- Modern classical
- Post-classical
- Ambient
- Electronic music
- Minimal synth
- Organic electronica
- Musique concrète
- Art music
- Kosmische Musik
- Dark ambient
- Progressive rock
Comment:
Ivan Black's 23-track record Aural Sketchings conveys a bliss coming
from crossing modern classical and ambient tendencies with one
another or rather infrequently, trying to reach pure forms of the
aforementioned genres. At times he brings forth more acidic,
synthesiser-based experiments which remind of some genres like
synthwave and minimal synth after the crease of post-punk started to
decline and transform into different subgenres (just a few examples
toward it one can find out). Thirdly, Hollow
Star
is a murky electro-acoustic experiment. Indeed, it is musically and
by its mood a solid issue just by going on seamlessly and without any
silly pretense to be somehow artsy-fartsy. Because of that I guess, a
listener can discover lots of organically extended and accomplished
ideas. Emotionally and emotively the best moments are related to
those slightly inverted ambient compositions which seem to transcend
the borders of time and space, which seem to be simultaneously here
and far away (for instance, Day
Dream,
Adrastea,
When
You Are Lost,
Falling
For).
Another striking feature is a terrain where field recordings are
imbued with droning ambient beauty (Icicles).
Additionally, there is also represented Kosmische Musik (In
The Stream),
dark ambient/dystopbient (Thebe)
and spaced-out progressive rock (In
The Afternoon).
It is a sort of music which probably does arouse one's mind to the
extent of hearing new imaginary, physically nonexistent sounds in
his/her head. It is a way how sounds and fantasies interact with one
another to create a phenomenon called music. I am just trying to
humbly map out this wondrous outing with intention not to restrict it
somehow in my personal understanding because this autarkic album is
filled in with secrets which will persevere even after many listening
times I have been having. So let's go on without any superimposition
of words on sounds. It is a pure, sophisticated feeling. The glorious
issue is a part of the discography of Breathe Compilations.