- Ambient
- Abstract
- Experimentalism
- Avant-garde
- Field
recording
- Alternative
- Organic electronica
- Musique concrète
- World
music
- Ethnotronica
- Spoken word
Comment: Tont (Ghost) is the project of
Estonian traveller and musician Siim Kuusemäe whose subsequent
outing has been managed grossly in a similar way as his previous ones
though there are up some different characteristics as well. So it can
be said the artist's physical and mental journey goes on. While I am
writing this comment I am not listening to a digital copy of it but
an exemplary of the limited edition of 48 tapes entitled
Vaba Vesi (Free
Water) being released on Tallinn-based underground imprint Trash Can
Dance. It starts off with reciting one extraction by the Estonian
writer Arvo Valton who states that the thought of travelling can be
equalled with the thought of living and the experience of travelling
makes one feel more excited about and more empathetic and being an
integral part of his/her development. It is the most humanity-related
phenomenon. It used to correlate with the thought of Heraclitus, the
pre-Socratic philosopher from ancient Greece who stated all is moving
around and there is no chance to step into one and the same river
twice. Similarly Tont has not done it before and does not do it the
recent time either. Or is not allowed to do it. Additionally, by
Heraclitus Tont may be standing at a crossroad because additionally
those prevalent sultry field recording based sounds and shamanic
rhythmic patterns one can also hear a more abstract composition at
the self-titled track as if hearing passing by the cars at a remote
distance while staying somewhere in the middle of the forest. In
another piece called Sume Tont exploits more synthetic, artificial
templates to create a clear-cut ambient composition in the
traditional sense of this word. In a word, Tont issued a subsequent purgatorial outing which can be admitted a best recording in a year. In 2017,
more profoundly. Besides his solo albums I recommend put ear on a
project, Allinn (at Bandcamp), he has also been get involved in.
