Video Premiere: Ivo by Matti Bye

By: Stationary Travels April 20, 2024April 20, 2024 Discover, Germany, Modern classical, Premieres, Swedenambient, instrumental, Matti Bye, Modern classical, music, pianoLeave a Comment

From a very young age, Swedish composer Matti Bye came to the realization that the piano would be the instrument that would become what is biography calls his “true means of expression” and “musical weapon of choice”. His career provides ample evidence of this from his live performances to screenings of the masterpieces of silent…

Premiere: Kumo by Purple Decades

By: Stationary Travels April 12, 2024 Ambient, Discover, Premieres, USAambient, instrumental, music, Purple Decades, Tristan EckersonLeave a Comment

First introduced with the 2020 EP Thought Forms, Purple Decades is an alter ego of Cincinnati-based composer, pianist, & producer Tristan Eckerson that he uses to explore a broad spectrum of electronic textures and ambient soundscapes. The project saw its first full length album release last year with Journey Test (Beacon Sound), an album characterized…

Video Premiere: Kynnefjäll (live) by Jakob Lindhagen

By: Stationary Travels April 8, 2024April 8, 2024 Discover, Germany, Modern classical, Premieres, Swedenambient, instrumental, Jakob Lindhagen, Modern classical, music, pianoLeave a Comment

Nearly a decade after first coming up the idea, composer Nils Frahm has seen Piano Day widely celebrated around the world on the 88th day of each year (chosen for the 88 keys of the piano of course). More recently Frahm’s Leiter label began curating and releasing an annual compilation of piano music to coincide…

Sound Impression: Impossibly distant, impossibly close by Rafael Anton Irisarri and Abul Mogard

By: Stationary Travels April 7, 2024April 7, 2024 Ambient, Italy, Reviews & Impressions, Sound Impressions, USAAbul Mogard, ambient, drone, instrumental, music, Rafael Anton IrisarriLeave a Comment

While Abul Mogard (the alter ego of Guido Zen) and Rafael Anton Irisarri each create music that is often labeled as ambient, anyone familiar with their work would likely agree that they do not necessarily comply with Eno’s oft repeated hypothesis that it “must be as ignorable as it is interesting”. In their own distinctive…

Through a Musical Lens: Improvisations 2023 by Derek Hunter Wilson

By: Stationary Travels April 4, 2024April 4, 2024 Ambient, Discover, Modern classical, Through a Musical Lens, USAambient, Derek Hunter Wilson, instrumental, Modern classical, music, pianoLeave a Comment

Derek Hunter Wilson is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Portland, Oregon who considers improvisation an important part of his musical practice. While this can be said of a number of musicians, I would dare say few embrace the idea as expansively as Wilson. A compelling case in point is his 2022 project covered here…

A Sense of Place: Four Suffolk Sea Scenes by Simeon Walker

By: Stationary Travels March 31, 2024March 31, 2024 A Sense of Place, Discover, England, Field Recordings, Modern classicalambient, instrumental, Modern classical, music, pianoLeave a Comment

There are any number of ways an artist might seek to capture the essence of a place in their music. A field recordist might do so solely through curating and mixing sounds they collect in situ while an electronic musician might conjure an immersive soundscape that envelops the listener in a visceral way. For modern…

PREMIERE: Future Sand by Ezra Feinberg

By: Stationary Travels March 26, 2024 Acoustic/Folk, Ambient, Discover, Electronica, Premieres, USAambient, electroacoustic, Ezra Feinberg, instrumental, musicLeave a Comment

As a practicing psychoanalyst and a former founding member of the San Francisco psychedelic collective Citay, New York based guitarist and composer Ezra Feinberg is able to create music that appeals on multiple levels – thoughtful and humanistic on one hand and buoyantly experimental on the other. In calling his forthcoming third album Soft Power,…

PREMIERE: Zukunft, Nacht Und Ewigkeit by Tim Linghaus

By: Stationary Travels March 22, 2024March 31, 2024 Ambient, Discover, Germany, Modern classical, Premieresambient, instrumental, Modern classical, music, piano, Tim Linghaus3 Comments

Since emerging on the scene as a solo artist around eight years ago, German musician & composer Tim Linghaus has built up a body of work characterized by an understated, but deeply personal approach to neoclassical music centered around piano, synthesizers and ambient noise. Many of his works are referential of his own experiences growing up…