Aiko Takahashi * Phonsonic
Aiko Takahashi’s music is combined with the photography of Edouard Elias on the latest IIKKI book+cd-release *** Phonsonic spreads out a tapestry of echoes, but without overusing the effect.
Aiko Takahashi’s music is combined with the photography of Edouard Elias on the latest IIKKI book+cd-release *** Phonsonic spreads out a tapestry of echoes, but without overusing the effect.
French duo known as RadioMentale presents a soundscape ‘at the crossroads of ambient, sound art and radio art’. The album is directly linked to the solo project of Éric Pajot as Humans By Billions
Robert Heel’s King of Groves, inspired by James MacPherson’s poetry * Stephen Vitiello & Molly Berg’s music combined with Jake Michael’s photography in a new edition in the IIKKI series.
This collection of essays on Ambient Music provides a series of provocations, observations and reflections that each open up seams for further discussion.
2016 has been a relatively quiet year for the Kleefstra Brothers – nucleus of many different projects of ambient improv and Frisian poetry.
Until recently when suddenly three albums by Kleefstra / Bakker / Kleefstra were released almost simultaneously, as well as theTsjinlûd multimedia project celebrating the Frisian culture in words, pictures, drawings and music.
Joe Evans explores the relation between the Elements, the states of Matter and musical Intervals;
Mark Harris dreams of being alone in a forest at night;
Max Würden releases two titles simultaneously: one on Wolfgang Voigt’s Exponate series and one for reading Sci-Fi books.
In the Shortlist sections, I will mention some of the albums that I enjoyed listening to, but couldn’t find the time (or the right words) for a “full” review for. Still, I think they deserve your attention: use the links to find more info and hear previews.
Good Weather for an Airstrike – Lights
“Good Weather For An Airstrike (the name comes from a Sigur Rós piece) is an ambient/post-rock project by Tom Honey from Winchester, Hampshire UK. The idea of the project was to create a collection of relaxing sounds which would help Tom alleviate the issues caused by suffering from tinnitus, which causes a ringing sensation in the ear and can often result in difficulty sleeping. Combining processed guitars, dreamy strings, piano, synths, drums, lulling drones and subtle field recordings, Lights is full of wonderful soundscapes that mix ambient, electronic, post-rock and neo-classical sounds perfectly.”
Offthesky & Man Watching the Stars – Afar, Farewell
Experimental violinist Brendan Paxton joins Jason ‘Offthesky’ Corder on these “five gorgeous tracks of slowly evolving melody on a soft bed of processed guitar, molten strings and Offthesky’s deep and quirky signatures”.