Latest Reviews
1: Falling Into The Sky (RM)
:THE CIRCULAR RUINS: If you're not already aware of Anthony Paul Kerby and his work as The Circular Ruins (among other projects) then I would like to draw your attention to his latest release, "Falling Into the Sky". Kerby has been making music for some time, and I would consider it to be some of the best in the ambient genre. His music has an intelligence and substance to it that I find very appealing, traits that are both readily apparent on "Falling Into the Sky".
2: Slow Promises (RM)
:THE WINTERHOUSE: "Slow Promises" by The Winterhouse is a new collaboration from Robert Davies and Anthony Paul Kerby of The Circular Ruins, and from my very first listen I can tell it's destined to become a classic in the ambient genre. Davies and Kerby have really connected with each other, creating a disc that references and draws from individual styles and themes, while simultaneously creating a unique identity for itself.
3: Blue Drawings and Text (AL)
:LARRY KUCHARZ: in part a kind sonic analogue of Mondrianesque minimalism and Reinhardtian reductionism, realised in shades of ambient blue
4: Timeless (AL)
:NUNC STANS: Timeless strikes an effective balance between the composed refinement of an older space music tradition and the grainier indeterminacy of contemporary experimental drone-ambient.
5: Sub Routine (AL)
:ENTIA NON: When a resonant synthesizer fragment is placed in a suspension of reverberant space, and the noise of something flapping, clanking or puttering is added, extreme ambience results.
6: Shadow Dreams (AL)
:ROBERT DAVIES: The movement of Shadow Dreams is characterised by a languorous suspension, as of dust captured in light rays.
7: Falling Into The Sky (AL)
:THE CIRCULAR RUINS: Falling into the Sky, overall, impresses as a substantial work of sonorous reflectivity imbued with a deep melancholy, nevertheless succeeding in enfolding within itself a glimmering luminosity.
8: Slow Promises (AL)
:THE WINTERHOUSE: Slow Promises strives to become a sonic envisioning of place, one that is meditative yet resonant, calm yet with traces of brooding, teeming with undercurrents beneath a surface stasis.
9: All Points North (AL)
:MANITOU: A set of evocative locative transmissions from New Ambient Kid on the Detroit Block, Manitou.