / performance space Tapetown Studios in Aarhus, Denmark, Mavourneen absolutely obliterate multiple sound barriers with their swaggering noise rock. Taking cues from Sonic Youth, The Fall, Bambara and early work from The Men – “Bliss” grows from a menacing droning intro to a spark of spit and violence …
CHARLIE STRANGE – “I FOLLOW” Centered around building and repeating vocal lines of unrequited searching, the London-based Charlie Strange’s reverb-drenched compositions filters the gauzy minimalism of Grouper through the ambitious dream-pop of Beach House’s quiet grandeur. Looped vocal lines, resonant piano and swirling guitar lines find purchase when they converge into each other, creating a …
CEDRIC ELISABETH – “TITRE SANS” A dip into the evolving and colorful world of modular synth buoyed by Elisabeth’s discernible progression towards structure and overall lift. Even in what is likely his most ambient of compositions to date, Cedric keeps every shifting pad, drifting drone and pull of strings towards a single focal point. There …
This Toronto project have created, in this video montage, a staggering tribute to a cursed life with all the resplendent chance and unintentional beauty of the one-and-a-million chance of being born. The track itself is elegiac. Smooth af saxophone creating an elegy for all chance unions and connections never made, cells unsplit, eggs unfertilized, spent …
This month’s label sponsor is Blight Records from Washington D.C. Earthen Sea – Grass and Trees Max Jaffe – Giant Beat Dax Pierson – Live in Oakland Arian Shafiee – Arabic Voice Palm Era – Suculenta Mor Air – Life Behind Glass The Phonometrician – Mnemosyne Michael Cormier – M-F zakè (扎克) – Orchestral Tape …