Item Caligo ‎– Go away, I Want To Sleep (2012)

Pocket Fields

9.3

/Dark ambient, Modern classical, Ambient, Experimentalism, Minimal, Soundscapes/  

Comment: there can be said only good words about this set of 6 tracks which is an amalgamation of acoustic and synthetic sounds. More concretely, the issue pushes to the limit the technique of sole, echo-centric chords and a little gloomy spaces creepily pulsating around it. The release sounds a little bit fragmented sometimes embellished with the bouts of insistent, bass-driven drones, and vocal interferences. Despite the prevalence of these form elements there are up suggestive melody motives and harmonic dizziness. This can be considered an interplay between slowed down modern classical and considerable murky, even glowering dark ambient immersions.         

The Picturesque Episodes - Singularity (2013)

Pocket Fields

• Post-rock
• Ambient
• Soundscapes
• Modern classical
• Epic

P.asha S. - 3 Winds (2011)

Pocket Fields

9.1

/Ambient, Soundscapes, Epic, Musique Concrète, Ambient noise, Minimal/

Comment: yesterday I reviewed Shinobu Nemoto`s album Tetsuo which used to run on austere and bleak digital processing and modulation. In fact, Tallinn, Estonia-based artist Pavel Semenov (Semjonov) used to exploit similar shapes and patterns, though, being more involved in a sort of musique concrète touch (bird songs, wind dashes, street sounds, the sea). Semenov`s soundscapes used to rise and fall (down), swell and diminish, however, thereby constituting the epic ambiance in your ears.

Kluge - Grazuole (2009/2011)

Pocket Fields

Bandcamp

9.6

/Dark ambient, Minimalism, Noise, Musique concrète, Field recordings, Experimentalism, Ambient noise, Ambient drone, Drone/

Comment: No doubt, St Peterburg, Russia-based Kluge is one of the most eminent noiseniks/drone musicians through its very impressive fringe area developments and crushing accents nowadays (inspite of being not celebrated yet). Here is one, 40-minute issue (at Bandcamp it is divided into 2 compositions, though) which functions to get evolved into dark ambient patterns at times, into persuasive minimalism sometimes. Mostly all of that strives to conjure up an elusive, delicate pathway between drone and noise. Moreover, he/she uses a cogent practice, more concretely, mixing up artificial knittings with organic soundscapes. (By the way, using non-musical artifacts to make up soundscapes).