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Tag Archives: Ambient
F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm, Music For Wobbling Music Versus Gravity, 2013
Sonic Pieces label. Ambient style: instrumental, experimental, contemporary neo-classical folk. In additional to all the other instruments, on this recording we hear crumpled paper, rolling metal balls on ply-wood, a ping-pong ball in a wok, and a turning tin-toy carousel. … Continue reading
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F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm, Music For Lovers Music Versus Time, 2010
Sonic Pieces label. Ambient style: instrumental, experimental, neo-classical, contemporary, folk. This record is very experimental, and extremely difficult to describe. Besides the mainstays of piano and guitar as per Frahm and Blumm, prominently featured on a number of tracks are … Continue reading
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Jasmine Guffond, Yellow Bell, 2015
Sonic Pieces label Ambient style: drone, experimental. I would call this a ‘pretty’ drone album in that it’s restless and shifting, ‘experimental’ in the sense that the artist is constantly trying new things, not content to just let her tones … Continue reading
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Dictaphone, Poems From A Rooftop, 2012
Sonic Pieces label. Ambient style: Modern classical, instrumental – violin, guitar, sax, clarinet, bass. This is way more ‘modern classical’ than ambient, but it is absolutely gorgeous and quietly melodic, making clean, though minimalist use of woodwind, violin, drums and … Continue reading
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Midori Hirano, Minor Planet, 2016
Sonic Pieces label. Ambient style: modern classical, piano, hiss, presence, noise, static, synth, field recording. My general impression was one of the artist, a piano player, using her instrument as a means of astral travelling. The piano blurs into indistinct … Continue reading
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