The London based Elmorea has created a gorgeous composition full of microtonal pads intersecting and combining to make serene ambient tonal shifts. Non-repeating melodies held under the influence of the sound of sharp gates, tones dying and rebirthing in some new part of the universe. Heavy underwater / heavy fabric textures that would sound wholly …
In this beautiful reworking of “A Storm to Begin” by the Melbourne based artist IKSRE, the neo-classical musician Luminem draw out the inherent melodies in this gorgeous and swelling composition to add another layer of depth and musicality to this stirring track. Taken from the Transmission album of remixes from her album Intermission, Luminem’s contributions …
The Queens, NYC based multi-instrumentalist Andrew Cosentino presents this fine piece of plains-dusted, post-folk meditation shifts in subtle but powerful ways into more abstract territory towards the last 3/4’s of the track. Starting as a plaintive acoustic composition with tiny speckles of pedal steel, synths and banjo slides into a wash of ambient guitar tones …
It’s great to hear new work from the Italian based ambient / neo-classical artist Idra. Their album Nelipot was one of my favorites of 2019. “Frontiers of Solitude” continues with their heavy exploration of ambient stasis with flourishes of instrumentation throughout. In “Frontiers of Solitude” we hear flutters of plucked strings, piano keys sparkling in …
This may be one of the most beautiful things I have heard all year. A stirring symphony in miniature set on a bed of interweaving fugue and columns of bass, with strings that soar into the sky, way above the shifting tide. Fade out into oblivion-bliss with this video from Kumi Takahara. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slOi-q5-Vww
The latest video and single from the upcoming A Winged Victory for the Sullen LP Invisible Cities, is a predictably beautiful and stillness producing composition that revels in gorgeous drones and the interplay between silence and heavy piano chords. Tension is ratcheted up through the use of droning strings, but nothing quite breaks the serenity …
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Processing field recordings of the demolition of the Orlando Arena being demolished over and through a bed of low-end rattling drones and ambient tonal passages, the Los Angeles based duo find beauty, nostalgia and reticent acceptance of the need for destruction of a place where a lot of life happened. Beautiful and disarming dark ambient …
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Centered around a meditative synth line that sounds like sun glinting off glass in rhythmic timing, the Brooklyn based producer builds “Log I” into a subdued intensity with field recordings, IDM processing and intersecting ambient tones that give the entire composition a feeling of easing into a wide-open afternoon. Windows open music. Log I by …
The neighborhood of Queensgate means little for the uninitiated, un-chili fed masses not living in the greatest Rust Belt city of all time – Cincinnati. For most Cincinnatians, the neighborhood of Queensgate means very little. It was once known as the Kenyon-Barr neighborhood of Cincinnati’s historic West End that was razed to the ground. Literally …
For the past twelve years Josh Landes has helmed the highly influential noise project Limbs Bin. Nestling into the margins between oscillating noise and punishing grind, Limbs Bin records like Bliss Tech, Total Anguish and Summertime Blues have become blueprints for contemporary noise artists who value the ecstatic and cathartic immediacy of Landes’ performances and …
JOSH LANDES – PROVINCIAL ELECTRONICS (ARKEEN, 2020) Read More »