- Dark ambient
- Post-classical
- Space music
- Experimentalism
- Piano music
- Avant-garde
- Soundscapes
- Modern classical
Comment: there we are to
continue with an immense collection of the Jewish musician Wings of
An Angel´s sequent issue
Pause Play (Memoirs Of Russian Spiritual
Landscapes, Aug 2016) from this year. I guess he might be the
most prolific artist worldwide in 2016. In spite of the fact there is
no decline in quality with regard to his music. His 9-notch issue
might be disturbing ideologically to Russians because there are some
disdainful, critical hints at it (
Bawdy Songs About Shopping With
The Wives Of Russian Oligarchs;
Repeat My Mistakes (Why Does
Russian History Repeat Itself Flawlessly And So Do I?;
The
Spiritual Horrors Of Our Imaginary Superiority)). Musically,
however, it is a mellow drift between piano music and (dark) ambient
music though the main elements are represented in tracks separately.
Of course, the artist`s piano music is something unusual because
those chords are either hammered or played on a prepared piano
(
Repeat My Mistakes (Why Does Russian History Repeat Itself
Flawlessly And So Do I?; Without Permanent Identity (I Remain
The ID-Free Cosmopolitan Vagabond Even As Years Pass On By;
Innocent Blonde Girls Play Hopscotch In The Backrooms Of
Post-Soviet Hotels)).
The latter of them is the favourite of mine because of chiming like
the play on an old, dusty piano. The artist’s ambient compositions
are played with a pathos as if channelized through angelic filters,
being solemn and compelling simultaneously. I guess there are up
cathedral organ-alike drones to be added to inject something divine
and wondrous to a body of work. At times it is a spacey and abstract riding, rather than a solemn insight into a mystical universe. In a word, it is an outstanding forge
in 2016.
