Mathieu Lamontage – Lieux Communs (2018)

Audio Gourmet

• Ambient 
• Epic 
• Soundscape 
• Post-classical 
• Ambient drone 
• Field recording 
• Electronic music 
• Musique concrète

Comment: Mathieu Lamontage is an artist of French-Canadian ancestry from the province of Quebec, Canada who is also being known as Arbee. In fact, he is obviously being better known due to the nom de plume due to having it preceded to writing music under his own personal name. What may be the main difference between Mathieu Lamontage and Arbee? His oeuvre being written under his own name is evidently more concentrated on ambient and drone sounds with intention to create more monumental works – by listening to this 3-track outing one can hear either fragmented or segmented fractals related to a majestically sweeping whole which could be considered a representative of those immense snow fields at northern part of Quebec, a good plateau for riding on snowmobile while being surrounded by the overcoming void and wind. Indeed, it is a beatific perspective being separated off the suffocating civilisation. Of course, such picturesque sort of descriptions cannot be eradicated from my personal memory due to experiencing another Quebecer Tim Hecker`s early albums, especially Radio Amor which is some kind of quintessence of the Northern Hemisphere being described through audible artificial frequencies. The blissful glimpse is a part of the discography of Audio Gourmet.

Lauki - 69º54´S​-​135º12´E (2012)

Audio Gourmet
Bandcamp

9.7

/Experimentalism, Chamber music, Modern classical, Avant-garde, Electro-acoustic, Acousmatics/

Comment: (Mikel) Lauki is a Basque-artist (born in Pamplona) who is residing in Barcelona at the moment. His 5-track issue is a melancholic, glittering whole travelling down along with emotive cello chords which in turn are backed up by treated electronics and epic acoustics mixed environment. It involves uplifting crescendos and sublime shuffle of chords. Sometimes it is more experimental, sometimes more poppy thereby reminding even of Penguin Cafe Orchestra. In a word, it is highly pictureque by its expressionistic touch and approach.

SALA - Jurmala Revisited-Breath (2012)

Audio Gourmet

8.8

/Ambient, Musique concrète, Modern classical, Field recording, Minimal, Crossover/ 

Comment: just a pair of long-running tracks which start off with lush sounds coming out directly from within the natural environment, however, soon getting slowly mixing up other sounds into it. Such sound can be considered as natural kind of ambient music where changes used to be minimal and laconic yet captivating ones thus reminding of the likes of Juanjo Palacious, and Oskar Hallbert. The project originates from Lithiania and is headed by Audrius Simkunas.