Posts Tagged: Valotihkuu
ACL 2025 ~ Top Ten Ambient
Today our exciting journey kicks into high gear, as the staff votes are tallied and we present the first of seven genre lists, leading up to this year’s overall top twenty! The ambient category is our most competitive, as we
ACL 2025 ~ Top Ten Ambient
Today our exciting journey kicks into high gear, as the staff votes are tallied and we present the first of seven genre lists, leading up to this year’s overall top twenty! The ambient category is our most competitive, as we
ACL 2025 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
There’s great irony in the fact that modern winter music oft-includes the sounds of a vanishing season. The United Nations declared 2025 The Year of Glacier Preservation, and in response, the forms of minutiae imprint launched the year-long Ice Series,
ACL 2025 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
There’s great irony in the fact that modern winter music oft-includes the sounds of a vanishing season. The United Nations declared 2025 The Year of Glacier Preservation, and in response, the forms of minutiae imprint launched the year-long Ice Series,
Valotihkuu ~ Drifting Between Seasons
It’s been too long since we’ve heard from Valotihkuu, who makes his welcome return with Drifting Between Seasons. The timing is perfect; while we have already launched the month of March and its meteorological spring, astronomical spring is still three weeks
Valotihkuu ~ Drifting Between Seasons
It’s been too long since we’ve heard from Valotihkuu, who makes his welcome return with Drifting Between Seasons. The timing is perfect; while we have already launched the month of March and its meteorological spring, astronomical spring is still three weeks
The 25 Best Spring Albums of All Time
“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him… Something up above was calling him imperiously… Hither and thither through the meadows he rambled busily, along the hedgerows, across the copses, finding everywhere birds
The 25 Best Spring Albums of All Time
“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him… Something up above was calling him imperiously… Hither and thither through the meadows he rambled busily, along the hedgerows, across the copses, finding everywhere birds
ACL 2020 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
Winter music is more than a seasonal score; it also represents a state of mind. We’ve all been wintering this year: hunkering down, staying in, waiting for the storm to pass. Will we simply survive, or will we be able
ACL 2020 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music
Winter music is more than a seasonal score; it also represents a state of mind. We’ve all been wintering this year: hunkering down, staying in, waiting for the storm to pass. Will we simply survive, or will we be able
Valotihkuu ~ By the River
Last summer we covered Valotihkuu‘s Fragile Melodies, an album so lovely it sent us back to discover all of the earlier works by the Russian composer. A month after the review, he released another album, and since then he’s released a few
Valotihkuu ~ By the River
Last summer we covered Valotihkuu‘s Fragile Melodies, an album so lovely it sent us back to discover all of the earlier works by the Russian composer. A month after the review, he released another album, and since then he’s released a few
ACL 2018 ~ Top Ten Ambient
2018 was a particularly strong year for ambient music. We received over a thousand albums for consideration, in some weeks more than all other genres combined ~ and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. While composing this introduction, we
ACL 2018 ~ Top Ten Ambient
2018 was a particularly strong year for ambient music. We received over a thousand albums for consideration, in some weeks more than all other genres combined ~ and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. While composing this introduction, we
Valotihkuu ~ Fragile Melodies
The new summer-themed album from Cherepovets musician Valotihkuu is so endearing that it sent us in search of his earlier works. Whitelabrecs writes that it signed the Russian artist after falling in love with last year’s Spring And All. When we looked up
Valotihkuu ~ Fragile Melodies
The new summer-themed album from Cherepovets musician Valotihkuu is so endearing that it sent us in search of his earlier works. Whitelabrecs writes that it signed the Russian artist after falling in love with last year’s Spring And All. When we looked up
a closer listen 