Tag: ambient

The Wind, Bells, Falls of Lee and Bertucci 

13/01/2022

Lea Bertucci and Robbie Lee's highly explorative and improvisational album renders reality with the weird. ...

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Hymns of Isolation: No Wilderness Deep Enough

05/08/2020

No Wilderness Deep Enough, the devastating new record from Neurosis' Steve Von Till, is a masterful exploration of darkness and texture. Epic!...

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Tunnels of ĀH Menaces in a Deathless Mind

11/05/2020

Discordant industrial noise fractures into something new entirely, emphasising a rich, overwhelming soundscape....

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Quiet Assumption: The rise of Cryo Chamber

12/11/2019

Simon Heath's Dark Ambient label Cryo Chamber continues it's rising path of turbulent soundscapes and passionate drone....

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Ager Sonus Mithra

Abstract Formalism and Grafisk Världsbyggnad

28/08/2019

Understanding formal tendencies in Ambient Drone music through the work of France Jobin (Solitude) and Ager Sonus (Mithra)...

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Shamanic Falterings Amongst the Valleys of Tone

21/11/2017

Musician Ben Frost meanders at the ICA 2017...

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Kotä: Selected Works of Experimental Music and Art Expo

27/10/2017

The Russians aren't coming. But you can go to them. And should....

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Pact Infernal on Stroboscopic Artefacts (Monad XXV)

01/09/2017

Architectural depth and space, dark sonics, incantatory beats - Stroboscopic Artefacts produce the goods once more...

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Staring into the Eye of the Soundscape (Riverside)

01/11/2016

Forging on after the death of guitarist Piotr Grudziński, Riverside continue to intrigue...

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Crystal Dwarf (KOMORA A)

14/07/2016

Mysterious, focussed, disciplined. Komora A put some backbone into ambient....

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Daghraven

An Ominous and Unsettling Ambience: #1 (Daghraven)

20/05/2016

Intricately constructed and spanning the gap between melancholy and tragedy, Daghraven makes for brooding archeological listening...

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Vainio and Vigroux

Peau froide, léger soleil (Vainio & Vigroux)

01/02/2016

A review of the Cosmo Rhythmatic label's third release: Vanio & Vigroux's Peau Froid, Leger Soleil...

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De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu

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

10/12/2015

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

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Lilies on Mars

An uncomfortable imbalance. ∆GO (Lilies On Mars)

24/11/2015

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

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Gideon Wolf

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

01/10/2015

Emotional complexity and implied narrative - Gideon Wolf's ambient electronica has heart...

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

11/04/2015

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....

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q07

Composing With Particle Interactions. How Does the Invisible Sound?

04/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere is a lot going on in Q07, particularly for a record which qualifies wholeheartedly as ambient noodling. Thanks to the obliging...

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The Orb, history of the future part 2

Boilersuit in a field [The Orb]

26/02/2015

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...

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Pan American – For Waiting, For Chasing

03/12/2010

Pan American is no stranger to the art of soundscapes...

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