- Ambient
- Soundscape
- Electronic music
- Ambient rock
- Organic electronica
- Field recording
- Musique concrète
- Ambient drone
- Minimalism
- Drone
- Epic
Comment:
this bunch of 15 tracks clocks in at an 81 minute so it is an immense
way for any listener
to go. Yet it is a blissful and
comforting listening
experience full of lush soundscapes being embellished with halcyon
droning ambient, suggestive
concrete sounds, and
broad guitar-based echoes.
One can hear droning here
and there but I would like to call it meta-droning because all of
that seems to be somehow disintegrated and scattered yet the listener
can perceive an inner impulse coming out of there. It might be there
is the centre in the embodiment of a vector and being surrounded by
more or less bound particles around it. At times these interactions
will develop into very beautiful, even epic excursions (at
Radiational Cooling).
Most ambient albums being
produced nowadays are solid ones but within them some issues are
truly outstanding ones. In fact, I do not know what are those
criteria to determine it as a great one but let me suggest that
the variety inside the track
and between the tracks is an important one. A second one is to mingle
organic sounds with artificial ones. I have told about mad professors
in rock
music like Kevin Shields, Mark
E. Smith, Captain Beefheart,
Ariel Pink who have found
their obsessions and daydreamy fantasies right counterparts in sound.
But in ambient and experimental music there are also magicians like
Tim Hecker, Daniel Lopatin, Vincent Fugère, Dave Keifer, Daniel
Maze. Given that the
aforementioned aspects are already represented over there it also
needs strength and consistency and belief to realize all of that and
give us a subsequent quintessential magic through the sound. The
Japanese artist Hirotaka Shirotsubaki provides and synthesises all
those sonic facets, and emotive aspects like stark dreams, and
overwhelming yearning into a vivid whole. Great issue by any means.
