Svarte Greiner * Franz Kirmann * Loren Nerell
Svarte Greiner’s Moss Garden, Franz Kirmann’s Elysian Park and Loren Nerell’s Dark Cloud: the references to nature are strictly coincidental.
Or maybe not.
Tag: soundscapes
Sonmi451 * Machinefabriek /+ Banabila * Legiac
More experimental music from the Lowlands: new albums by Sonmi451, Legiac, Machinefabriek & Michel Banabila and some more Machinefabriek this time with Anne Bakker & Edith Karkoscha
Steve Roach & Robert Logan; Phonothek; Erik Wøllo & Byron Metcalf
Neither ‘new age’ nor ‘dark ambient’ – yet maybe some of both?
Presenting collaborations by Steve Roach/Robert Logan, Erik Wollo/Byron Metcalf and a new Phonothek album.
Multicast Dynamics; Tobias Freund & Valentina Berthelon; Mario Gronnert; Richard Eigner
Edgar Varèse defined music as ‘organized sound’…
This shortlist presents some fine examples of ‘organized sound’: the final chapter of Multicast Dynamics’ four-part series, audio/visual experiments from Tobias Freund & Valentina Berthelon, urban dreamscapes from Mario Gronnert and CommonSen5E, and, to conclude, a work by Richard Eigner that may best demonstrate why Varèse’s definition is a good one.
Autistici; Aidan Baker; David Cordero; Markus Guentner
Music about The Sun’s Orbit (Aidan Baker), Earth’s collision with Theia (Markus Guentner) via the shores of Spain (David Cordero) into the microcosmic space between sounds (Autistici).
Darren McClure; Randall Collier-Ford; Flowers for Bodysnatchers; E.U.E.R.P.I.
Dark and brooding soundscapes from Darren McClure, Randall Collier-Ford and Flowers for Bodysnatchers.
But also some relaxing guitar music by E.U.E.R.P.I. to prevent you from sinking in too deep….
FrostbYte (Daniel Blinkhorn) – One Dog Night
Discover hitherto unknown sonic regions of Svalbard (Spitsbergen) with the acousmatic compositions from Daniel Blinkhorn, a.k.a. FrostBYte
Available in Stereo as well as in stunning full surround versions.
The title ‘One Dog Night’, refers to ‘an adage once used to describe how cold the temperature could drop at night. If it was a particularly cold night, it may have been appropriate to have one, two, even three of your dogs on the bed with you to help keep you warm as you slept!’
Ebauche; Todd Tobias; Arash Akbari; Darren McClure & Jose Soberanes
Soundscapes from all over the globe: new albums from Ebauche (Ireland, Poland, Cambodia); Todd Tobias (US); Arash Akbari (Iran); Darren McClure (Japan) & Jose Soberanes (Mexico)
Multicast Dynamics – Scape, Aquatic System
Multicast Dynamics‘s Scape and Aquatic System are the first half of a quadrilogy that will be completed with another two albums later.
The album series move from an evolutionary to a cosmological scale: starting from dry land filled with light and streams, to the constantly changing surface of the oceans, into a frozen and murky underwater world, finally up to the arrival in an interstellar space and the cosmos.
This first half of the full project set a high bar for the remaining two releases of the series, but I am really very confident that this set will become a landmark in conceptual environmental ambient music.