Posts Tagged ‘drone’
It’s already dark and already cold. On my way home I bundle up, wrap my ears in headphones, and cover my head with a hood. Wind is trying to penetrate my sonic shell, but I got a stronger wind inside. Jannick Schou creates torrents of sound capable of silencing the gust. A strong tempest is growing [...]
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Tags: dark ambient, drone, noise
Welcome to our newly redesigned Sound Bytes column! Today we feature four thematic releases following a trajectory of sound and words through ambiance, minimalism, and drone. In this particular installment we went to focus your attention on a few fantastic labels - Slow Flow, Twice Removed, and Unfathomless. Segue Into The Fall Slow Flow Slow Flow is a [...]
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Tags: ambient, drone, minimal
It’s true… I wait until the sun goes down to listen to the second release from Black Swan. I listen to the music the way others watch the movies. Lounging comfortably in my chair, positioned perfectly between my studio monitors, their cones facing towards me, slightly tilted, completing an imaginary triangle. A glass of wine in [...]
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Tags: ambient, dark ambient, drone, experimental
Mix : A.P Headphone commute mix
Stockholm based Anders Peterson (A.P) is a sound designer, composer and an audio postproduction engineer, releasing music under a couple of aliases (relapxych.0, Skyscaper and Unknown caller). A.P also runs GS Mastering & Post, providing audio post solutions, and a record label called Ghost Sounds. For this exclusive Headphone Commute mix, Peterson selects a few [...]
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Tags: drone, experimental
Mix : riverrun – inspirations
Daniel Land has quietly descended on these pages with his ambient project, riverrun, at the end of 2010. His slow evolving explorations of sound in Pentimento drenched our studios in dense layers of sound, and a profound state of being. It seems that Land set off to create a record in a vacuum of influences. [...]
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Tags: ambient, drone
Infrequency Editions is a sub-label of Dragon’s Eye, the latter owned and operated by Yann Novak himself. The label was originally founded by Jamie Drouin and Lance Olsen, but after a brief hiatus, and introduction to Novak, it merged with Dragon’s Eye. Originally concerned with documenting live performances and sound installations presented through public concerts at a [...]
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Tags: ambient, drone, minimal
The following installment of Sound Bytes comes to us courtesy of Matt Leslie and his selections for Best of 2009. It only makes sense for us to revisit these gems before they get archived on the shelves of past releases. Don’t forget to preview the tracks, which I have embedded for your convenience. Listen and [...]
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Tags: ambient, drone, modern classical
Windy Weber & Carl Hultgren have been releasing minimal ambient and experimental post-rock music since the late 90′s. The catalog of this Michigan based husband-and-wife duo spans an eclectic selection of notable labels such as Icon, Ochre, Darla, Brainwashed, and of course, Chicago-based Kranky Records. Songs For The Broken Hearted is Windy & Carl‘s fourth [...]
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Tags: ambient, drone, post-rock
Toronto based Aidan Baker and Montreal based Tim Hecker pair up to deliver an abstract and experimental ambient piece on a Canadian Alien8 Recordings. Hecker is not a stranger to a noise-prominent label, having previously released Mirages (Alien8, 2004), and a re-issue of Radio Amor (Mille Plateaux, 2003). In addition, his ambient recordings have already [...]
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Tags: abstract, ambient, drone, experimental, noise
The fragmented world of random memories mixed by a disk jockey is one thing. An album is another. Listening to an album you always start at the beginning. You always start at track one. Dag Rosenqvist, under his moniker Jasper TX, opens up Black Sleep with a swell. It dynamically expands into a quiet drone, [...]
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Tags: ambient, atmospheric, drone
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