Cresting over a brownfield under a chemical sunrise, air pushed by dawn’s first breath settles – ankle-high – around broken glass discarded tires. Kneeling you can peer through it and glimpse the river glistening like rhinestones on blue velvet. Storyinsoil’s highly emotional chord progressions, chiming tones from a self-aware guitar pedal oscillating politely and broken …
Martina Bertoni’s cello is a diving bell. Through it, Bertoni is able to plumb the depths of emotional trenches and unseen landscapes hidden deep below the surface. On “Elevate” Bertoni weaves beautiful lines over droning ambient passages and electronics that flicker in and out of the periphery. It’s an objectively beautiful track, one that connotes …
If your brain and ear is bent towards it, a plane ride is a treasure trove of sample ideas for ambient music. The roar of the jet engine, the constant mechanical clicks and whines, the murmur of passengers. All of these beg to be sampled and processed to create a textural, depthless noise floor. Composed …
Wielding a synthwave arpeggio with surgical precision, the San Diego based electronic artist pulls from linear techno, post-rock build-and-release and synthwave’s relentless forward momentum straight into the heart of darkness. It’s an affecting and inherently emotional track, one marked by an internal lift all its own. When the levy breaks in its inevitable crescendo, “Memory …
Drawing on an inherently nocturnal beat pattern, the newly formed duo of Mohamed Tarek from Egypt and Linn Östlund from Sweden pull from influences like Ms. John Soda, Lali Puna and Styrofoam to channel early-aughts melancholy IDM. “5AM” moves into some pretty dark territory, focusing on the separation from someone dysfunction. “Not even your demons …
What is it mean to hold someone’s else’s secrets? When someone has exposed so much of themselves that their reality starts bleeding into yours like water breeching a levy. What happens when you want it to stop but can’t turn it off? The Norwegian ambient-pop band Tuvaband ask these questions in the form of the …
Yung Pope – a prolific ambient and experimental artist from Spain – creates a haunting and surging track built up from a distorted and diffuse noise floor into a minimalist track centered around deeply felt piano lines floating a top a mountain of reverb like a lonely cloud. Recalling Tim Hecker’s work from Ravedeath, 1972 …
The lead single off of the recently released CD Reflections on a Dying Man out on our friends Doom Trip Records, the heavy cinematic quality and crescendoing intensity of “2nd Floor Studio” feels like it racing to some final conclusion. Recorded after finding out that his father had 6 months to live, Diamondstein returned to …
We’ve been told that when we die our lives flash before our eyes. The way that its been sold to us is that the narrative unspools in linear fashion – allowing us to follow its trajectory from birth to untimely four wheeler accident or Black Friday trampling. The more we are learning about the brain, …
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“Sky High” is the distillation of ecstatic joy. Led by Jane Bunnett, a long time proponent of Cuban Jazz, Jane Bunnett and The Maqueque have quickly made a name for themselves in combining afrojazz and Jazz fusion in an accessible and virtuosic blend. The sextet are able to come together with expert precision and allow …