Gideon Wolf * From The Mouth Of The Sun * Shida Shahabi
Three different (acoustic and neo-classical) soundtrack albums that work together very well: performed by Gideon Wolf, From The Mouth Of The Sun and Shida Shahabi.
Three different (acoustic and neo-classical) soundtrack albums that work together very well: performed by Gideon Wolf, From The Mouth Of The Sun and Shida Shahabi.
Year Zero is Gideon Wolf’s 4th album since 2012. It’s a solo album, in a way, but it could not have come to life without the contributions of a small ensemble of artists that played improvisations or ‘incoherent and strange phrases/notes’ that were later reassembled into the resulting pieces.
Working the other way around – composing pieces from instantaneous improvisations and a collection of short phrases – has given this music a refreshing element of surprise.
And it’s exactly that element that makes this album stand out among many others.
Mike Cooper’s Fratello Mare is a journey you’d better not begin unprepared: it’s exploring the beauty of the Pacific yet somehow also resembles Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas…!?
Furthermore: some music to calm down to: guitar pedal soundscapes by J. Butler, and two short neo-classical EP’s by Tambour and Lunae Lumen