Marco Lucchi – Se da lontano (2016)

Breathe Compilations

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• Modern classical 
• Microtonal 
• Post-classical 
• Ambient 
• Drone 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Minimalism 
• Piano music 
• Ambient drone 
• Dark ambient

Comment: prolific Italian, Modena-residing musician Marco Lucchi's 5-notch outing is a bit different with one exception than some other albums I have heard by him so far. Of course, there is represented drone music, his profound minimalist approach inclined to reach profound, organic mysticism and otherworldly spirituality of dark ambient which is being characteristic to other Italian juggernauts like Ain Soph, Stefano Musso aka Alio Die, Gianluigi Gasparetti aka Oöphoi, and Lorenzo Montanà (just naming a few of the crowd) as well. Indeed, in some tracks like Shady and the title track spiritual dimensions are vamped up with the aid of vibrant drones being accomplished by immersive yet slightly awe-induced orchestrations as if walking around under the ground, in a catacomb somewhere in Southern Italy embraced by skulls, decay and the presence of centuries as an ennobling and frightening continuum. One can perceive the presence of Grim Reaper who represents both death and life, existence and disappearance (the counterparts can be evaluated and ennobled being placed side by side – there is no need to live forever, there is the need to be active/creative and contemplative and search for unity with the rest of Universe). At Psiche Abbandonata, the aforementioned exception, a listener can enjoy a skillful, expressive improvisation on an oboe by Paulo Chagas being accompanied on a sparse piano accompaniment by Matteo Marchisano-Adamo. The overwhelming, mind-broadening outing is a bit in the discography of the Mexican imprint Breathe Compilations.

Ivan Black – Aural Sketchings (2017)

Breathe Compilations

• 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. 

V.A – Codex Internum (2016)

Breathe Compilations

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• Dub techno 
• Space music 
• Deep techno 
• Minimal techno 
• Post-industrial 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Ambient 
• Synthwave 
• Electronic music 
• Soundscape 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Post-classical 
• Dreamwave 
• Electro pop 
• Techno pop 
• House 
• Minimalism 
• IDM

Comment: this enormous set of 19 compositions reflects on good taste by Breathe Compilations. Musically it is a fancy patchwork of styles – in the first section one can enjoy more ambient drenched distensions and dilatations, then it will be changing into a dub and house and techno blended miscellany and artsy electro/techno/IDM inflected pop and then post-industrial and avant-garde elements come in to predominate the mix. Of course, the description of mine is somewhat contingent because frequently there are up different elements within one track and within one pigeonhole. That's cool that the picture of it being so varicoloured and diverse. For example, ambient music could be expressed both in terms of changeable synthwave/Kosmische Musik and beatific concrete music and abstract classical music/post-classical and through majestic soundtracks for space rockets and sun-exhausted daydreaming. One of such descriptions can be ascribed to Marco Lucchi and Glenn Sogge's Towards And Within which reaches a 24-minute though it is thoroughly blissful and immersive in its minimal approach from start to finish. Those minimal changes do ameliorate the consistency of the track. Additionally to the aforementioned artists there are represented such artists as Zoran, In Vitro, Elypixa, Esoteric Sob, Capisconne, Ray Garrido, Ohuican, Eckul, Vate, Substak, Solef, Twin Peetz and Moolsaasa, Lezet, Jimmy Watt, Nulix, Lingua Lustra, Ivan Black, and AxBx. Indeed, it is an excellent example of the compilation music from 2016.

brh06 V.A.- Breathe 06 (2012)

Breathe

8.7

/Indie pop, Krautrock, Chillout, Dark ambient, Electronic pop, Funk, Downtempo, Baroque pop/

Comment: this 14-track miscellany involves such artists as ArnAck, Transmission 13, Ohuican/Jaguar Nahuatl, Capisconne, Ray Garrido, Bobby Wotnot, Invector, Dimitris, Nahuatl Sound System, PerlssDj, TSS Tortue Super sonic, Nulix, Gapisconne, 1981, and Vela. However, the music presented by these projects used to extend from brooding ambient/dark ambient and New Age-tinged reverberations to flourishing indie pop appearances and motorik krautrock-ish propulsions and smooth funk vibes and uplifting chillout appearances.   

ArnAck To mars (Breathe Compilations)

Liegè`i produtsentide Arnaud Rosoux` ja David Schreder`i (Dio2xide, Kingfisherg) 6-looline debüütreliis on täis seesugust helisegmenti, mis viib mõtted paljudesse suundadesse rändama. (Et reisimuusika, või mis? Marsile?). 34 minutit hõlmaval EP-l võib kuulda sulneid kosmilisi analoogkajasid, õrnalt lo-fi`likke kesktempos rütmistikke, IDM-külgnevusi (kaks viimatinimetatut kombineeruvad tugevalt omavahel) ning manuaalselt klahvkadega laotud bassisaunde (igasgune robustsus ning haavatavus helikeeles muudab kontseptsiooni orgaanilisemaks). Ning ka kosmilise kõlaga minimalismi ja poptolmu ühitavat süntesaatorieksperimentalistikat, mis oli omane 70ndate krautrockalkeemikutele (Elektriktus, Konrad Schnitzler) või siis mõnele 90ndate ja nullindate krautrockesindajale (To Rococo Rot, Kreidler, Tarwater). Teisisõnu, "To Mars" kulgeb sci-fi ja lo-fi vahepeale jäävat niiti mööda. Võtame näiteks Sorry, Dog!-i, mille rohmakalt pinda puutuvad rütmikäigud ei ole ülejäänud helipilti vahetult integreeritud, andes seeläbi kuulajale võimaluse oma ettekujutused ümber mõtestada. (Igasugune muusika, mille "portfoolios" ei sisaldu etteennustamise elemente, on tegelikult ekstraordinaarne). Dünaamiliselt ja (üleüldse sugestiivses tähenduses) on eeskujulikem näide The Mome Raths in my Studio. Väga hea EP.

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