The Lonely Bell * Loneward * David Cordero
Three albums with immersive ambient drones: from The Lonely Bell, Loneward, and David Cordero respectively.
Tag: long-form
Bass Communion / Freiband * Ben Vida
Bass Communion and Freiband (Steven Wilson and Frans de Waard) present a 3CD set created solely from the sound of the Casio VL-Tone VL1 synth * Ben Vida reduces the tempo to zero with a four-hour set of deep drones.
S.E.T.I. * Frame
S.E.T.I. delivers 8(!) hours of music for your hibernation on your quest for extra-terrestrial intelligence… Frame‘s journey stays closed to home: exploring our own galaxy
Kenneth Kirschner – Compressions & Rarefactions
It was Brian Eno who once described ambient music as ‘music that is as ignorable as it is interesting’ – but it may very well be Kenneth Kirschner taking this concept to the extreme.
“Time, space, repetition, pattern, the very very big and the very very small. There’s an effort to be a part of the continuum and to recognize it, to try to remove the self if possible in a recognition of the bigger things. Also, neither of us is afraid of the dark.”