Posts tagged "ambient"(Page 12)

Mattia Cupelli explores new musical landscapes with latest album

Cast your thoughts back: what great RUINS come to mind when you think of history, of bygone civilizations who have crumbled and fallen for us to walk amongst the ashes now? Now, cast your mind forward – what do you think our own world will look like in the centuries

Colleen flirts with dream pop on new album, ‘The Tunnel and the Clearing’

Image by Estudio Primo The arc suggested by French electronic ambient composer and multi-instrumentalist Colleen’s latest offering, The Tunnel and the Clearing, is simple. It is a journey from darkness to light, from one opening to the next. However, Colleen’s invocation of this journey takes what is otherwise a linear

Interview: Five Minutes with AK

German-based producer AK has recently released his latest single, ‘Smoke’ via Monstercat Silk. The single is the third of three releases from the artist and label, with the first, ‘Back Again’ released earlier this year. ‘Smoke’ is created to convey a sombre message of the recent climate issues, released in

Luke Slater’s ‘DIALOGUE’ is a captivating commentary on communication, socialisation and isolation

Image courtesy 3D Agency If anything the pandemic has come to affirm, it is that we are inherently social creatures. The global lockdown and periods of self-isolation brought with it the need for us to adapt our methods of socialisation and communication. Technology became more essential than ever, and in

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Music producer Jacob Olofsson launches new project Olovson

Branching away from his mainstream success forming part of Grammy-award winning duo Jarami, composer Jacob Olofsson has released his first solo single under the new moniker Olovson. Taking on this new production style Olovson explores the musician’s neo-classical and ambient music production palette. Olovson has shared his single ‘Books Are

Loscil extrapolates an entire universe from a single phrase on triumphant album, ‘Clara’

Image: Kranky That ‘Loscil’, the moniker of Canadian sound artist Scott Morgan, is taken from an abbreviation for “looping oscillator” is an act of nomenclature that deftly echoes Morgan’s creative practice; deconstructing the familiar and sculpting from the pieces something completely new. This modus operandi, executed with a distinct sense

Dâm-Funk experiments with the soul of his sound on latest EP, ‘Architecture III’

Image: Glydezone Recordings Over the course of the past few years, prolific Californian producer Dâm-Funk has been preoccupied with the structural core of the sounds that inform his music. What these experiments have produced is a trilogy of EPs that see the artist unlearning, relearning and reformulating the codes of

Weekly roundup: what we’ve had on repeat

Image by Kiran Gidda From psychedelic 8-bit meditation music to improvised post-modern jazz, these are the releases that caught our attention this week. In no particular order: UNKNOWN ME, Bishintai That the debut LP from Tokyo group UNKNOWN ME opens with an automated voice instructing “this music is gentle practice

With ‘Melting Songs’, Vilde Tuv sings folksongs at the rave

Image: Posey When you first encounter the meditative notes of a wooden recorder singing through the buzzing electronics on Vilde Tuv’s latest album Melting Songs, you’ll likely experience a moment of bewilderment followed quickly by stunning clarity. And while the flute and woodwind instrumentation is not entirely unfamiliar to electronic

Skee Mask’s ‘Pool’ is a sweeping statement of the producer’s sonic mastery

Image: Ilian Tape When German producer Bryan Müller, known by the moniker Skee Mask, released his sophomore effort Compro in 2018, it was widely praised as an immaculately designed body of work. That album was seen as a remarkable refinement of the aesthetic he had been crafting since his teenage

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