Ryota Horii. – Bitte Vergib Mir / Lost City

[bandcamp width=400 height=208 album=3177420047 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] “Bitte Vergib Mir -贖罪-” opens this EP, beginning with a droning bass tone, which is soon accompanied by a droning low voice patch, then what sound like restless whispering voices with lots of reverb on them. A synth string then plays a …

WHΛLTHISИEY – Immediathism

[bandcamp width=400 height=307 album=1583795971 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] WHΛLTHISИEY’s Immediathism starts with “Boredom”, as a reverb-laden minor-key melody interspersed with deep, but short bass notes plays with a lush pad that shimmers in and out slowly. The piano is not repetitious and there is some deve…

Whirling Hall of Knives – Ovoidulations

[bandcamp width=400 height=208 album=396180034 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] Ovoidulations begins, as a synthesizer which sounds like a synth string with a very long filter sweep on it plays a mid-frequency note that drones, and another note comes in and plays in harmony with the first note, which is followed by a synth …

Wonderful Beasts – The Art Of Whisper

[bandcamp width=400 height=472 album=2722906220 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] A foghorn-like synth with quite a bit of reverb plays while water-like static fades in, and then over this a brass-like short synth starts playing arpeggios in a chord progression, then stops, and quickly a pad takes over most of the mix. Then,…

Enearth – Daze

[bandcamp width=400 height=340 album=3410180263 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] Enearth’s Daze begins with “Intro: Time Zero”, which starts with quickly delayed beats which have a secondary delay effect on them for rhythmic effect. Over this, murky synth pads start accompanied by a repeating minor-key synth string an…

Ceylan – Le long murmure des siècles

[bandcamp width=400 height=307 album=2423897325 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] The first track of this EP, “L'existence est un songe”, starts out with a noisy drone that has a low-pass filter that progressively opens up more of the sound-spectrum as time goes on. The next track, “Le jeu des faux-semblant” begin…

Ardor – Wildflower of Nunavut

[bandcamp width=400 height=208 album=2013249217 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] Wildflower of Nunavut is a two track EP which starts out with “Saxifragga Oppositifolia I”, which begins with a mid-tempo two note repeating sequence that has a synth pad playing a slow melody under it. Then it is joined by a higher-pitched…

MASSS / Wasted Cathedral

[bandcamp width=400 height=241 album=1703887521 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] This is a split tape. One side and one song is done by MASSS, and the other side and two songs are by Wasted Cathedral. In “5 Chambers” by MASSS, a synth string drone starts and is sustained with a slight bit of filter modification provi…

Un Bosque Noruego – Gwahir

[bandcamp width=400 height=274 album=2588141255 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] The sound of synthetic wind blows as a voice and string-like synth fades in and gently provides melody, and then fades into a droning pad which slowly develops intertwined with the melody, which eventually stops, leaving a secondary melody which is…

Ars Sonor and The Implicit Order – The Prison of Souls

[bandcamp width=400 height=439 album=254077874 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 artwork=small] The Prison of Souls starts its first track "Level 01 - Inception" with a sad sounding ambience that comes fading in, accompanied by what sound like things that could have been voices at one time at the edge of the mix. Then, an instrument vague…