Israeli Artist Yair Etziony’s previous releases fizz and buzz and click. Here on We Were Here Before, We Will Be Here After, the producer makes a suite of more formal soundtracks, where the… Continue reading
Abstract Music (on improvisation, ambient, drone and other amorphous sound art) Music and Non-Music If you are reading this then it’s safe to say that you probably listen to some pretty… Continue reading
What we have here is in fact quite a unique little collection of music. I use the term collection in that there are several individual parts at play, though perhaps collection is not… Continue reading
The packaging is exquisite the mastering beautiful and the vinyl is solid. The fact that the composer has strong links to this blog does not affect my evaluation of Light Through Open Blinds… Continue reading
I recently had the great pleasure of spending a few days with danish sound artist Lars Lundehave Hansen. It went beyond the traditional listener-musician relationship, I will disclose. Not in any dubious way… Continue reading
This is an ambient record by Caught in The Wake Forever aka Fraser McGowan but it also sounds like an autobiography. I bought it for the cover by Alexander Kopatz. Sorry, but I… Continue reading
E-bows, hiss and caves. Harmonics and distant choral drones. Swelling and filtering – but this record isn’t a ‘stick on some nice ambient while I get the aromatherapy oils out.’ The distant crashing… Continue reading
Sleep CDs are hard to get right – for something to be soporific yet interesting is a tightrope of stimulation both under and over. And if you’ve followed my reviews anywhere… Continue reading
Lazy journo Wikipedia Alert! Gunnbjørn Fjeld (also called only Gunnbjørn) is Greenland‘s highest mountain and also the highest mountain north of the Arctic circle. It’s also the first track on this Greenland-inspired ambient masterclass. Treated violin, piano… Continue reading
The sound of the underside of an iceberg kissing the seabed pulls us further out to sea, as it drags fishing nets and lost Marconi static trailing. Then, hollow Tuvan-like throatings are… Continue reading
