Posts Tagged Ambient
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August 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton: 4
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton 4 (Independent) Late last year – in fact it was December 30th, so, you know, pretty late last year – I reviewed The Heart’s Wash by Joshua Chuquimia Crampton. A beautiful album that spoke to the devastation of that year; a lost year, a stretched period of time. Crampton’s eerie, loping, looped […]Archive
July 27, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Erik Wøllo / Michael Stearns: Convergence
Erik Wøllo / Michael Stearns Convergence Projek Records I found this record recently in a beautiful fluke – well, a routine search for ambient/space records I guess. What a find. I knew Michael Stearns’ fine work – particularly his score for Baraka (and its ‘sister’ films). He made ambient electronic music in the late 1970s […]Archive
July 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Kodama 木: Moonlight and Rain
Kodama 木 Moonlight and Rain dreaming of distant worlds Evocations of nature were all through the debut EP by Kodama 木 (which I loved!) In fact I referred to it as feeling like “the soundtrack to a sci-fi or nature documentary-short that hasn’t been made yet”. And the same applies to full-lengther, Moonlight and Rain. Because it’s […]Archive
June 22, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Nathan Fake: Sanxenxo (ep)
Nathan Fake Sanxenxo (ep) Cambria Instruments Nathank Fake’s new EP is a set of jams and leftovers and shelf-sitters recorded either side of his most recent full-lengther, the excellent Blizzards. The excellent Sanxenxo brims with ideas, its opening, title tune unfolding through various glitches over seven minutes, taking in the buzzing, pulsing writhe of ambient […]Archive
June 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Facta: Blush
Facta Blush Wisdom Teeth Oscar Henson – who records as Facta – formed new label Wisdom Teeth during lockdown and releases Blush as his first pandemic release. A trippy, lush, relaxed set of ambient techno/ambient house grooves. Something akin to an aural bubble-bath. I’m no big dance-music head at all, but the ambient techno thing […]Archive
April 24, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Blanck Mass: In Ferneaux
Blanck Mass In Ferneaux Sacred Bones Blanck Mass is the solo project of Benjamin John Power. I never much cared for the group he founded, Fuck Buttons. Or, truth be told, Blanck Mass, until the extraordinarly soundtrack for the movie Calm With Horses. That music lives in my head most days and it sent me […]Archive
April 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Nathan Salsburg: Landwerk No. 2
Nathan Salsburg Landwerk No. 2 No Quarter Nathan Salsburg is all things to any sort of guitar-listener, a fine accompanist, he makes beautiful folk records of his own, he’s involved in a new “supergroup” of sorts – and – in and around all of that he’s moved towards making ambient records with his Landwerk project. […]Archive
April 18, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Neil Cowley: Hall of Mirrors
Neil Cowley Hall of Mirrors Mote For most of the last decade Neil Cowley was leader of The Neil Cowley Trio. A jazz unit that could turn on a dime, funky and sophisticated, always nodding to tradition but alive and exciting and no chance of nodding off when listening to them – there was hints […]Archive
April 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Tenderlonious: Tek-88 (ep)
Tenderlonious Tek-88 (ep) DAM Records Prolific producer and mult-instrumentalist Tenderlonious returns with an EP as love-letter to the Roland TR-808. Its cover is enough to get hip-hop heads, vinyl purists and studio boffins salivating – and is probably reason alone for the limited edition 12” vinyl to already be gone, long gone. Sold out just […]Archive
March 30, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Vinnie Colaiuta and Mark Isham: Hard Candy
Vinnie Colaiuta and Mark Isham Hard Candy A-Tone Recordings, an imprint of Extreme Music Vinnie Colaiuta is a master session drummer – from Sting to Herbie Hancock via Frank Zappa and Joni Mitchell – there’s almost no chance you’ve never heard his work. He’s playing those sizzling hi-hats on the them tune to the TV […]Archive
March 12, 2021 by Simon Sweetman