Ambient

  • Book Of Air Vvolk – se (in) de bos

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    Belgium’s granvat describes itself as a platform. “It’s a gathering of particles,” according to the organization’s website. “granvat works curator-based, and does not function like a record label. We love to create, produce and present original work and concepts. granvat is founded by Bert and Stijn Cools.” One of its major projects, dating back to…

  • Giant Skeletons – Guide to the Sunken Citadel

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    Nico Walser has produced a second volume in his “music of water, wood and bones” trilogy. Guide to the Sunken Citadel follows the March release of Ghosts of Forsaken Ships. These six new tracks have been described as both new classical and ambient. I hear a lot more of the latter, which is not to…

  • M. Geddes Gengras – Light Pipe

    I didn’t get much writing done this week. I spent most of it flat on my back, trying without much success to recover from what I’m calling the Thanksgiving flu. That’s an annual October tradition here in Canada during which we all go home, see our families and get sick. My first commute to work…

  • Alexandra Stréliski – Inscape

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    As is often the case, Alexandra Stréliski has had help in her rise to new-classical music prominence. The support came from close to home. Fellow Montrealer and film director Jean-Marc Vallée assigned her soundtrack work on his Dallas Buyers Club in 2013. They collaborated again, three years later on Demolition. In 2017, Stréliski’s contribution to HBO’s…

  • The Moderns ep. 20

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    Kevin Press

  • Mikael Lind – Strings and Clusters

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    This new recording from Reykjavik’s Mikael Lind is exactly what its title suggests. “I wrote lots of phrases for violin, viola and cello,” he explains in the album’s notes, “and had them recorded in such a way that they became building blocks for something larger. The next step was to put these phrases together in…