If there is one thing the eleven year history of Serein tells us, it is that the Welsh label does not put out a release unless it is something special – just consider records like Pine by Olan Mill, Retold by Nest or Charcoal by Brambles. That makes their first new material published this year a tantalizing…
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Sound Impression: Olli Aarni – Muovia [Preservation]
Having laid us low last summer with the sumptuously textured melancholic bliss of the crepuscular masterpiece puu tuulessa, Finnish ambient composer Olli Aarni lets the light in on his latest album, a cassette release on Sydney, Australia’s Preservation label entitled Muovia. The new album is comparatively more playful & experimental and somewhat geometric in form in keeping with the modern abstract typography design…
Read More2015 in review: Memorable Journeys in Modern Classical (Experimental/Ambient)
A look back at some of the most memorable journeys in music taken this year in modern classical with an emphasis on project that incorporated experimental and ambient elements to produce something mesmerizing and immersive, as rich in texture and imagination as is emotion (note there will be a separate list of albums focused on solo, ensemble, and chamber…
Read MoreWestern Skies Motel – Buried and Resurfaced [Twice Removed]
Invoking the breathtaking and mysterious expanse of western skies in name is easy enough to do. Creating music diverse and powerful enough to live up to it is another thing entirely, but with the two full length Western Skies Motel records he has delivered this year, Danish musician René Gonzalez Schelbeck has shown he is up to…
Read MoreJohn Lemke – Nomad Frequencies [Denovali]
Experimental musicians are all nomads of a sort, free spirits always seeking out new realms of sound to explore and inhabit, but usually they prompt and challenge themselves to this exploration of their own choosing. It is the mark of an innately talented and dedicated artist to draw musical inspiration from unwelcome circumstances forced upon them, as is the…
Read MoreSound Impression: Bigo & Twigetti – Variables
Variables is a new album project conceived by Jim Perkins for London based experimental classical & electronica label Bigo & Twigetti. Expanding on an approach first employed on the Forty Eight EP released in March, this effort brings together no less than 8 artists collaborating within a set of permutations devised by Perkins to map out and…
Read MoreTravelogue 2015-33: Pleasurably Lost in Eilean
It has been a little too long since we last visited the continent of Eilean, the imaginary land whose map is populated with 100 points, each of which marks a release on the label that bears its name (25 have been released so far). Each album comes with a card that contains a piece of the map and, on…
Read MoreOlan Mill – Cavade Morlem / Half Seas Over
Cavade Morlem, due to be released soon by Moscow-based Dronarivm, is the first new work from composer and musician Alex Smalley, aka Olan Mill, since he closed out a year of numerous solo and collaborative efforts in 2014 with a fine EP on the Home Normal label called Half Seas Over. If you enjoy beautifully crafted, blissful, and serene ambient…
Read MoreZenjungle – Flow [Midira Records]
Zenjungle is the musical alias of musician and artist Phil Gardelis based in Athens, Greece. He has been quite busy of late, with a number of solo albums & EPs, collaborations, not to mention his graphic art which includes logos and album covers. The most recent musical release is Flow, a four track sonic journey…
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