Journeys in Sound & Music
From the glacial post-rock soundscapes of Canvas (Polar Seas Recordings), Monuments (Sound in Silence) and Resolven (Polar Seas Recordings) to the sprawling drones of the more recent Departures series, Brad Deschamps & Mike Abercrombie have shown a willingness to change tack as they have navigated their North Atlantic Drift project over the years since their…
Read MoreSince starting out mostly as a home for Canadian duo North Atlantic Drift and the side projects of members Brad Deschamps and Mike Abercrombie, Polar Seas Recordings has expanded its reach in recent years and boasts a surge of excellent new releases for 2018 by artists such as Celer and Hakobune. The most recent of…
Read MoreSoft Ice is a gorgeous, billowing immersion in youthful memories of winters past by ambient artist Angela Klimek under her musical nom de plume, poemme. The album which she released herself earlier this year is now available in a nicely packaged CD edition on Polar Seas Recordings where these beautiful monochromatic dreams in drone form find…
Read MoreToronto based Polar Seas Recordings was founded a little over five years ago and for most of that time has primarily served as a home for the releases of Brad Deschamps & Mike Abercrombie as North Atlantic Drift as well as their respective side projects anthéne and Transits of Mercury. In the past year however, the…
Read MoreBrad Deschamps one half of Canadian music duo North Atlantic Drift, and co-founder of Polar Seas Recordings, has just unveiled his own solo project called anthéne with the release of a new full length recording entitled repose mastered by Sean McCann. Anyone familiar with the glassy ambient drones and mellifluous flow of North Atlantic Drift will be at home…
Read MoreNorth Atlantic Drift and Northumbria are both two man instrumental music projects based in Toronto, Canada that share ambient and post rock as descriptors of their work. Despite those commonalities, one could be forgiven for being surprised to see them sharing a split album. Listening to the six tracks on this new release on Polar Seas…
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