ambient Archives - Trebuchet Magazine

Shamanic Falterings Amongst the Valleys of Tone

21/11/2017 Kailas

Musician Ben Frost meanders at the ICA 2017 (read more)

Kotä: Selected Works of Experimental Music and Art Expo

27/10/2017 Alexei Monroe

The Russians aren’t coming. But you can go to them. And should. (read more)

Pact Infernal on Stroboscopic Artefacts (Monad XXV)

01/09/2017 Codex Europa

Architectural depth and space, dark sonics, incantatory beats – Stroboscopic Artefacts produce the goods once more (read more)

Staring into the Eye of the Soundscape (Riverside)

01/11/2016 Tim Hall

Forging on after the death of guitarist Piotr Grudziński, Riverside continue to intrigue (read more)

Crystal Dwarf (KOMORA A)

14/07/2016 Alexei Monroe

Mysterious, focussed, disciplined. Komora A put some backbone into ambient. (read more)

An Ominous and Unsettling Ambience: #1 (Daghraven)

20/05/2016 Alexei Monroe

Intricately constructed and spanning the gap between melancholy and tragedy, Daghraven makes for brooding archeological listening (read more)

Peau froide, léger soleil (Vainio & Vigroux)

01/02/2016 Alexei Monroe

A review of the Cosmo Rhythmatic label’s third release: Vanio & Vigroux’s Peau Froid, Leger Soleil (read more)

De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu (Troum & Raison d’être)

10/12/2015 Alexei Monroe

De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu is not an album whose complexity or power can be instantly grasped. It requires some time and effort. (read more)

An uncomfortable imbalance. ∆GO (Lilies On Mars)

24/11/2015 Richard Harvey

Neither too soft to be described as background, or loud enough to be defined as foreground, Lilies on Mars straddle the genres. (read more)

A muscular form of ambient: Near Dark (Gideon Wolf)

01/10/2015 Sean Keenan

Emotional complexity and implied narrative – Gideon Wolf’s ambient electronica has heart (read more)

An undercurrent of groove and funk… gone dull. [Polar Bear]

11/04/2015 Dave Rush

Two tracks in, and the band departs to leave the irritatingly named Leafcutter John to give the audience a few minutes of meandering ambient nonsense. (read more)

Composing With Particle Interactions. How Does the Invisible Sound?

04/03/2015 Sean Keenan

here is a lot going on in Q07, particularly for a record which qualifies wholeheartedly as ambient noodling. Thanks to the obliging folk at Farmacia901 the reviewed version of the album is a 24-Bit Flac (read more)

Boilersuit in a field [The Orb]

26/02/2015 Dave Rush

I always think of “Towers of Dub” as The Orb in microcosm. Although at around 15 minutes it’s not particularly micro, which I suppose is part of the point. But with that brilliant sample (“Hailie (read more)

Grouper : The Man Who Died In His Boat

18/02/2013 Kyle Bobby Dunn

“Reflected in these songs is an honest loneliness and sincerity that so much music tries to escape and refuse. Sometimes it really is the only music I ever want to listen to.” Kyle Bobby Dunn reviews Grouper’s The Man Who Died In His Boat (read more)