Absolute respect to the estimable Ernesto Diaz-Infante for telling me about this noble cause. Foxy Digitalis has a nearly 3o-year track record, first as a xeroxed zine, and the in its current digital incarnatiom, of reviewing what I would rate as the absolute best of non-mainstream music. This compilation, featuring Continue Reading
Ambient
Floreana – Floreana One
I don’t do top tens, but if I did, this album might be EP of the year. It’s that good. Imagine early Brian Eno or Tuxedomoon with a sound updated for the 2020’s. Yes, these names are the ones I’m happy to drop for this release. From Floreana’s Bandcamp site: Continue Reading
Tomotsugu Nakamura – Moon Under Current
I’m new to both the work of Tomotsugu Nakamura and the label he released this album on, Teinei Records out of Japan. Moon Under Current is a gorgeously minimal piece of electronic ambient, perhaps a better name for the genre than merely ‘ambient’. I really like the lullaby-ish nature of Continue Reading
Rudy Adrian – Reflections On A Moonlit Lake
Rudy Adrian has been at the forefront of New Age music since the early 2000s, and shamefully, I lost contact with his releases. It’s quite nice to catch up with him on his latest release, a collection of relaxing ambient music to soothe your mind a bit, but also to Continue Reading
Alphaxone – Dark Complex II
Alphaxone are a Tehran-based project who put out profoundly deep and lush dark ambient music.
Jeff Gburek & Karolina Ossowska – One Moon, Many Shines
This is some of the best late-night listening I’ve heard in a long time. Neither Jeff Gburek nor Karolina Ossowska ever fail to please my ears, whether it be with a deep intellectual piece or compositions which teeter on the edge of being mournful, but this one deserves a special Continue Reading
Steve Roach and Robert Rich – Waves of Now
From the legendary duo’s Bandcamp site: “We present this soulful 30 year reunion between two stalwarts of Ambient-Electronic music in its entirety, exactly as it occurred. Steve and Robert answered the urge for unification after a very long orbit and 40 year friendship, reuniting and engaging their collective creative process, Continue Reading
Jeff Gburek – Oxygen is not for the Dead
Today is a travel day, so I leave you in the ever-capable hands of Jeff Gburek and one of his latest creations.
Scott Lawlor – Theotokos
As Orthodox are still going through the process of Advent, we share our second post of the year in honor of the Birthgiver of God (Theotokos), as composer Scott Lawlor has titled this 2019 release. Time flies, but great electronic and ambient music maintains its station.
Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang – Azure
Two masters of drone at their peak after two decades of collaboration. From the duo’s Bandcamp site: “Since beginning to work together as a duo in the early 2000s, Kang and Kenney have collaborated on sound installations, music for orchestra, choir, and mixed ensembles in addition to releasing numerous widely Continue Reading