ACL 2014: Top Ten Ambient

This year, A Closer Listen continued to receive more ambient music than any other type, over 500 releases in all.  The ambient field is so competitive that only the most distinctive releases manage to break through and to form a lasting impression.

Lawrence English + Stephen Vitiello ~ Fable

We last encountered Lawrence English on the immersive Wilderness of Mirrors, released earlier this year; we last encountered Stephen Vitiello at the New York exhibition “In the Garden of Sonic Delights”.  On Fable, the artists join forces for the second time, following  2011’s Acute Inbetweens (Crónica).  Each album shares a

LCNL 053: A Machine In The Garden [mix]

“Our inherited symbols of order and beauty have been divested of meaning.” Leo Marx And now for something a little bit different: an edited soundwalk consisting of field-recordings made during the Sonic Delights festival at Caramoor in Katonah, NY. Richard

In the Garden of Sonic Delights

Arriving on the heels of last year’s Soundings exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art is In the Garden of Sonic Delights, a new sound art exhibition located in Westchester County, New York.  Richard Allen reports on the opening