From our friends at Mahorka Records via their Bandcamp site: “Philippe Petit approaches (Leonora) Carrington’s text as one would approach a signal coming from another frequency. Fragments. Resonances. Distorted transmissions. The acoustic cornet becomes a metaphor for listening itself: an instrument that amplifies what society prefers to keep inaudible.”
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Music For Sleep – In assenza
Andrea Porcu released a new album under his Music For Sleep moniker. It’s one 38-minute track which ebbs and flows like most of his music.
Various Artists – Arborescence: Bouquet Sauvage
This compilation, curated by the composer Aborescence, includes several of the leading lights of ambient music, including Robert Rich, Rudy Adrian, Alio Die as well as newer names (at least to me) like Robert Davies and Roy Mattson. From Arborescence’s Bandcamp site: “Bouquet Sauvage is a curated compilation comprised of Continue Reading
Francesca Marongiu – Still Forms in Air
Mexican record label Umor Rex has released an album by Italian composer Francesca Marongiu, which is heavily influenced by some spectacular Japanese New Age/Ambient releases from the mid-1980s. This was a wonderful time for ambient music in Japan, and Francesca captures the spirit perfectly while adding her own spin.
Alphaxone – ARCHIPENOM.II
From the Alphaxone Bandcamp site: “A continuation of fractured atmospheres, slow-moving tension, and submerged emotional weight. This chapter dives deeper into erosion, distance, and the quiet violence of time.” Iranian artists could use a hand at the moment, as do all good souls suffering in their war-torn homes.
Valgeir Sigurðsson – Architecture of Loss
Going through my archives, I came across a release from 2012 by an Icelandic composer named Valgeir Sigurðsson. I remembered that this was one of the first purchases I made on Bandcamp. 16,481 releases later, I can still come back to this release, a quite experimental one.
Yallahbibi – Desert Tales
Yallahbibi are, I’m guessing, from France but draw heavily on a mix of electronic and Arabic music which has been welded together with deep grooves.
Constanza Pellicci – Espacio Adentro de Una Perla
From Constanza Pellicci’s Bandcamp site, translated from Spanish: “A pearl falls from a fantasy necklace, a memory of dragons and reflections of a full moon. A buoy on a still lake, a spinning top in motion, enveloping. An eye without pupils that doesn’t see what it sees, inhabits a labyrinth. Continue Reading
Common Dream – Bats / Dags
Though I see no information anywhere about the band Common Dream, I can say that if it’s on Höga Nord Records, it’s going to have a nice, dubby, psychedelic vibe. This does not disappoint at all.
Marco Lucchi – All Day Long
A musician we admire here at the blog, Marco Lucchi, comes to us today with a new work where he uses a Buchla synthesizer, mellotron, and flute to create a very peaceful, almost proggish ambient album.