Category Archives: Ambient
Secret Pyramid ~ Distant Works II
Secret Pyramid’s music is a ghostly echo. Phantom shapes and an array of silky, diluted watercolors can be found inside, but they’re faint and always indistinct. Its period is always in question, too, because it floats just out of time, sailing
Secret Pyramid ~ Distant Works II
Secret Pyramid’s music is a ghostly echo. Phantom shapes and an array of silky, diluted watercolors can be found inside, but they’re faint and always indistinct. Its period is always in question, too, because it floats just out of time, sailing
Hakobune ~ Apsidal Motion / Chihei Hatakeyama & Corey Fuller ~ Euphotic
Takahiro Yorifuju’s music is soothing and supple, but new heights are reached on the single, 42 minute Apsidal Motion. Inspired by the starlit sky of Nigata and the countryside of Japan, Apsidal Motion is a dreamy delight. Above all, it’s beautiful music, and we
Hakobune ~ Apsidal Motion / Chihei Hatakeyama & Corey Fuller ~ Euphotic
Takahiro Yorifuju’s music is soothing and supple, but new heights are reached on the single, 42 minute Apsidal Motion. Inspired by the starlit sky of Nigata and the countryside of Japan, Apsidal Motion is a dreamy delight. Above all, it’s beautiful music, and we
Tape Loop Orchestra ~ Go Straight Towards The Light Of All That You Love
Lighter than its predecessor, In A Lonely Place (2012), and more in tune with its true self, Go Straight Towards The Light Of All That You Love is another essential release from Tape Loop Orchestra. The underlying sadness isn’t an issue
Tape Loop Orchestra ~ Go Straight Towards The Light Of All That You Love
Lighter than its predecessor, In A Lonely Place (2012), and more in tune with its true self, Go Straight Towards The Light Of All That You Love is another essential release from Tape Loop Orchestra. The underlying sadness isn’t an issue
Shimmering Moods: Sapphirine Phlant ~ Until The Light Takes Us / Ian Martin ~ Notations of the Form
Recently, Amsterdam’s Shimmering Moods Records has shifted and morphed into something else. It now (for the time being, at least) presses instead of leans towards a darker ambient styling. It hasn’t quite reached the fathoms of doom drone or the ambient sound
Shimmering Moods: Sapphirine Phlant ~ Until The Light Takes Us / Ian Martin ~ Notations of the Form
Recently, Amsterdam’s Shimmering Moods Records has shifted and morphed into something else. It now (for the time being, at least) presses instead of leans towards a darker ambient styling. It hasn’t quite reached the fathoms of doom drone or the ambient sound
An Eilean Spring (Part III): Uwe Zahn, Porya Hatami & Darren McClure
Eilean Records is only releasing one album in May, a collaborative effort that brings together three different artists from three different nations: Uwe Zahn/Arovane (Germany), Porya Hatami (Iran) and Darren McClure (Japan). Each has a specific field of expertise, ranging from
An Eilean Spring (Part III): Uwe Zahn, Porya Hatami & Darren McClure
Eilean Records is only releasing one album in May, a collaborative effort that brings together three different artists from three different nations: Uwe Zahn/Arovane (Germany), Porya Hatami (Iran) and Darren McClure (Japan). Each has a specific field of expertise, ranging from
An Eilean Spring (Part II): Daniel K. Bohm & Phi Bui
Eilean Records continues to investigate its experimental side with its third and fourth releases of the season: a mysterious outing from Daniel K. Böhm and an elaborate, cross-genre debut from Phi Bui. Daniel K. Böhm’s Carrier comes with a carefully constructed fictional back
An Eilean Spring (Part II): Daniel K. Bohm & Phi Bui
Eilean Records continues to investigate its experimental side with its third and fourth releases of the season: a mysterious outing from Daniel K. Böhm and an elaborate, cross-genre debut from Phi Bui. Daniel K. Böhm’s Carrier comes with a carefully constructed fictional back
An Eilean Spring (Part I): Jason Van Wyk & Chris Dooks
One of our favorite labels of 2015 continues to come on strong in 2016. The difference this year is that the label has made a conscious effort to expand its sound palette. Spring’s releases begin in the ambient vein, but
An Eilean Spring (Part I): Jason Van Wyk & Chris Dooks
One of our favorite labels of 2015 continues to come on strong in 2016. The difference this year is that the label has made a conscious effort to expand its sound palette. Spring’s releases begin in the ambient vein, but
Hummingbird ~ Glade
Six years ago, I reviewed Our Fearful Symmetry, a gorgeous album by a mysterious ambient artist called Hummingbird. I led an exhaustive search to discover who the artist might be, and came so close that I named some of the artist’s
Hummingbird ~ Glade
Six years ago, I reviewed Our Fearful Symmetry, a gorgeous album by a mysterious ambient artist called Hummingbird. I led an exhaustive search to discover who the artist might be, and came so close that I named some of the artist’s
a closer listen 