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"Long Days" starts out with synth brass playing underlying drones and a melody. The drones alternate between two notes, back and forth. Over this the melody develops, starting out simple and becoming quite complex. Another synth plays with the melody and the…
Tag: ambient
Jason Lescalleet – The Feckless Dreamer
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In this release, the first track is called “The Salmon Falls River”. In it, there is the sound of water flowing. Then, there are footsteps, a crash, the rustle of leaves, the cracking of twigs, but soon just the sound of flowing water remai…
Ingrid Plum – Dulme EP
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“Air” begins with the sound of symphonic music just at the edge of discernibility in the mix, and the sound of leaves rustling in trees can be heard. There is another rustle, and the wind picks up, rustling more leaves, then dies down again…
Blear Moon – Expanding lands
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Flute-like synths come in and are pitch modulated, playing almost playful melodies with quite a bit of delay. Low string-like melodies play as the low-end, repeating, evolving, and then moving toward simplicity again. The flute-like synths stop…
Hermann Holsgr – Virtuell Weltanschauung
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“Wissenfiniti” begins Virtuell Weltanschauung, and periodic noise is made resonant, with the resonance being moved across the frequency spectrum, first fast, and then moved out of the range of human hearing. A low-end of noise is brought in…
CV & JAB – Landscape Architecture
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The first track of CV & JAB’s Landscape Architecture, dubbed “Stone Circle”, begins with soft, reverb-laden piano playing, and then the clink of glasses can be heard. The sound of a car passing, and soon some birds chirping also accom…
Chris Child & Micah Frank – Tape Pieces Vol. 2
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As Tape Pieces Vol. 2 begins with the track “Distances”, a synth pad with a sustained major chord can be heard, with looping white noise in front of it. Soon, a bass drum being hit hard, then softly a few times, and then repeating this patt…
Accidental Tones – Disordered
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This release by Accidental Tones starts with “Untitled A”, and the sound of water dripping and flowing with reverb on it fades in, with a deep rumble present as well. There is the sound of something being tapped occasionally with a large am…
Orson Carroll – Here, Tomorrow, Here/Half Light
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This release by Orson Carroll, Here, Tomorrow, Here/Half Light, begins with a low, droning synth pad. A pad with a hint of bell harmonics plays, and there is a little bit of dissonance as the lower frequencies fight for space. The notes are not…
Jo Johnson – Knowledge of the Possible
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Knowledge of the Possible begins with “Haunted by the Legend of Better Days”, and the sound of noise, perhaps with some ring modulation, can be heard fading in slowly, then out slowly. A richly textured brass pad is heard next, as sustained…